Mark Anthony

bob ross is standing in front of a painting ALT: bob ross is standing in front of a painting

EXACTLY.

Damn— I just came up with a COOLER idea than I sent to the previous proposal 😰

Oh well. Next time. Next proposal… 🙂‍↕️

Not to make it seem as tho we live in a VACUUM — no pun intended.

Everywhere I go is in crisis. It’s suffocating.

Twenty years ago, I was an intern working in this room.

Fast forward to today and now I’m working with an intern of my own - working in the same office!

One time one of my managers accidentally texted me this:

Open hours for “WE’RE IN THE INDUSTRY”

I should be reading 🥹… 📚

Draft text: Artist statement: Throughout history the institution has served as a double edge to the artist and their practice. It is at one moment; instrumental to the cultivation of an audience of an artist’s body of work, a place of preservation to care for works so that they may be enjoyed for generations, and at times, even an educational space. The institution can also be a source of frustration to the individual working artist. Where, from the outside looking in, an artist may regard these spaces as arbitrarily exclusive. Pretentious venues which merely launder the image of inequities exacerbated by the wealth-criminals who own them. Meanwhile from the inside; when an artist comes to serve the institution, as an employee – the museum can very well snuff out any creative ambition left in the employed. Short of unionizing these spaces – I illustrate my personal frustration with the institution. Here, I picture the moment that the object of desire; paid for with countless years of: education, networking, internship, onsite training, astronomical debt and personal sacrifice – becomes the object of repulsion. After the dream job sours and the work place becomes a suffocating toxic mess – where does one go? The moment one realizes that a museum/cultural/non-profit job is just a job – you begin to realize you have more in common with your fellow worker as a laborer. When you realize, your labor is all you actually own. As an artist, the only choices left are despair or radicalization. Maybe – I’ll continue in these spaces but maybe together, we can forge better opportunities.

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“Here, I picture the moment that the object of desire; paid for with countless years of: education, networking, internship, onsite training, astronomical debt and personal sacrifice… After the dream job sours and the work place becomes a suffocating toxic mess – where does one go?”

I’m in this:

Fortune cookie fortune that reads “Be glad for those around you.”

I feel like I was just talking about this…
Found in yesterday’s fortune cookie.

I’ve lived this life before

INTERLOPER GALLERY: we’re a real gallery not a FAKE gallery.

I APPLIED TO THE 2026 CAM PERENNIAL. ✨

I need to focus more on the people that do show up and focus less on the people who don’t ✨😌✨🥹✨✌🏽

The Audience Grows Closer and Farther A Review of Mark Anthony Martinez's grasping at straws exhibition at INTERLOPER GALLERY

Btw — have you read the review of our last exhibition?

Isabel Servantez’ take on “grasping at straws” a Mark Anthony Martinez solo show

Yesterday, I applied to the 2027 Artpace residency.

It’s the first time I’ve felt confident enough to apply! I already want to apply to more residencies ✨🥹

“I’m having a bean & cheese.”

If you can't get the highest score, maybe you can get the mostest score. SPACE HOLE also has leaderboards for your other records and accomplishments!

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Do people still use Flickr? Need a spot to host web quality images for future embedding onto webpages

Being less critical of yourself [in studio] is HARD.

Hey folks. I know we close kinda early and it might be hard for some folks to make it in, but just wanted to say we are available by appointment too. Just DM us if you wanna come outside of regular hours. We don’t mind at all and live very very close so it’s no trouble.

xoxo
Management

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I’M STILL SELLING MERCH (from my recent exhibition)!!

Prints for sale at my friend’s shop 🖤✨

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“SANGWISH”

Mark Martinez is artist and educator from San Antonio, Tx. He’s got an MFA from Portland State University and his BFA in Intermedia from PNCA. Martinez is active participant within the local community, curating for local art entities.

(Submitted to OLLU new employee survey)

Parking pass procured for the NEXT gig…

UPDATED ROSTER RIGHT HERE✨✌🏽
I’d like this become a series tbh.
Next one being MIJO/X — MIJX/O.

My curatorial model is one of a scaffold. Building with help, from the ground up bc all the ladders have been pulled up.

As an artist. Especially, one who jumped through the hoops of art school, has an MFA and in astronomical amounts of debt. It bums me out to see family unironically sharing AI slop.

JFC I WISH YALL WOULD JUST GO TO A FUCKING MUSEUM. They have FREE DAYS.