Sandra Martinez’s symbolist works on paper are intuitive and meditative. Taking inspiration from surrealists, her process begins with loose contour drawings that can be read as abstracted human, plant, and shelter forms.
Gestural washes with a minimal palette build up in the work. Some areas are rubbed, erased, cut, collaged, or laden with dirt. The resulting surfaces range from sparse to thick. Sometimes they develop into a weaving design, sometimes not.
Her work on her father’s books continues, along with her use of Hogarth Monograph pages, Dante’s Inferno, German periodicals and whatever else happens to appear as a gift or by chance as in Tyvek, which she paints on for her larger works.
Torrent is the first work on the Dictionary for Boys and Girls.