Emily Martin
Iowa City, IA

Eyes Were Watching

$500

www.emilymartin.com

Artist Statement

My work most often is with book forms. I have an ongoing interest in the artist’s book as a container of content. I like the complexity that working with books allows, the materials, the forms, the content all working together. With Eyes Were Watching the relationship between the various features of the book are an important aspect of the content. I draw from my own life, what I read, experience, remember, dream and also make up, is used to develop the content of my books. I want a communication from the book to the viewer, a communication sometimes clear, sometimes ambiguous or subject to interpretation. This is another aspect of the relationship of the book to the viewer.

Artist Biography

Emily Martin teaches at the University of Iowa Center for the Book and in workshops around the country. Her work is in public and private collections throughout the United States and internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago; The Marvin and Ruth Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach, Florida and others. She lives and works in Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A.

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