It uses a combo of matte and glossy plastics that give it a nice two - tone style, although it's forever annoying how much
glossy surfaces show dust and smudges.
Not exact matches
As they ask for information about potential adoptive families they like, they're given
glossy brochures and
shown videos that look like they'd been produced for TV — they hear about people's favorite colors and foods, but aren't able to learn anything beyond
surface information.
Dust just does not
show up on this type of
surface - unlike the
glossy blacks that look perfect in the
show room, but somehow never quite look clean in the street.
However, the
glossy surface, which is made of durable Corning Gorilla Glass, is a fingerprint magnet and
shows lots of imprints when held up to a light source.
He
shows his range in these later works gleefully inventing and exploiting new spaces in the picture plane: 1951's Every Atom Glows: Electrons in Luminous Vibration is a delicate black - and - white oil painting, while his Alabama II, 1969, is a strong protest work — a rectangular field of red in which a triangular wedge evoking bodies marching or a megaphone's amplified language emerges in
glossier red on the painting's
surface.
His solo
shows include A New Commission for an Old State at Edith - Ruth - Haus, Oldenburg (2016); Proposal for a Porn Company, Galpão VB Associação Cultural Videobrasil, São Paulo (2016); Painter on a Study Trip, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2016); It's Never Too Late to Talk About Love, Nile Sunset Annex, Cairo (2014); When Meanings Face
Glossy Surfaces, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo (2010) and I Never Wanted to Be Alone in a Room, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2010).
His solo
shows include A New Commission for an Old State at Gypsum Gallery (2018) and Edith - Ruth - Haus, Oldenburg (2016); Proposal for a Porn Company, Galpão VB Associação Cultural Videobrasil, São Paulo (2016); Painter on a Study Trip, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2016); It's Never Too Late to Talk About Love, Nile Sunset Annex, Cairo (2014); When Meanings Face
Glossy Surfaces, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo (2010) and I Never Wanted to Be Alone in a Room, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2010).
At this
show, his second one - person outing at Bodega, expect new work by Martin that showcases his skill for meticulous detail channeled onto
glossy surfaces.
The one knock I have is that the
Show's
glossy surface kicked back a lot of reflections in brighter settings, and blacks started to wash out at wider angles.
There's still a camera bump too — this is easily remedied with a case, but for those wanting to
show off the new
glossy rear of the phone it increases the chance of damage when you place it on a flat
surface.