Please join SPA online for an artist talk by 2019-202 Larry Sommers Fellowship Recipient Kelda Martensen on Saturday, May 16 at 1pm via Zoom. This event will be recorded.
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Kelda Martensen is a visual artist working in printmaking, collage and book arts. She serves as department chair at North Seattle College, where she teaches drawing, print and book arts. Martensen’s hand-printed collages and artist books are built and composed through many layers and stages of printmaking, collage and drawing. Martensen creates texture and color through various printmaking methods including woodblock, drypoint, monotype, solvent transfer, polyester plate lithography, and chine collé. Collage is at the center of her printmaking and book arts practice, bringing focus to metaphors and narratives that arise through colliding imagery and collapsing of material qualities. Her textures and forms recall abstracted landscape – the surface of the water, the grain of trees – and she uses figural forms to communicate the human relationship to land and loss. Many of Martensen’s works incorporate paper elements that turn, fold and lift beyond the two-dimensional plane and in this way occupy a middle ground between print and artist book.
Kelda Martensen lives in Seattle, WA with her family. She is represented by J. Rinehart Gallery.