Zed Martinez

zed martinez is an indianapolis-based painter and photographer. drawing from influences in post-modernism, dada, and the occasional brush with tenebrism, zed uses absurdity, sarcasm, and conflicting views on bombastic imagery versus subtle metaphor to wrestle with ideas of sexuality, sexualism, commercialism, religion and identity in an increasingly complex world made of thousands of disparate micro-cultures.


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of sexy girls, fetuses, and monocles. part 2.

monday august 30th 2010, 23:36
Mixed Sketches

Part 1 of this series is here. So, last time I started talking about my current slump, and my decision to look backwards to the time when I was at my most productive,and I gave a bit of the important history lesson about my girlfriend at that time, Whitney. This time, we’ll move on more

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updated flickr photostream, more black-and-white

monday august 30th 2010, 10:03

Sorry everybody, had some issues where the photos uploaded via Lightroom had some reason decided they weren’t publicly viewable despite being marked as public. Very, very weird. Here are some shots from last night, just made myself get out and shoot a whopping 512mb card (about 29 shots), and decided to constrain myself to black-and-white.

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of sexy girls, fetuses, and monocles. part 1.

sunday august 29th 2010, 14:47
Rebellious Portrait With Teacup. Me and Whit.

OK, so, I’ve been promising a return to the insightful, autobiographical work-in-progress feel I set out to accomplish with this blog, and I think we need to start with a little trip down memory lane. In my college days, when I was a younger Zed, I dated a lovely gal by the name of ‘Whitney,’

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