APOCALYPSE: SCIENCE & MYTH

April 22, 2023-September 22, 2023

Artist in Residence Suzette Marie Martin is a figurative painter based in New England. She uses allusions to mythology and the narrative potential of body language, combined with data, symbols and text, to confront the existential trauma of ecological decline and intensifying climate crises. Martin’s archetypal figures, enmeshed within layers of scientific documentation, embody gestures of emotional and physical distress, and acknowledge the cognitive anxiety of information overload. Martin's practice, rooted in drawing and developed in series, is informed by topical research, observational studies and art historical reference. Layers of gestural marks, opaque passages and translucent washes reveal Martin’s working process of describing and obscuring elements of figuration, text and abstraction.

Read the Inside UMass story here.

Read RoE Fellow, Hannah Gould’s interview with Suzette here.

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