ARTIST STATEMENT:

Martin’s work exists in a liminal space between object and imagination. Built over time, through deep material engagement and lived experience, his work aims to evoke a sense. of narrative through a conflation of personal and universal tropes. By both commanding and exploiting visual languages, he offers a viscerally specific environment for the viewer to explore. He employs more traditional notions of painting and sculpture along with experimental combines in order to place the movement and gesture of these objects in the viewer’s physical space, defying the artwork’s inherent, static nature and asserting it as a necessary character in the universe it occupies.

Much like questions of our own existential existence, Martin’s work begs to be unpackes - constantly providing cvlues but eluding a conclusive answer. The ultimate goal is to connect, through making, with the deeper, unquantifiable elements that guide our human nature.

ARTIST BIO:

Martin Dull (b. 1986) is a New York / New Jersey based mixed media artist who studied at Pratt Institute, Marywood University, and the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture where, in 2015, he received his MFA. He was the 2015 recipient of the Peter Rippon/Royal Academy European Travel Grant, 2016 artist in residence at the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, 2017/18 Trestle Open Studio Resident and 2020/21 NYSS Dumbo Sculpture Studio Resident. In June 2021, Dull was selected by the organization Fresh Air Montclair to create a public installation along Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair, NJ.

Dull has been a guest speaker and critic at several institutions including the New York Studio School, Pratt Institute, Fordham University and Hunter College, has co-curated exhibitions throughout the New York metropolitan area, is co-founder of the curatorial collaborative JMN Artists, and works as an adjunct instructor at Caldwell University in Caldwell, NJ. Dull's artwork has been included in both group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States, most notably John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY, and M David & Co, Brooklyn, NY.