Donald Martiny

(b. 1953, Schenectady, NY) Currently lives and works in Ivoryton, CT. He studied at the School of the Visual Arts, The Art Students League in New York, New York University and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Museum exhibitions include the FWMoA, Courtauld Institute of Art, Alden B Dow Museum of Art, Falmouth Museum, and the Cameron Art Museum. Donald’s work is in the permanent collections of the One World Trade Center in New York City; the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA; the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, TX; the Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA; the FWMoA, Fort Wayne, IN and the Lamborghini Museum in Bologna, Italy as well as the Grahm Gund Family Foundation, Cambridge, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV; The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, City of Pont de Claix, France and Los Angeles International Airport. “Donald Martiny’s work forces us to question the established definitions which form the backbone of our understanding of painting as both a pursuit and a product, and of paint as a medium. In challenging the viewer in these ways, it is not only visually exciting but intellectually invigorating.” — Professor Deborah Swallow, Märit Rausing Director, The Courtauld Institute of Art