Eddie Martinezs Risky Business, New York Close Up, Art21

Why would an artist change his signature style after proven success Walking the graffitifilled streets of his Greenpoint neighborhood and working in his nearby Williamsburg studio, Brooklynbased artist Eddie Martinez discusses the motivation to shift his paintings from Poplike figurations to pared down abstractions. An active graffiti artist in his teens and twenties, Martinez describes both the allure and difficulty of graffiti s inherent riskiness, and reveals how his work now is an equally risky ende