Martha Dunham
USA (United States)
http://www.marthadunham.com
Kunstart: Skulptur
Technik: Bronze
Stil: Minimal / Konzeptkunst
Vita / Lebenslauf:
The self is a mystery so close we can nearly touch it. Yet truly knowing who we are is so ungraspable, that over the course of our lives we can lose and find ourselves again and again. The conundrum of identity is both personal and political, biological and spiritual. It is the soft tissue at the cutting edge of technology, the human voice that cries out for justice, the individual consciousness awake in the world.
"In her sculpture..., Martha L. Dunham has given form to the enigma of identity in a strikingly physical way. ... The bronze whorls of the fingerprint create a kind of screen, through which the viewer looks. The piece can be seen from either side, and brings the world seen past it into play."
Dunham has created sculpture whose rich metaphoric implications begin with the fingerprint itself. A signature of the bodily self, its pattern of ridged loops, arches, and whorls are unique to each individual. The fingerprint has been used to identify a person by the individual marks they leave or to register one�s identity with the authorities. As personal as the fingerprint is, it is a sign of our common humanity existing beyond all defining categories.
In the hands of Martha L. Dunham, the fingerprint takes on a poetic resonance. She began with an anonymous fingerprint, enlarged it, and saw in its complex branching curves something both specific and larger than an individual self. And she saw how this image might celebrate the work [of those], who devoted [their] life to peace...
The form of Dunham�s sculpture with its maze-like lines alternating with corridors of space recalls a labyrinth, in whose endless turnings a hero risks losing his or her way. The ancient symbolism of the labyrinth intimates that at its center lies a darkness and a mortal danger, which if transcended can yield spiritual liberation. Dunham�s sculpture is paradoxically a labyrinth whose openness invites both light and hope to enter. The fingerprint stands like a gate, drawn with bronze in space for our imagination to pass through, realizing as it does the tenuousness of each individual existence, and the significance of that singular identity to the whole matrix of life. - John Mendelsohn
Education:
Brown University, Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 1993
University of South Florida, M.S. Zoology 1988
Universität Tübingen, 1984
Duke University, B.S. Zoology 1983
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
Exhibition History:
2022 littleSCULPTURE Show, Kearny, NJ
2020 COCA Members Show, Seattle, WA
2019 COCA Members Show, Seattle, WA
littleSCULPTURE Show, Portland, OR
2018 COCA Members Show, Seattle, WA Group Show
2017 Dendroica Gallery Seattle, WA
CORE Gallery, Seattle, WA Group Show
COCA Members' Show, Seattle, WA
2016 City Hall, Seattle, WA Group show -- "Eclectic Collection"
Dendroica Gallery, Seattle, WA
COCA Members' Show, Seattle, WA
2015 Dendroica Gallery, Seattle, WA
2014 17th Annual International Sculpture Exhibition, Peace Arch Park, Blaine, WA
6th Annual Sculpture Exhibition, Jewish Community Center, Tucson, AZ
City of Shoreline Gallery, Shoreline, WA
2013 Annual Sculpture Garden Exhibition, Jewish Community Center, Tucson, AZ
James and Janie Washington Foundation, Seattle, WA (Residency)
2012 Annual Sculpture Garden Exhibition, Jewish Community Center, Tucson, AZ
Extraordinary in the Everyday, Fremont Abbey, Seattle, WA
2011 Ghost Gallery, Seattle, WA
Seattle Sculptor's Guild, Art/Not Terminal, Seattle, WA
2010 Trapeze Retrospective, Georgetown Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival, Silver Spring, MD
National Audubon Society Christmas Auction, Seattle, WA
2009 OK Hotel Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 4710 Art Foundry, Seattle, WA
108 Occidental Avenue, Seattle, WA
ArtsLaunch, Seattle, WA
2007 4710 Art Foundry, Seattle, WA
2006 Ninth Annual Sculpture Exhibition, Big Rock Garden Park,
Bellingham WA. Voted Best of Show by jury.
2005 Eighth Annual Peace Arch Park International Sculpture
Exhibition, Blaine, WA
2004 Delight Hamilton Gallery, Seattle, WA
Northwest Fine Woodworking, Seattle & Bellevue, WA
2003 Delight Hamilton Gallery, Seattle, WA
Northwest Fine Woodworking, Seattle & Bellevue, WA
2002 Northwest Fine Woodworking, Seattle & Bellevue, WA
First Saturdays at Trapeze Studio, Seattle, WA
2001 Metropolitan Museum of Art performance, New York, NY
Smith Tower Windows, Seattle, WA
Group Show, Grand Central Arcade, Seattle, WA
2000 Solo Show, Trapeze Gallery, Seattle, WA
1999 HorseHead International Sculpture Project, Seattle, WA
Group Show, J.E.M. Studios, Seattle, WA
Group Show, Artspace, Seattle, WA
Group Show, Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997 Group Show, Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Seattle, WA
First Thursday Art Walk, Dunham Studio, Seattle, WA
1996 Art in Action, Painted Table, Seattle, WA
ArtWalk, Olympia, WA
Group Show, Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Seattle, WA
COCA Refusé Show, Seattle, WA
1995 Autumn Flourishes Art Show, FL
33rd Annual Wickford Art Festival, RI
Saturday in the Park Art Festival, FL
Florida State Fair Woodcarving Competition, Honorable Mention
1994 Fort Walton Beach Museum Show, FL
Arts & Design Society Fall Art Show, First Prize Sculpture, FL
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