Artist Statement

Martha Jackson Jarvis

My art practice encompasses sculpture, public art, and studio production that include two-dimensional works. The unifying elements and indelible relationship between each genre are my continuous investigation of scale, intrinsic material structure, and imagined form.  The elastic boundaries of my studio practice fuel the production and sustainability of works that move freely between permanence and impermanence. I consider each work an intricate part of one unified body of work and continuous narrative.
I create imagined space and form that signify action, ritual, repetition, and innovation. My works are attentive to ecosystems, decay, rebirth, sedimentation, and transformative form.