DEBORAH MARTIN
(American, b. 1961)
(American, b. 1961)
ABOUT
Deborah Martin is a contemporary American Painter based in Southern California's Mojave Desert. Her artistic work examines the complexities of individual experience particularly in relation to home, isolation and memory.
Martin's stark landscape paintings often feature marginalized communities located on the fringes of American society. Her series "The Slabs: The Last Free Place in America" documents the community that has formed around the abandoned and decommissioned concrete slabs of the World War II barracks of Camp Dunlap. In "Back of Beyond" Martin immortalizes a 21st century desert struggle against destruction.
Martin's figurative work exists in the same realm as her landscapes. "Portraits of Autism" explores the relationship and impact autistic children have within their immediate family. Using visual art, this body of work creates a platform for social awareness while opening up a discussion about available support systems, funding and housing for both children and adults diagnosed on the Spectrum.
Martin's work has been shown and is included among the permanent collection of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM), Provincetown, MA. She is a recipient of the Orlowsky Freed Foundation Grant sponsored in part by PAAM (2011) and a finalist in the shortlist of seventy for the 2018 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London. 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's stark landscape paintings often feature marginalized communities located on the fringes of American society. Her series "The Slabs: The Last Free Place in America" documents the community that has formed around the abandoned and decommissioned concrete slabs of the World War II barracks of Camp Dunlap. In "Back of Beyond" Martin immortalizes a 21st century desert struggle against destruction.
Martin's figurative work exists in the same realm as her landscapes. "Portraits of Autism" explores the relationship and impact autistic children have within their immediate family. Using visual art, this body of work creates a platform for social awareness while opening up a discussion about available support systems, funding and housing for both children and adults diagnosed on the Spectrum.
Martin's work has been shown and is included among the permanent collection of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM), Provincetown, MA. She is a recipient of the Orlowsky Freed Foundation Grant sponsored in part by PAAM (2011) and a finalist in the shortlist of seventy for the 2018 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London. Martin received her BFA and BS Masters of Arts in Teaching, Art Education from The Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University.