DEBORAH MARTIN
Artist Statement
Deborah Martin initiated her formal training as a painter while attending the Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston. Her artistic work examines the complexities of individual experience particularly in relation to home, isolation and memory. Much of her practice emerges in collaborative conversation with writers and poets, taking form through exhibitions and publications.
In her recent series The Slabs: The Last Free Place in America, painter Deborah Martin turns her attention on the community of Slab City located outside of Niland CA on the Salton Sea. Slab City takes its name from the concrete slabs that remain from the abandoned World War II Marine barracks of Camp Dunlap. The site is both decommissioned and uncontrolled, home to year round slabbers and snowbirds in the winter months.
Martin's work has been featured in numerous publications including Art Ltd., Palm Springs Life Arts+Culture, Angeleno Magazine, Palm Springs Life Magazine, Provincetown Arts, Biller on Art / LQAF, AEQAI, Art Week LA, Fabrik, Building Provincetown and New American Paintings Magazine.
Martin received her BFA and BS Masters of Arts in Teaching, Art Education from The Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. She is a recipient of the Orlowsky Freed Foundation Grant (2011.)
In her recent series The Slabs: The Last Free Place in America, painter Deborah Martin turns her attention on the community of Slab City located outside of Niland CA on the Salton Sea. Slab City takes its name from the concrete slabs that remain from the abandoned World War II Marine barracks of Camp Dunlap. The site is both decommissioned and uncontrolled, home to year round slabbers and snowbirds in the winter months.
Martin's work has been featured in numerous publications including Art Ltd., Palm Springs Life Arts+Culture, Angeleno Magazine, Palm Springs Life Magazine, Provincetown Arts, Biller on Art / LQAF, AEQAI, Art Week LA, Fabrik, Building Provincetown and New American Paintings Magazine.
Martin received her BFA and BS Masters of Arts in Teaching, Art Education from The Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. She is a recipient of the Orlowsky Freed Foundation Grant (2011.)
