Please join Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art for an opening reception honoring an exhibition of new painting and sculpture by Enrique Martínez Celaya. The exhibition will be on view through February 29th, 2020.
Enrique Martínez Celaya is a Cuban born artist, author, and former scientist. His work has been exhibited in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., and the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, among many others, as well as for institutions customarily outside of the art world, including the Berliner Philharmonie, the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York, and the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery in Berlin. His work is held by major institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford. He received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics and a minor in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, and a Master of Science with a specializa- tion in Quantum Electronics from the University of California, Berkeley. He published scientific papers on superconductivity and lasers, is the inventor of several patented laser devices and completed all coursework for his doctorate and a significant part of his dissertation before he decided to devote more time to art. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and earned an MFA with the department’s highest distinc- tion from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an Artist Advisor at the Ander- son Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado. On top of his staggering accomplish- ments, Martínez Celaya is the first person to hold the position of Provost Professor of Humanities and Arts at the University of Southern California.
