C.MARTINO is a Southern California artist working with a variety of materials (metal, paint, found objects, wood, alternative materials), a multiplicity of themes and diverse styles to create compelling works of contemporary art exploding with the color, energy and vibrancy of life lived with body, mind and soul wide open.
After receiving his MBA from San Diego State University, he found life crowded with business strategy sessions, client meetings, and long, painful commutes as a business process consultant with Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting...yikes!) before discovering and unleashing a passion for art and the act of creation.
From humble beginnings toiling late nights in a dilapidated downtown San Diego studio, Martino has become a serious full-time artist whose works serve as visual documentation of the emotion and energy characterizing a hidden Inner World seething just beneath the ebb and flow of everyday life.
His unique style and commitment to constantly exploring new themes, subject matter and techniques has garnered a dedicated corporate and private clientele who prize the inventiveness and thoroughly modern quality of his work. Martino currently divides his creative time between the creation of themed collections of work and custom commissioned work for private collectors, restaurants, clubs and companies.
A founding member of The Attic artists collective, Martino remains an active participant in San Diego's emerging art scene. IN an effort to expand the reach of his art, he has also opened a studio workspace in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles.
Martino's work hangs prominently in offices, homes, clubs and restaurants throughout the region. He looks forward to many years of pushing the envelope with engaging work that challenges, excites and inspires. When he isn't creating new work in his studio, Martino can be found designing brand identities as co-owner of strategic communications consultancy Project X Media, surfing the reefs and beaches of north county San Diego, playing guitar in the splatter-punk band Big Dollar Bill, and writing strangely skewed screenplays with minimal commercial appeal.
C. Martino : Exhibitions History
Solo and Two-Person Shows
2002
Terra Incognita Playa Gallery
Anonymous Basile Gallery
2001
Apocalypse Pastoral Debra Owen Gallery
Blue Water (Myth and Legend) Belly Up Gallery
You Should Have Been Here Yesterday...
Municipal Gallery Solana Beach CA
2000
Lounge Stories Basile Gallery
Heavy Water Sumatra Gallery
1999
Acts of Creation Basile Gallery
Shaken, Not Stirred The Onyx Room
Spirits in the Material World MIXX
1998
Groping.4.Luna Gallery X
BELLY UP Monthly Showcase Belly Up Gallery
TECHNICOLOR STATIC Basile Gallery
SCIENCE (A Work in Progress) Gallery X
Group Shows
2002
Keep Abreast ModART, New York, NY
9-11-01: Never Forget San Diego, 911 Art
2000
Art Alive 2000 San Diego Museum of Art
Enter | Viewing | Dimensional Annex Gallery
1999
Sony Artwalk Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego CA
Mixed Media @ the Hilton Torrey Pines La Jolla CA
1998
SONY ARTWALK Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego CA
1997
Period Spring Exhibition The Attic Studios
Period Summer Exhibition The Attic Studios
1996
New Visions '96 La Vae Gallery
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