Artist Quotes:

“I’ve always embraced a means to open debates, as part of a method to allow art to become an active agent of the possibility that ideas can infect our daily lives, and this usually leads to some form of controversy in the work.”  Daniel Joseph Martinez interview with Phong Bui

Additional Links:

Daniel Joseph Martinez interview with Phong Bui for The Brooklyn Rail. March 7^th, 2008.
In this interview, Martinez discusses his inspirations and his art work from his early youth to the present.

• http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/03/art/daniel-joseph-martinez-with-phong-bui

Frieze review of The House America Built.
A review of Martinez’s sculptural installation that delves deeper into the themes, symbolism, and allusions that Martinez is making in this work

• http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/daniel_joseph_martinez/