KOBALT GALLERY presents
DEBORAH MARTIN
NARROW LANDS
With Poems by Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut
JULY 4-15, 2014
RECEPTION JULY 4, 7-9PM
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| 574, 2014 Oil on canvas, 36x36, N.Truro, MA |
Kobalt
Gallery is pleased to present NARROW LANDS new work by Deborah Martin
with poems by Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut. The Artist will present new
paintings as part of the ongoing series "Narrow Lands." Los Angeles
poet Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut will present accompanying poems inspired
by Martin's paintings.
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 of 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 by
nature or by sale of the land.
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 allusion.
