Born in Havana and raised in Miami, E. Vincent Martinez is an Atlanta-based artist, filmmaker, gallery owner, magazine publisher, and educator and self-proclaimed optimist. After debuting a documentary in 2022 at Tryon International Film Festival (TIFF), he and his husband decided to open an art gallery in the town, called Mirrorball Gallery. Martinez also runs fashion-oriented online publication Fashionado, where his writings on fashion, culture, life and style can be read. E. Vincent Martinez's abstract-expressionist collection, "The Fragmented Floral Series", at Gallery Anderson Smith emphasizes the fractal and transcendental aspects of flowers, through ideas of absence and presence. Instagram: @e.vincentmartinezfashionado.net