Sara Corley Martinez
Bio:
Sara Corley Martinez was born in Frederick, Maryland in 1986. She received her MFA from the University of Cincinnati in 2011. Sara has exhibited around the US with work in Baltimore, New York, and Cincinnati. After a break to have a child she is inspired to create work about the physical transformation and absurdly wonderful experience of motherhood. Sara currently lives and works in San Antonio, Texas.
Current Statements:
Drawing Restraints: This new body of work explores the absurdity inherent in motherhood by appropriating famously masculine pieces of art from the 20th century.
UNLOADING | a mother's body: Motherhood is loaded with all sorts of expectations and ideas of control. Since the moment of conception as a mother you are not in control. You are at the mercy of your own body and bodily function. This work seeks to discuss the irregularity and chaos of those bodily functions during and after pregnancy. I am specifically thinking about the relationship between what comes out of the body and fine art materials. This work is not meant to idolize or vilify the experience of pregnancy. Beauty, discomfort, and ideas of absurdity are up for interpretation, much like the real experience and transformation of pregnancy.
Spacial Fragments: Sara Corley Martinez explores micro biology and macro ambiance. Her work explores things that can't be seen, energies and experiences on otherworldly planes.