Christina Catherine Martinez
Christina Catherine Martinez is a writer and stand up comedian from Los Angeles CA, covering art, fashion, literature, visual culture, and all the slippery convergences between them. Her work has appeared in VICE, ArtForum, ArtSlant, NYMag, and The Art Book Review. She produces the monthly comedy talk show Aesthetical Relations, and is at work on a book about fashion blogging through the lens of art history. She can be found at galleries, open mics, hiking trails, and thrift stores across the city.
More by Christina Catherine Martinez
Love and Information :: An Interview with Illustrator Adam Villacin
12.15.16 — Comic book history & zine culture are the main inspirations for Adam Villacin's stippled, almost storybook style of illustration that tends to favor the book and tee shirt as potent,...read more
Dream Logic :: An Interview with Artist Aaron Elvis Jupin
07.29.16 — Aaron Elvis Jupin's paintings stop just short of cohering into a picture, drawing parallels closer to dream logic & memory, taking cues from beloved childhood classics like the storm scene...read more
Swarovski Hoops & Stained Glass Backboards in Victor Solomon's "Literally Balling"
03.18.16 — "Solomon’s backboards celebrate the pomp of unbridled athleticism; altars to the church of basketball, sacred in their own right yet archly courting the very spectacle of desecration that inspired them."read more
How Artist Sterling Bartlett's Work Evolved & Burst Into Color
03.10.16 — Sterling Bartlett felt trapped by the very visual syntax he created... He began to experiment with pigment again, and in total about-face, Bartlett’s practice burst into color. read more