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Gloria Martin
323-663-2443
glomarart@gmail.com
I’ve always been immersed in making art. I remember at eight years old getting a miniature oil painting set and happily painting away. At fourteen, I was accepted at the famous High School of Music and Art, where I seriously busied myself in both painting and sculpture. I was one of two students accepted at the fabulous Cooper Union, an excellent scholarship design school in New York. I learned there the skills that I’ve carried into all my artwork.
After choosing Los Angeles to start our journey, my architect husband Al, designed us a Neutra like house in Silver Lake. We both worked constantly building it ourselves and this was before Home Depot existed! It wasn’t until my third child was five that I was able to return to my path in art. I could then renew my passion for creativity in two and three dimensional expression with the fortunate opportunity of having my own ceramic studio. I was soon producing wall sculpture-paintings, where the subject matter rode on the abstract form. The wheel offered the hollow forms, constructed into animal and human wheel thrown pieces to make contemporary sculpture.
Following a referral phone call, I had the opportunity to create large sculptures, carving giant-size heads, animals and fantasy objects for the floats that take part in the yearly Pasadena Rose Parade extravaganza. During the next eighteen years I contributed to this performance art celebration, while at the same time juggling my own artistic endeavors with my teaching activities in Ceramics and Sculpture.
Always interested to learn new techniques and explore other dimensions, I also joined a program demonstrating computer art at the then Museum of Science and Industry.
I was mesmerized by all the expanding possibilities of creativity that this method offered. Whereas, working in sculpture brought me to a finite three dimensional form, the computer’s tools released me to explore different aspects of the painting: color, design, value, approaches, and happily with the freedom of ‘save’ and ‘undo’. Working with an electronic board and stylus, I saw my artwork spring to life visually on the monitor screen. Programs like Painter, Photoshop and Illustrator offer a vast selection of tools, effects and functions to create a painting. I can be painting in ‘brush’ – choose the size, texture, opacity, medium, and select from the whole spectrum of thousands of colors. When I work on the computer, I am focused on creativity. I feel that I am mixing and adjusting in the same way as I would in any other medium.
The paintings displayed on this page are printed on kinwashi textured rice paper. I find it very challenging and innovative to explore the complexity of computer art functions. The merging of my design style and computer process creates a new and original dimension. It is exciting to direct this art expression -- like a conductor orchestrating a whole new creation.
Exhibitions
2008-2004 Viva Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
2008-2002 *Twentieth (Sculpture Exhibit) Los Angeles, CA
2005 Fine Arts Factory, Pasadena, CA ** 2005-2004 LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
2005-1997 Village Square Gallery (Sculpture Exhibit), Montrose, CA
2004 Brand Library Art Gallery, Glendale, CA ** 1999 Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA
1999 Pacific Design Center (”Future Space” - Sculpture Exhibit), Los Angeles, CA
1998-1996 LA County Art Rental, Los Angeles, ** 1994-1990 LAART (Sculpture Exhibit), Encino
1993 LAART (Sculpture Exhibit), New York, NY ** 1993 DA Gallery, Pomona, CA
1990 Westside Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ** 1990 Museum of Science & Industry, L.A.
1987 Warner Art Center, Woodland Hills ** 1984 Village Artisans (Sculpture Exhibit) Montrose, CA
(more exhibitions in previous years)
Gloria Martin is a member of Women Painters West
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* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist