Abstract painting of people with exaggerated features dancing or celebrating, with a swirling blue background and red accents.

Works on paper

Abstract artwork featuring blue, white, and earthy tones with a black and orange line drawing of a vase or container with some orange squiggly lines at the bottom right.
Framed child's drawing on white paper with black and red crayon, depicting an animal, likely a fish, with a fish tail, mouth, and fins. Signed 'G. Star '23' at the bottom right corner.
Close-up of a distressed, painted wooden object with a light blue color and visible wood grain and imperfections.

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A B O U T

Gaspar Martinez has a painterly tendency to couple energetic, gestural mark-making, bold line work, vibrant palettes, sparely textured surfaces, and variably quirky compositional choices with a quietly humorous, subtly critical sense of curiosity. His subjects of playfully abstract representation have been figures and things, places and rooms, objects real and imagined, and formal riffs on explorations of color and geometric abstraction. Tension between recognition and abstraction—how a familiar object, figure, or space can become slightly unfamiliar, awkward, or absurd. Drawn to the possibility of finding beauty and pleasure in unlikely places. Everyday objects, spaces, gestures, and fragments of experience can become starting points for paintings that move between the familiar and the imagined.

Solo Exhibitions
2026 S.O.S. Save Our Souls, Ambidexter Gallery, Art Show: Galeriler Buluşması, Istanbul
2023 Martínez/Martínez: Recuperar lo Sagrado, Phuyu Gallery, Buenos Aires
2022 Nausea, Ambidexter Gallery, Istanbul
2016 Jardín del Espolio, Cosmocosa Gallery, 2016, Buenos Aires
2014 Industrial Expressionism, Consulate General of Argentina, New York

Group Exhibitions
2026 Abra & Cadabra, Ambidexter Gallery, Istanbul
2025 Entre dos tierras, Phuyu Gallery, Buenos Aires
2025 Ambidextrous Group Show V, Ambidexter Gallery, Istanbul
2023 Dogs, Dogs, Dogs, Ambidexter Gallery, Istanbul
2023 Ambidextrous Group Show IV, Ambidexter Gallery, Istanbul
2023 Verano, Phuyu Gallery, Buenos Aires
2022 Confluencia, Phuyu Gallery, Buenos Aires
2021 ShopiGo Art + WU WU YALIKAVAK, Bodrum
2014 Legends Anew, Centotto Gallery, New York
2012 Nurture-Art Benefit Show, Charles Bank Gallery, New York
2012 Archivos (E), El Mirador Gallery, Buenos Aires

Art Fairs:
2026 S.O.S. Save Our Souls, Ambidexter Gallery, Art Show: Galeriler Buluşması, Istanbul
2024 Art Show: Galeriler Buluşması, Ambidexter Gallery, Istanbul
2024 1703 Art Fair, Ambidexter Gallery, St Petersburg
2023 Contemporary Istanbul, Ambidexter Gallery, Istanbul
2023 ArtVerona, Ambidexter Gallery, Verona
2023 1703 Art Fair, Ambidexter Gallery, St Petersburg
2023 CI BLOOM – Contemporary Istanbul, Ambidexter Gallery, Istanbul
2022 Art Weeks Akaretler, Ambidexter Gallery, Istanbul
2022 Contemporary Istanbul, Ambidexter Gallery, Istanbul
2022 CI BLOOM – Contemporary Istanbul, Ambidexter Gallery, Istanbul
2021 Contemporary Istanbul, Ambidexter Gallery, Istanbul
2016 ArteBA, Cosmocosa Gallery, Buenos Aires