Post by decoy1 on Jan 3, 2021 18:15:40 GMT -5
David Bunn Martine (Nednai- Chiricahua Apache/Shinnecock-Montauk) author of "No: Reservation: New York Contemporary Native American Art Movement" which documented the history of contemporary Native American artists in New York -performing and visual is an enrolled member of the Shinnecock and Montauk Nations with documented Nednai-Chiricahua Apache heritage.
Born in 1960 in Southampton, Long Island, New York, David Martine is Nednai-Chiricahua Apache and Shinnecock/Montauk from his mother Marjorie, a classically trained opera and concert singer. His father, Thomas Siklos is a Hungarian music director, pianist/organist and voice teacher. He comes from an artistic family for several generations. Living on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation. David absorbed the history of his heritage, both the ancient Algonquian cultures from the New England woodland as well as the Chiricahua Apache of Arizona and New Mexico. He has also studied music inspired by his father. His father, Tom Siklos, was awarded First Prize at age 19 in 1943 in a piano competition from the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Budapest, Hungary.
Martine has completed many mural and portrait commissions, book illustrations, large scale wood sculptures, and multi-media pieces. David’s earliest artistic influences were members of his own family. Later, he learned to appreciate the influence of distant relative Chiricahua Apache artist and sculptor, Allan Houser (Haozous), Norman Rockwell, the Wyeths and Spanish artist Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida. Martine’s work is based on narrative realism, sometimes bordering on impressionism.
David’s family history, learned from his grandmother by whom he was raised, is very rich. His Shinnecock/Montauk great-grandfather, Charles Sumner Bunn, was a master wood-carver of shore-bird decoys and was a professional guide and hunter. Charles’ father was a whaler who sailed around the world participating in the New England whaling industry which flourished in the early 19th century. David’s uncle was a commercial artist, wood-carver and photographer. David’s Hungarian grandfather, Arpad Siklos, was a famous architect who designed the Vatican Embassy in Budapest and was knighted by the Pope in the Order of Saint Sylvester.
His Chiricahua Apache ancestors participated in the Apache wars with the United States and Mexico. He is related to famous chiefs Victorio and Mangas Coloradas, and his grandfather, Charles Martine, Jr. was held a prisoner of war with Geronimo, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma until 1913. He attended Hampton Institute in Hampton, Va. One Apache great-grandfather was Chin-Chee, a warrior with Geronimo’s band who was killed before final surrender. His other great-grandfather, Charles Martine, Sr. was U.S. Army Apache Scout under Gatewood and Miles, who helped persuade Geronimo to surrender in 1886.
Martine began drawing and selling portraits of Indian chiefs, as well as sailing ships, and animals at an early age at the family’s gift shop in Southampton, New York. Later he began oil painting in high school, specializing in portraits, and murals. In college at the University of Oklahoma, obtaining a degree in advertising design, David studied many different disciplines – product design, painting, and sculpture and while at the Institute for American Indian Arts in New Mexico, studied jewelry making, sculpture, and museum science. After receiving a Masters Degree in Art Education from Central State University in Oklahoma, he taught for a time as an Assistant Adjunct Professor at Dowling College in Oakdale, New York.
Martine is a visual artist, educator and curator and has won the following awards: He is the recipient of : 2008 Joan Mitchell Award, Painting; 2012 Joan Mitchell Award, Curatorial; 2012 Andy Warhol Research Curatorial Fellowship; 2015 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Rauschenberg Residency
The pictures shown top to bottom, left to right are as follows:
Chief Joseph, oil on canvas, Ca. 1980's
Chief Red Cloud, oil on canvas, Ca. 1980's
Siki Toklanni, Chiricahua Apache woman warrior, oil on canvas, Ca. mid-2000's.
Shinnecock Man Ca. 1750, oil on Masonite panel, Ca. 1995
Jungle Road, Robert Rauschenberg Estate, Captiva Island, Florida, acrylic on canvas, Ca. 2015
Detail: Shinnecock Pawdawe (Whale hunt), oil on Masonite panel, Ca. 1995
Peaceful People Mural - oil on Masonite panel, Ca. early 2000's
Shinnecock Whale Ceremony, - oil on Masonite panel, Ca. 1990's
Detail: Woodland Cultural Period, Shinnecock cultural mural, oil on Masonite panel, 1998
New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, acrylic on canvas, Ca. 2915
Morning Prayer at Shinnecock, Ca. 1640, oil on Masnonite panel, Ca. 2000.
Detail: Paleolithic Cultural Period, Shinnecock cultural mural, oil on Masonite panel, 1998
Website: www.davidmartine.com
