Melvin Martínez: Material Sensations and the Artificial Flesh of Color
By Barry Schwabsky
“Each writer creates his precursor,” wrote Jorge Luis Borges. “His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future”(365). Likewise with painters. And one reason why Melvin Martínez counts as a painter is that he is showing us, in a new way, why Jackson Pollock still matters. [...]
