Sarah Martin

6pm Breakfast,

(2020)

4’x 3’

oil on  canvas

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Why Not Try It All,

(2019) 4’x 3’

oil on canvas

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Road Block,

(2020)

film photograph

Fast Food After Funeral, (2020)

4’x 4’

oil on canvas

Diptych/Wrapped,

(2018 - 2020)

film/digital photograph

Game #1,

(2018)

4’x 3’

oil on canvas

Game #2,

(2020)

5’x 5’

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oil on canvasFall,

(2020) 2’x 5’

oil on canvas

Balance

(2020)

film photograph
 

Happy Birthday Sarah (1995, 2000, 2002, 2019-2020)

video

My artwork incites tension through themes of balance and failure. Painting,photography, and video allow me to create scenes which display a grim and lonely elegance using both objects and figures in a place. Within each medium I create scenes which exude a heated expectation. Win, or lose... fall, or balance. Move, or get hit. Do something, or do nothing. I am interested in capturing both chaos and a structural///structured composition.

My use of dark colors in painting and black and white film photography convey dull emotion. After printing on glossy paper, my photography exhibits a richer atmosphere. When printing a photograph on a larger scale, the imagery is able to mirror my large scale paintings. I prefer to paint big because magnitude emphasizes importance. This way the viewer can place themselves with the figures, feel what they feel, share the experience.

With video, I create colorful and chaotic claymation characters illuminated through sound effects and filters. By mixing short scenes of clay animations with real footage from my life, a meaningful juxtaposition is formed; as well as a connection to my painting and photography. These videos explore relationships with ideas of tension, a fever dream montage based on anxiety of failure.