Martha Lewis
Primary Medium: Digital web-based
Other media: Drawing, Collage, Printmaking
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Email: marthawl (at) marthalewis (dot) com
Website: http://www.marthalewis.com
Artist Statement
My work explores the realm of inventions and inventors, borrowing elements from engineering diagrams, floor plans, patents, maritime charts and other types of informational drawing. These images get combined into sprawling hybrid constructs, using formats derived from religious diagrams such as Mandalas and Tantric drawings. Lately I have become interested in the worlds of micro and macro biology, and of genetic engineering. I have begun to invoke plant and insect forms, structures and surfaces, as my mechanisms mutate into something hovering between the organic and the constructed.
Other media: Drawing, Collage, Printmaking
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Email: marthawl (at) marthalewis (dot) com
Website: http://www.marthalewis.com
Artist Statement
My work explores the realm of inventions and inventors, borrowing elements from engineering diagrams, floor plans, patents, maritime charts and other types of informational drawing. These images get combined into sprawling hybrid constructs, using formats derived from religious diagrams such as Mandalas and Tantric drawings. Lately I have become interested in the worlds of micro and macro biology, and of genetic engineering. I have begun to invoke plant and insect forms, structures and surfaces, as my mechanisms mutate into something hovering between the organic and the constructed.
Selected Works
|  as-121 - 2009 - digital print on cotton paper - 11 x 17, - $300.00  as-521 - 2009 - digital print on cotton paper - 11 x 17, - $300.00 [Fundraiser]  as-621 - 2009 - digital print on cotton paper - 11 x 17, - $300.00 [Fundraiser]  Ultra-wide bandwidth time-hopping spread-spectrum impulse radio - 2009 - digital print on cotton paper - 17 x11, - $400.00 full title: Ultra-wide bandwidth time-hopping spread-spectrum impulse radio for wireless multiple-access communications |
Artist Bio
EDUCATION:
MFA 1993 YALE UNIVERSITY, School of Art
Painting/Printmaking
BFA 1987 THE COOPER UNION for the advancement of
science and art
Painting
EXHIBITIONS:
2009 THE WEEKEND INVENTORS, Artspace, New Haven, CT.
Curated by Liza Statton. Catalogue.
YARN THEORY, PS.122 Gallery, New York, NY. Catalogue.
ENDNOTES, O3 Gallery, Oxford, U.K.
Curated by Diane Jones-Parry & Annabel Ralphs.
DRAWN TO DETAIL, Decordova Museum Lincoln, MA.
Curated by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo. Catalogue.
2008 EXQUISITUDE, Geoffrey Young Gallery,
Great Barrington, MA.
ALLOPOLYPLOIDY, Pegasus Gallery, Middlesex College, CT. Curated by Matthew Webber. Solo Exhibition.
ROUTES, Parachute Gallery, New Haven, CT.
Curated by Debbie Hesse.
CONNCentric, Artspace New Haven, CT.
Curated by Liza Statton, Melanie Carr and Chris Joy.
2007 FOCUS: NEW HAVEN, Paper/New England, Hartford, CT.
2006 FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH, Hallway Project, PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY.
GO ON, DECEIVE ME, OVADA Gallery, Oxford, U.K.
2005 NEW FOR OLD, OVADA Gallery, Oxford, U.K.
OXFORD 2015: DREAMS, PLANS AND VISIONS, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, U.K.
A FILTER METHOD FOR THE NONLINEAR FEASIBILITY PROBLEM,
Tricycle Gallery, London, U.K. Solo Exhibition.
2004 REALM OF DESIRE WITH BEINGS OF GROSS FORM, OVADA Gallery, Oxford, U.K.
Solo Exhibition.
2004 THE OXFORD SHOW, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, U.K.
Curated by Andrew Nairne and Miria Swain. Catalogue.
2003 MARTHA LEWIS: RECENT WORKS, Grains Nobles, Luxembourg.
Solo Exhibition.
2002 OOPS ART, The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA.
Curated by Clayton Spada.
FREEWAYS & ARTERIES, Henley Galleria, Chapman University, Orange, CA.
1999 URGENT MESSAGES, Saddleback College, Mission Viejo CA.
Curated by Karen McGuire. Catalogue. Solo Exhibition.
MOVING TOWARD THE MILLENNIUM, Barnsdall Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
Curated by Adriano Pederosa.
1998 ITINERARIES, The Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA.
Curated by Dorrit Rawlins. Solo Exhibition.
1997 MARTHA LEWIS: PAINTINGS, The Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University,
Orange, CA. Curated by Maggi Owens. Solo Exhibition.
1995 Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA.
Curated by Dan Cameron.
1996 TRANS/INTER/POST: HYBRID VISIONS, Fine Arts Gallery, University Of California,
Irvine, CA. Curated by Pamela Bailey.
GARBAGE BINGE The Emerson Cultural Center, Bozeman, MT, Pend Oreille Arts Council, ID.
Boise State University Gallery, ID. The Art Museum of Missoula, MI. Catalogue.
1993 MFA THESIS EXHIBITION, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT.
RESIDENCIES:
2004 Ovada Residency, Oxford, U.K.
Kids@Art grant, Oxford, U.K.
Artist-in-Residence, SS. Phillips and James School Oxford, U.K.
1997 The Floating Storefront Studio Residency, Irvine, CA.
1993 The Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France.
COMMISSIONS:
1995 Lobby and Lunchroom Artwork, Pacific Packaging Corp., Wilmington, MA.
Works done in collaboration with architect Beth Sigler.
GUEST LECTURES:
2008 Decordova Museum Lincoln, MA.
2004 OVADA Gallery, Oxford, U.K.
2000 Kala Bhaven, Viswa Bharati University, Shantinikitan, India
Sponsored by The American Center, Calcutta.
1999 Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA., USA
1997 Orange County Contemporary Arts Association, (OCCA), Irvine, CA.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
2009 YARN THEORY, PS. 122 Gallery, New York, NY.
1996 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/ THE FACTS ARE IN, PS.122 Gallery, New York, NY.
Co-curated with gallery director Susan Schreiber.
TEMPORARY COLLECTIONS:
Flatfile, Pierogi 2000 Brooklyn, NY.
Flatfile, Artspace, New Haven, CT.
The Viewing Program, The Drawing Center, New York, NY.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY, Orange, CA.
NUFFIELD COLLEGE, Oxford, U.K.