OPENING RECEPTION
JULY 19TH 7-10PM
At
the intersection of memory and disintegration lie the homes and built
structures of the "Narrow Lands" - an architectural geography of history
and time along the Outer Cape.
Along
this thin spiral of land and water, the shifting sand and silt and
spray create inexorable change in natural terrain - a relentless force
of transformation that likewise erodes, reclaims, and reconstitutes the
people and structures of Provincetown.
In
the series titled "Narrow Lands", Martin explores the decomposition and
erosion of built structures on the Outer Cape - homes that have been
historically maintained, as well as those abandoned for reclamation or
by sale of the land. These poignant and often haunting images are the
premise for Martin's oil paintings.
Martin's
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 an allusion.
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