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"The paintings in Constellations I drew in Nevada emerged from drawings I made of the night sky during an artist residency in the Great Basin Desert (in rural Nevada) in 2019.
I did not have access to the internet or phone service, so the clusters I drew were stars I imagined to be in relation to one another, rather than mythological or historical groupings. Everywhere in the Great Basin is a scattering of stone, of petrified wood, of bleached animal bones.
The sculptures of stone and glass throughout this exhibition relate to the desert ground, the paintings to the night sky.The following is a diary entry from that time: August 29th, 2020, The Montello Foundation, NevadaQuite an eventful night last night. A windstorm blew though this stretch of basin rattling the house and making a significant racket. The anxiety of the night made me quite sure it would blow the wildfires right to my door. But it the morning, everything was as it was. This morning, virga, all around.
I can’t remember- is sepulcher the smell of rain before it comes? I’ve been thinking a lot about beauty, what it is, how it translates into physical form. I feel most beautiful when I soften, let go of expectations, let go of the rigid boundary between myself and the world. The most beautiful things, I believe, can appear to be ugly with only a short twist of light. I think this is because they are a responsive to, intertwined with the world they breath in. In the desert one’s boundaries dissolve. Loneliness is not so much of an issue because one becomes also dust, also light. Everything passes through you all the time. High altitude deserts near mountains- this is my home.
How can I construct a life where I can always come back here? Here, I confuse my heartbeat with the sound of an approaching truck. I collect rocks and they slip through my overladen hands- everywhere a treasure. The counters of mountains are like the curves and dips of a body- the grasses droop and leave semi-circle drawings when the wind blows them. A desert of brutality is not the desert that I have known. Yesterday, I saw a square rainbow held in a pocket of a cloud. I made dye from juniper berries and an old mordant recipe using juniper needle ash. I sat with what I didn’t know. I drew constellations in the sky and looked for their counterparts in the holes dug by insects and animals in the ground.
I find myself more and more trusting the land, listening to the wind. I rub sage between my hands and breath in. The words from John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley play over and over again in my head- “the desert has mothered magical things”. When I dream, I dream of people When I dream, I dream of people I have known."
Born in Santa Fè, NM in 1989
Lives and works in Brookyln, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Field and Hedges, Timothy Taylor, London, UK
2024
Tuch / Stone, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2023
Hydra,Teeh of Quartz, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA
2022
An ear, a hand, a mouth, an offering, an angel, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Geologies, Camille Obering Fine Art, Guesthouse, Jackson Hole, WY
2021
Wild irises grow in the mountains, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Moonrays, Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Ma/Ma, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
Summertime at Pie Projects: Joanne Lefrak & Martha Tuttle, Richard Levy Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2020
Constellation I Drew in Nevada, Luce Gallery, Torino, IT
Outlooks: Martha Tuttle, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY
2019
Bacchante by the Sea, Geukens and De Vil, Knokke, Belgium
The Dance of Atoms, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018
Artissima Art Fair, Torino, IT, Solo Booth with Luce Gallery
As ita resembled a bird it was as if she could fly, Geukins & DeVil, Antwerp, Belgium
Oracles, Luce Gallery, Torino, IT
I long and seek after, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Cimarron, (Martha Tuttle and Henry Chapman – two person show), Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016
Nesticulations, (Martha Tuttle and Laurie Kang – two person show), In Limbo, Brooklyn, NY
Metaxu, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Empathetic Geologies, KOKI RTS, Tokyo, Japan
Earthbound, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2024
Line & Threa: Prints and Textiles from the 1600s to the Present, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA
Space City: Art in the Age of Artemis, Asia Society, Houston, TX, USA
2023
Two Pieces in the Shape o a Pea, Hauser & Wirth, Southampton, NY, SA
Home Run, Casa Marguo, Menorca, Spain
2021
Sign of the Times, curated by Own Duffy, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
Angle of Repose, Poker Flats, Williamstown, MA
Light Stone & String, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2020
Open Air, Luce Gallery, Torino, IT
Abstract! Minimalism to Now, Titlton Gallery, New York, NY
2019
In with the New, Artual Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
Embodying: Flesh, Fiber, Features, Galleria Anna Marra, Rome, Italy
Cyrus in the Garden, The Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
Polishing the Jewel Box, Disturb the Neighbors, New York, NY
The Land That I live In, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, CA
Room for Failure, curated by Omar Lopez Chahoud, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami , FL
2018
Complicated Territory: Alex McQuilkin, Erin Riley, Martha Tuttle, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Veils, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
Sutures, Marc Straus, New York, NY
Sculpture Garden, Art Lot, Brooklyn, NY
Silent Transformations, Deli gallery, Queens, NY
Among Friends, with Dumbo open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Parallel Practices, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT
A Simple Fraction, Curated by Deb Singer, Doyers, New York, NY
Alan Shields Project, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY
2017
Selvedge, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME
Wash, Rose Arcade, Joshua Tree, CA
Dangerous Educators, Triumph, Chicago, IL
Form of Touch, SVA Curatorial, curated by Becky Nahom, NYC
2016
14 Artists Dealing with Paper, LMAK Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Reading, The Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
Raylets, Radical Abacus, Santa Fe, NM
2015
It’s After the End of the World, Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA
Utilities, Radical Abacus, Santa Fe, NM
Yale Graduates 2015, Garis and Hahn Gallery, New York, NY
2015 But Who's Counting?, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2014
Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Currents International New Media Festival, Santa Fe, NM
2013
Untitled, Treize Gallery, Paris, France
Gray Beginnings, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM
2012
Each Moment We Live Our Lives Shine, The Cullom Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011
Fabric as Form, Tilton Gallery, NY, NY
The Rivers are the Veins, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2026
Atelier Calder Residency, Calder Foundation, Saché, France
2025
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2019- 2020
The Rauschenberg Residency, The Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, FL
2017- 2018
Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, N.Y.
EDUCATION
2015
MFA, Yale School of Art (Painting and Printmaking)
2011
BA, Bard College
COLLECTIONS
The University of Saint Diego, Saint Diego, CA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, USA
Th National Gallery, Washington DC, USA
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, USA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
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