Martha Skinner creates drawings that are spaces and performances –playfully subverting and transforming issues through works emerging as celebrations of life. At Lamplight she’ll be weaving herself into a drawing within a drawing of drawings – a durational performance in collaboration with light, space and the visitors to the sliver of space as a series of participatory performances.
Learn more about her Community Making Sessions here!
Artist Statement:
I create drawings that are performances, installations, products. Playfully subverting and transforming issues that need addressing through works emerging as celebrations of life.
From inhabitable to wearable, drawings as vehicles for connection. Transforming the world one drawing at a time. Playful, inspiring, transformative.
I wait and work with the light and some days I make the light.
Drawings you hang in your home.
Drawings I inhabit and you experience.
Drawings we inhabit and create together.
Drawings you take wherever you go.
From immersive and participatory to tiny and personal. Connection.
My life is a drawing. I am the drawing. The drawing is my process.
Biography:
Martha Skinner, born in Colombia, is an international multi-media artist. With a Masters in Architecture & Urban Culture, her career as an artist, researcher, professor and public speaker spans 25 years.
Martha converses with our built environment through visualizations of the cycles of life to address temporal, social and environmental issues of our delicate ecology. She utilizes this methodology in her work to filter, transmit, capture, and commemorate the intangible qualities of the passing of time with playful representations of the relationships between humans and the environment in which they are situated.
Martha’s work has been recognized by various awards and internationally-recognized publications and exhibitions.
Highlights of Martha’s career include:
- 1999 Walter B. Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan
- Creator of Notation A/V, a seminar about the merging of drawing and moving image and creator CiTy- SCAN, The City as Bodies in Movement (body of research), and 10^10, The Exponential Power of Design
- TEDx speaker (2015): The Exponential Power of Design
- Creator of several Living Maps of cities which include NY A/V, a moving document and installation on Broadway Street (acquired by the NY Historical Society, and featured in the book “Installations by Architects” and as part of an international travel exhibition. Also received Best of Category Award from Concept Category of ID Magazine.
- Professor at Clemson University (2001-2014) & founding partner at field office (1997-2010)
- Exhibitor at 10th Venice Biennale, 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam & Black Mountain College Museum, {Re}Happening and NFT Liverpool
- Five awards from I.D. Magazine, & a Next Generation Award from Metropolis Magazine
- Receipt of a People, Prosperity and the Planet Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
- 2nd prize – Sun Shelter Competition.
Martha lives in Marshall, NC.
