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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

KOBALT GALLERY presents NARROW LANDS- DEBORAH MARTIN 7/19-30


 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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