Art Hound

Paintings by Enrique Martínez Celaya who I discovered on BOOOOOOOM. I think it’s fascinating that Celaya studied physics and electrical engineering, even earning a PhD at Berkeley, before going on to become a painter.

“Enrique Martínez Celaya has long treated landscape as a site of soulful reckoning… (In his new paintings) fields of poppies, glistening snow and clusters of birch trees chronicle shifting subjective conditions: yearning, loss, solitude and, more rarely, a longing for communion.

Several (of these paintings) feature a young, androgynous figure, a lone journeyer emblematic of the artist’s own itinerant path from his native Cuba to Spain, Puerto Rico and ultimately the U.S.”  – Leah Ollman Art In America

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