Donald Martiny makes single-color works in polymer medium and dispersed pigment that free themselves from the traditional painting support to form large brush strokes directly against the wall. They are paintings made exclusively out of paint. In many aspects they present a formal mix of Roy Lichtenstein’s brush stroke paintings, Lynda Benglis’ knotted wall pieces and Ellsworth Kelly’s shaped monochromes, but with an attenuated physical presence all their own. Martiny’s high relief flirts with sculpture, yet his working method and his conceptual focus ground these works firmly in the principles of fundamental painting. Martiny, who currently lives and works in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, studied at the School of the Visual Arts and The Art Students League in New York, New York University and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His work is in private collections in Philadelphia, Washington DC, Amsterdam, San Francisco and Los Angeles.