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Nov 6, 2023 1:32 pm
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A close-up of Martin's “A New Hat,” showing the face in cement, 2023.
Nan Martin solo show Collin College, Spring Creek Campus Plano, Texas Feb. 26-March 20, 2024
To move through Nan Martin’s studio, you almost have to dance. The sculptures composed on the wall space have faces that glance here and there, feet that dangle and kick out into space. Some sculptures are colorful, with soft shapes and pivot around, suspended from the ceiling. Other sculptures, of cement and wire, look both heavy and hollow at the same time.
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Oct 18, 2023 2:44 pm
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Emmar Grant wears a gas mask and hangs the symbolic curtain of toxic atmosphere during The Vibes are Rancid, while Nora Soto looks on from her cage.
The Vibes are Rancid 500x Gallery Dallas, Texas Oct. 14, 2023
The Vibes are Rancid, a performance art work by Nora Soto, debuted at 500x Gallery, amid much anticipation. The topic was painfully relevant to her audience of local artists and community organizers: racism and exclusionary practices in commercial art spaces.
A collection of paintings, works on paper, sculpture and crafted objects was recently displayed in the Transystems Corporation Gallery at the Fort Worth Community Art Center. Works included graphite drawings, portraiture and sculptures of instruments made of cardboard and dental floss that could have fooled a musician into picking up the sculpture of a banjo and trying to play it.
One work in particular of a brightly colored sunflower field catches the eye. It’s a small work, framed and a man has a child lifted up on his shoulders, the smiles and joy of the pair is palpable. It’s difficult to imagine that this work is the depiction made by a man who is in prison in the Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Fort Worth, Carl Masters. It’s a memory he decided to capture of himself and his daughter while using the Recreation Department’s arts and crafts room in the prison. In fact, the entire exhibition, titled Looking Within II, is work made by inmates in the same prison as Masters.
