Enrique Martinez Celaya

Enrique Martínez Celaya (born June 9, 1964) is a contemporary American painter, sculptor, author and former scientist whose work has been exhibited and collected by major institutions around the world.[1] He trained and worked as a physicist, completing all coursework for his doctorate, before devoting himself full-time to his artwork. He holds master's degrees in physics and fine arts and has authored books on art and philosophy as well as scientific articles. He is currently a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, and the Provost Professor of Humanities and Arts at USC.

Enrique Martínez Celaya
Celaya in 2020
Born (1964-06-09) June 9, 1964
Palos, Cuba
EducationCornell University (B.S. 1986)
University of California, Berkeley (M.S. 1988)
University of California, Santa Barbara (M.F.A. 1994)
Known forPainter, sculptor, author, educator
StyleContemporary
Spouse(s)
Alexandra Williams
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(
m. 1999; div. 2015)
Websitemartinezcelaya.com

Early life and education

Martínez Celaya was born on June 9, 1964, in Palos, Nueva Paz, Cuba.[2][3][4] His family relocated to Madrid, Spain in 1972. While there, he took up drawing at the age of eight.[4][5][6][7] In 1975, the family relocated again, this time to Puerto Rico.[6] He initiated his formal training as an apprentice to a painter at the age of 12 and developed his early interest in writing and philosophy.[8]

In 1982 he enrolled at Cornell University.[4][6] He graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics and a minor in Electrical Engineering in 1986.[3][4] He was selected as a Regent's Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and earned a Master of Science degree with a specialization in Quantum Electronics[6] While there, he patented several laser devices.[3][4][5][6][9] He later enrolled in the M.F.A. program at the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated with highest honors in 1994.[3][4] After graduation, he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.[4]

Work

Martínez Celaya uses familiar and accessible images such as a boy, a girl, a unicorn, birds, deer, a dog, a sunrise or a seascape pursue a deeper order of experience that lies beneath appearances and beyond our intellectual grasp that resembles moments of childhood astonishment and wonder at the world's radiance. His work draws from the prose of Jorge Luis Borges, Herman Melville, and Lev Tolstoy; the poetry of Paul Celan, Osip Mandelstam, Harry Martinson, and José Saramago; the philosophy of Schopenhauer, Martin Heidegger, Hegel, and Ludwig Wittgenstein; the paintings of Velasquez, Caspar David Friedrich, and Ferdinand Hodler; Kurt Schwitters's Hanover Merzbau; the social practice of Joseph Beuys and Paulo Freire; the films of Andrei Tarkovsky; and the music of Bach.

About his interest in literature, Martínez Celaya states, “Reading is a primary source for my work." I read philosophy and literature and that is the universe I see my work in, even though I'm a visual artist. ... Often when artists talk about writers, they're talking about them as source of content. I'm reading them for a moral stance in the world.”[10]

Martinez Celaya writes a popular blog on his website, with a selection of entries published as The Blog: Bad Time for Poetry (Whale & Star, 2010). The University of Nebraska Press published a twenty-year survey of his writings in 2011, entitled Collected Writings and Interviews, 1990-2010; and Martínez Celaya published a selection of lecture notes from his popular workshops, entitled On Art and Mindfulness (Whale & Star, 2015), in collaboration with the Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass, Colorado.

Martínez Celaya founded Whale and Star in 1998, an imprint that specializes in art and its relationship to other intellectual and creative fields, especially literature, philosophy, and critical theory. The University of Nebraska Press serves as Whale and Star's primary distributor.

Academic positions

Martínez Celaya is currently Provost Professor of Humanities and Arts at USC (2017–present) in Los Angeles and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College (2014–present).[11][1] He was the Roth Family Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth (2016-2017).[12] He was Visiting Presidential Professor in the history of art at University of Nebraska (2007–2010), and an assistant professor of art at Pomona College[4] and the Claremont Graduate University, (1993-2003).

In 2010, Martínez Celaya inaugurated The Lecture Project, funded with assistance from the Knight Foundation. The original programming presented lectures from academics and art critics until late 2012. In 2019, in collaboration with USC Dornsife The Lecture Project was re-launched and is currently hosting programming from Martínez Celaya's Los Angeles Studio.[13]

Awards

Martínez Celaya was awarded the Brookhaven National Laboratory Fellowship (1986–1988), and was Interdisciplinary Humanities Fellow and Regents Fellow from the University of California (1992–94). He received Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Young Talent Award (1998), the Hirsch Grant (2002), the Rosa Blanca Award from the Cuban Community (2002), and the California Community Foundation Fellowship, Getty Foundation Award (2004). He was honored with the Inaugural Colorado Contemporary Arts Collaborative Artist Residency at the CU Art Museum, sponsored by Kent and Vicki Logan (2004), and received the Anderson Ranch Arts Center National Artist Award (2007).[1]

Personal life

Martínez Celaya married Alexandra Williams in 1999. They have four children together. They later divorced in 2015.[2][5][14] Martínez Celaya lives and works in Los Angeles, California.[15]

gollark: To be fair, Knights Whatever were Xeon Phi and now cancelled, I think. But still.
gollark: Intel: making perfect sense all the time™™™.
gollark: If you think the SHA-whatever support is bad, look at the weird Venn diagrams for AVX-512!
gollark: Yes, Krist has a lot of inequality since mining rewards were 50 times higher a few years back.
gollark: Depends who else is mining.

References
  1. "CV - ENRIQUE Martinez Celaya" (PDF).
  2. Williams, Christian (June 11, 2006). "AN EVER WIDER WORLD / Enrique Martínez Celaya". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  3. "ENRIQUE MARTÍNEZ CELAYA". Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  4. Harth, Marjorie. "Portrait of the Artist: Enrique Martínez Celaya". Archived from the original on September 10, 2005. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  5. Finkel, Jori (November 21, 2008). "Layers of Devotion (and the Scars to Prove It)". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  6. Gonzalez, Gaspar (December 2005). "The Escape Artist" (PDF). Boca Raton. Boca Raton, Florida. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  7. Trueblood Brodzky, Anne (1999). Unbroken Poetry: The Work of Enrique Martínez Celaya. Whale & Star Press. p. 26.
  8. "BIOGRAPHY - ENRIQUE MARTINEZ CELAYA". www.martinezcelaya.com. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
  9. Contact laser delivery probe, retrieved 2019-04-05
  10. "Enrique Martinez Celaya's 'Notes From the Anderson Ranch' | AspenTimes.com". The Aspen Times. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  11. http://news.usc.edu/122273/artist-enrique-martinez-celaya-named-first-provost-professor-of-humanities-and-arts-at-usc-dornsife/
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-06-30. Retrieved 2016-06-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. "ABOUT". The Lecture Project. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  14. Greenwood, Chelsea (November 2009). "Art of Conversation" (PDF). Boca Raton. Boca Raton, Florida: 118–123. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  15. Slenske, Michael (April 5, 2015). "The Prophet: Can Enrique Martínez Celaya Be That Guy?". Archived from the original on July 10, 2015. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
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