About The Show

San Diego artist C.Martino takes a rye look at the Good Life in GREED: A Love Story, his new series of paintings, large scale prints and sculptural tableau giving the Wall Street set their due.

Welcome to Lux-landia, aka “The Land of the 1%”, where the cash is always greener, the sky is always sapphire, the deals are always bigger, and the next St. Bart’s cocktail is just a private jet away.

Trophy wife. Trophy life.

And those other 99%? So not in on the deal…

GREED Really IS Good…
The first 99 people through the door on opening night that whisper “Greed is Good” into the Devil’s ear will receive a free signed limited edition print.

About The Art

C. Martino is a San Diego based artist dedicated to transforming the mundane into the magical in an increasingly generic world of McMansions, mini-malls and bad reality TV. He is patiently waiting for his non-existent Trust Fund to fall from the sky.

Art @ Co-Merge is a quarterly art exhibition program featuring local San Diego and regional Southern California artists curated by Project X Art and hosted by Co-Merge Workplace.

Co-Merge Workplace is San Diego’s smart workplace solution, offering modern workspace rentals by the hour, day and month.

Project X Art is an art advisory and independent curatorial service focused on Southern California contemporary, alternative and underground art.

Long Beach-based artist JOHN CULQUI‘s illustrative style and work appeals to anyone who loves the Southern California culture and lifestyle. His illustrative style transports viewers into an endless summer of backyard bowls and local beach breaks where your next drop-in is always your best. The work featured in Ocean Size is inspired from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, other literary classics such as The Brothers Grimm “Fisherman Wife” and the 1962 Tom and Jerry cartoon “Dicky Moe”.

San Diego artist C.MARTINO showcases the latest additions to his ongoing “Surf Sacrifice” series of board-based surf shrines. tiki totems and broken board requiems. Utilizing the materials and ephemera of surf culture, the series seeks to create secular tableau’s of oceanic faith transformed by the mythic power of devotion to swell, tide and time.

Pop-inflected meditations on transience, transition and transformation – a visit to the places we find ourselves in between – after we’ve left “Here” and before we’ve arrived “There”.

Featuring collaborations with glass artist Lea de Wit of Lucky Stripe Studios.

“that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I was-I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I’d never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs,, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn’t know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn’t scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost” – Jack Kerouac On The Road

with secondary elements including murals, video, photography, furniture, decals, and found objects. Her imagery is both abstract and concrete: it draws on photographic images collected from mass media and her personal life, but is then abstracted through a high-contrast process that derives from her graphic design background. Scale is a crucial component in her installations, as it serves to reduce the constituent paintings and drawings to pure graphical-sculptural units in a bigger whole.