Artist Daniel J. Martinez provokes religion, politics to incite insight

Published on September 27, 2012

Daniel Joseph Martinez has a question, or, rather, he wants you to have one. Well-known as one of the art world’s favorite provocateurs, the Los Angeles native and resident has brought his unique brand of art-as-conversation-piece to Culver City’s Roberts & Tilton Gallery for his first L.A. gallery exhibition in a decade, “I Am a Verb.” But why is Martinez, a non-Jewish artist, getting coverage in the Jewish Journal? Well that’s simple, really; one of the works he made for the show is a series of photos of a hunchbacked, masked man with the Shema tattooed on his chest, along with a Muslim prayer inscribed in Arabic on one arm and a Catholic prayer in Latin on the other.

Arts in L.A. Quarterly Calendar: Cultural events through Feb. 2009

By Dikla Kadosh and Lilly Fowler
Published on December 10, 2008

Arts in L.A. Quarterly Calendar: Cultural events through November 2008

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin
Published on September 11, 2008

Arts in L.A. Calendar June—August

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin
Published on June 12, 2008

Religious riot act, deaf in Africa, small sculptures, kid paint

By Dikla Kadosh
Published on September 27, 2007

Sculpture? It’s a Klapper! Ballet in Bel Air

By Danielle Berrin
Published on August 23, 2007

Scene and Heard

Creativity for a cause

By Robert David Jaffee
Published on May 3, 2007

Esther Netter, CEO of the Zimmer Children's Museum, speaks with infectious enthusiasm about her museum's upcoming exhibition, "Show & Tell: The Art of Harmony," which opens Sunday, May 6.

7 Days in the Arts

By Keren Engelberg
Published on July 13, 2006

7 Days in the Arts

New Sculptures Debuted

By Gene Lichtenstein
Published on February 17, 2000

Sculptures by two prominent local artists are now on permanent display.