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This September, be sure not to miss Black & White’s latest exhibition Continuous Line — a large-scale, first solo exhibition of works made specifically for the exhibition by the Brooklyn-based, British visual and performance artist Shantell Martin. The exhibition’s title refers to the artist’s continuous endeavor to transform her ongoing internal monologue into a visual narrative while simultaneously indicating the complimentary relationship between the indoor and outdoor exhibition spaces. |
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“Translated and mapped to the gallery space, her continuous flow of sensations, impressions, images, memories and thoughts will invite the viewers to reevaluate their relationship to their surroundings.“
Shantell Martin pictured working on one of her large scale drawings. Courtesy of the artist and Black & White Project Space.
Shantell Martin’s Continuous Line
This September, be sure not to miss Black & White’s latest exhibition Continuous Line — a large-scale, first solo exhibition of works made specifically for the exhibition by the Brooklyn-based, British visual and performance artist Shantell Martin. The exhibition’s title refers to the artist’s continuous endeavor to transform her ongoing internal monologue into a visual narrative while simultaneously indicating the complimentary relationship between the indoor and outdoor exhibition spaces.
Shantell Martin works in the variety of artistic media: analog drawing on walls, cars, people, shoes, clothes etc., digital drawing or drawing experiments using open frame works (coding platform), performance/projection and, increasingly, drawing on found or interesting objects. Martin favors a loose style that suggests free association but, upon closer inspection, seemingly incomplete scenarios reveal precise line and placement of objects. Translated and mapped to the gallery space, her continuous flow of sensations, impressions, images, memories and thoughts will invite the viewers to reevaluate their relationship to their surroundings.
Since graduating from London’s Central Saint Martins University of Art & Design with first class honors in graphic design and illustration in 2003, internationally acclaimed visual artist Shantell Martin (b. 1980) is expanding conventional definitions of drawing and animation to transform visual experience in the design, fashion and music industries. Her dazzling light projections have been featured in iconic spots such as New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the mega clubs of Tokyo and Russia, and on the enormous screens at Shibuya and Harajuku crossings in Tokyo. Martin has quickly infiltrated popular culture stateside — she’s been cast as herself on quintessential New York show Gossip Girl, interviewed on CNN, appeared on an NBC morning show, and deemed a muse of super-hip design blog, PSFK.
She was named by French Glamour as New York’s “coolest it girl” in 2011, and her zany, hand-illustrated bedroom walls graced the cover of the New York Times home section in May 2012. Her show at Black & White Project Space will be on view from September 21st – October 28th, 2012.
Black & White Project Space is located at 483 Driggs Ave, Brooklyn, New York.
