RELEVANT REVIEWS BY SIGNIFICANT ARTS ADMINISTRATORS
DAVID HOYT JOHNSON, DIRECTOR, PUBLIC ART PROGRAM, TUCSON-PIMA ARTS COUNCIL
“as a “public” artist, she has used images and implements from industry to create nonfunctional aesthetic forms that delight viewers of all ages. Her work as a visual artist has evolved and matured in a visionary manner. Although she works in several media, her design vocabulary is consistent and engaging across media. She finds and extracts from quotidian experience forms of intrigue and beauty.”
PETER BIRMINGHAM, DIRECTOR AND CHIEF CURATOR, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA MUSEUM OF ART
“I have seen her art evolve from nearly two-dimensional relief assemblages of fired clay tiles modeled with brooding life-like intensity. Eventually her sculpture became public scale but somehow just as private in feeling – although with a touch of style and humor added to the mix. Two of Martin’s earlier sculptures in Tucson, done with pipes “discovered” in a California sewer pipe factory, certainly demonstrate her joy in discovery of new material as well as new ideas.”
FRAM KITAGAWA, PRESIDENT, ARTFRONT GALLERY, TOKYO
“Martin’s latest work in Japan, STARGATE, at Queen’s Square, Yokohama.has an organic form and a sense of modernity and refreshing feeling in the usage of colors. It gives us soft and humorous impressions as a whole, and displays all the characteristics of her work. Martin can expand possibilities of whatever materials she works with, especially ceramics, in terms of its flexibility and sensitivity.”
TAIZAN NAGAI, CURATOR AND DEPUTY DIRECTOR, THE UTSUKUSHI-GA-HARA OPEN AIR MUSEUM, NAGANO, JAPAN
“She builds bridges between East and West.”
