Daniel Joseph Martinez at Simon Preston Gallery

Daniel Joseph Martinez, A Story for Tomorrow in 4 Chapters, Dostoevsky Loved the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Muhammad Ali & Dandelions, Lick My Hunch!, archival pigment print with UV finishing coating, 2010-2012.
Daniel Joseph Martinez, A Story for Tomorrow in 4 Chapters, Dostoevsky Loved the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Muhammad Ali & Dandelions, Lick My Hunch!, archival pigment print with UV finishing coating, 2010-2012.

Never one to shy away from controversy, Daniel Joseph Martinez’s latest body of work at Simon Preston Gallery features a hunchbacked figure in a Pope’s mitre, praying on an Afghan prayer rug, and tattooed with ‘blasphemous inscriptions in Hebrew, Arabic and Latin’ (according to the gallery handout).   Is this social commentary or overkill?  (Through Dec 23rd.)