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Deborah Martin is a Los Angeles-based contemporary realist painter, fine art photographer and curator. A site-specific artist, her work eulogizes the abandoned habitats...
Deborah Martin is a Los Angeles-based contemporary realist painter, fine art photographer and curator. A site-specific artist, her work eulogizes the abandoned habitats and domestic landscapes of small town America. Much of her practice emerges in collaborative conversation with writers and video artists, and takes form through exhibitions, installations and publications.
She is recognized for several pivotal bodies of work: Narrow Lands (Provincetown, MA), Home on the Strange (Salton Sea, CA), and America (U.S.). A catalog for her Home on the Strange project was published by Catalysis Projects in Spring 2010.
Deborah has exhibited in galleries and Museums in New York, Provincetown, Boston and Los Angeles. Her work has sold in auction at Sotheby’s and been featured in distinguished fine art magazines including the Fine Art Photography Publication of Light Leaks Magazine, Blue Canvas Magazine and the Pacific Coast West Edition of 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. Martin is one of the four core artists of CATALYSIS PROJECTS.
"Martin’s noirish and oddly poignant images offer a hauntingly intimate elegy for small town American roadsides, refracted through a grim cataract of muffled sunlight, dusty colors, and bleached, exhausted exposures. Her vacant neighborhoods suggest a peaceful, bucolic apocalypse in which human abandonment is perhaps as much blessing as curse.
Her work dwells within a compositional formality – a visitor’s sidewalk stance that captures the essentially public vista of driveway, yard, front porch – yet her portraitist’s eye conjures an emotional complexity nearly operatic in scope: within the silent, vacant architecture, human drama seems to exist more powerfully in allusion."
--Quintan Ana Wikswo
 
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maandrade
Posted: August 23, 2010
great work
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jjz
Posted: July 15, 2010
The scenes are rendered with such restraint in palate and subject matter, yet despite their empty and abandoned quality, somehow manage to avoid hopelessness or despair. Nicely done.
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tirui
Posted: May 01, 2010
GREAT!!!!!
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samvelmarutyan
Posted: March 26, 2010
GREAT...
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mecharcoal
Posted: March 10, 2010
Your images are powerful stories, told in such wonderful subtle tones. Great work!
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samvelmarutyan
Posted: March 04, 2010
GREAT!...
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uptonparkman
Posted: January 23, 2010
fantastic work,your studies are so real like, you have great vision,congrats on a great gallery.
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kurde
Posted: October 28, 2009
so sad work
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sambrown
Posted: October 13, 2009
These remind me of some of the landscapes and structures I've seen when driving through rural Texas way out to where my parents live.....wonderful images!
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marisa
Posted: October 07, 2009
Wonderful gallery !!!!
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marysa
Posted: September 30, 2009
Great !!!!
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mfortune
Posted: September 30, 2009
Wonderful work!
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sanchezisdead
Posted: September 29, 2009
very much! in love with you work!
cheers
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soufflet
Posted: September 07, 2009
Nice like Hopper, great :::
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elizabethmcghee
Posted: September 06, 2009
Wonderful work- it has a real surreal feeling :-)
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justinyun
Posted: September 01, 2009
Lovely gallery
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bondolou
Posted: September 01, 2009
Good to meet you, Deborah. Your work is lovely. We like the open road too. I see so many paintings I relate to.
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jimmy
Posted: September 01, 2009
Love it!
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scott
Posted: July 28, 2009
HI Deborah! It is great to see your works here! I really like your style!
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scott
Replied: September 30, 2009
Congrats on the feature Deborah!!!
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scott
Replied: March 10, 2010
I really love your work Deborah. Keep me up to date as to whats next my friend.
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