"Rocket from Norway" Norwegian Marble Sculpture by Santa Fe Artist, Carlo Ray Martinez
Item Number: 105
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
This powerful sculpture of Norwegian Marble mounted on a red marble base soars into space and will land in the home of the highest bidder. 1.5 months went into the making of this striking transformation of gorgeous stone. Artist Carlo Ray Martinez, used both hand and electric tools to complete this work. He loves the matrix of this particular piece of marble, and chose the triangular shaped base for the literal and figurative stability.
"Each new piece of stone talks to me," he said in a recent phone interview. He particularly enjoys sculpting in this medium because of the the millions of years of history and evolution each piece of rock possesses and he can then he can complete the process by altering the work of nature with his own imagination and hands.
Artist, Carlo Ray Martinez is a true Renaissance man who has traveled and lived many places: Japan, Venezuela, Canada, Mexico and has lived in many of the art meccas in the United States, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, San Diego, Santa Fe.
He is an honorably discharged US Air Force Veteran who went on on to earn two Associate degrees in Media Arts at the Santa Fe Community College. He works in video, oils, watercolor, gauche, acrylic, stone and metal. He has shown at the Bond House Museum, Santa Fe Indian Market, Wheelwright Museum, Primitive Edge gallery, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, AIHEC first prize sculpture 2012, Santa Fe Contemporary Hispanic Market 2013. Combined with studio arts, Martinez also creates with digital video, graphic and 3-D design. He attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M., where he graduated in May, 2013 with a BFA in New Media. Integrating all mediums available to him, Martinez has found a calling in the merging of technology and art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOmjC9vmM3E
Carlo Ray Martinez has shown at The Paredolia Gallery in downtown Santa Fe at the Plaza Galeria, 66-70 East San Francisco Street Suite 10, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501.
The work's dimensions: 8" X 34" X 4.5" + the triangular base sides are 13 "x 13" x 15" with a one inch height. ( Total height=35".)
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