Daniel Joseph Martinez, I use to eat lemon meringue pie til I overloaded my pancreas with sugar and passed out: It seemed to be a natural response to a society of abundance, Los Angeles, 1978 Daniel Joseph Martinez’s first of two consecutive shows at Simon Preston Gallery was reviewed by Holland Cotter in the New York Times last week. The show, I want to go to Detroit: Cheerleaders CHEER, features two series of photographs taken at a bodybuilding competition and a beauty pageant, both in Southern California. The exhibition is open through October 28th.  Martinez’s second solo exhibition of new photographs and a sculptural sound installation, I am a verb I traded the future of humans for a caramel frappuccino, there will be blood, shame, pain and ecstasy, the likes of which no one has yet imagined, will open at Simon Preston Gallery on November 4, 2012. 

Daniel Joseph Martinez, I use to eat lemon meringue pie til I overloaded my pancreas with sugar and passed out: It seemed to be a natural response to a society of abundance, Los Angeles, 1978


Daniel Joseph Martinez’s first of two consecutive shows at Simon Preston Gallery was reviewed by Holland Cotter in the New York Times last week. The show, I want to go to Detroit: Cheerleaders CHEER, features two series of photographs taken at a bodybuilding competition and a beauty pageant, both in Southern California. The exhibition is open through October 28th. 

Martinez’s second solo exhibition of new photographs and a sculptural sound installation, I am a verb I traded the future of humans for a caramel frappuccino, there will be blood, shame, pain and ecstasy, the likes of which no one has yet imagined, will open at Simon Preston Gallery on November 4, 2012. 

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