Join artists Eddie Martinez and Dan Nadel, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawing and Prints at the Whitney Museum, at The Drawing Center for a conversation celebrating the launch of Eddie Martinez: 20 Years of Painting, published by Monacelli.

The artist’s first comprehensive monograph surveys two decades of energetic, improvisational painting. It traces the development of Martinez’s expressionist canvases, raw and refined, bold yet intimate, which move freely between abstraction and figuration while engaging with the art history that precedes them. New essays by Dan Nadel and Ross Simonini sit alongside Martinez’s own anecdotes about some of his most personal paintings. 

Martinez’s association with The Drawing Center spans a decade and includes the solo exhibition Eddie Martinez: Studio Wall (2017–2018), for which he papered the gallery with thousands of drawings, hanging larger drawings and paintings over them to show the connections across his practice.