Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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Patrick Martinez reflects on their art practice examining Los Angeles's shifting landscape and sites of personal, civic, and cultural loss.

To learn more about the exhibition, please visit:
lacma.org/art/exhibition/grounded

Featured artwork:
Patrick Martinez, Fallen Empire, 2018, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, anonymous gift, © Patrick Martinez, Michael Underwood

The battle mural of Cacaxtla, courtesy of Proyecto la Pintura Mural Prehispánica en México, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Mosaic mask, Mexico, Maya, 300–600 CE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, anonymous gift