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Jel Martinez (b. 1976) is a Cuban American artist whose paintings are inspired by the methodology of vandalism removal. Martinez’s background in graffiti, as an original member of the Ink Heads Crew, is seen in each of his studio pieces which depict how metropolitan clean-up crews destroy one art form while creating another. Martinez’s paintings are a recreation of multilayered walls that are seen in urban landscape. His painterly gestures incorporate concrete elements, acrylic, enamel, oil, compound and ink, creating overlapping styles of free-floating patches of color. Through his elaborate …