Once you take a look at Kat Martinez's (BFA '21) still-life drawings she desires you to definitely select beauty, but then after you take a closer look she wants one to understand most of the is not just what it looks.

“I wanted to truly mark regarding men and women, Dutch vanitas [still-lifetime drawings] where they look very staged however after you take a closer look it appears a little off-placing and after that you discover a dead travel or something like that,” told you the 3rd-12 months painting beginner.

“I've always had they do say, ‘Oh, I really like one put, I go here having vacation' or ‘I ran there to possess my honeymoon',” she said. “That's great but some one constantly let me know it's so beautiful and you will there is certainly a great deal eating but that is simply what they want you to definitely come across and that's just what my still life is about.”

The very thought of anything not necessarily are what they very first come to get resonates which have erican she has a complex reference to the fresh isle, and you may expresses they because of the lady ways

My personal grandmother involved the usa into the a tiny ship. It’s 90 miles. She try that have around three most other household and you will she doesn't recognize how she made it,” Martinez said. “You ought to be extremely desperate to merely visit an excellent vessel and go so I have usually recognized the girl and you will my mommy for this and you will my personal grandfather as well.”

“One whole claiming regarding ‘bloodstream is actually weightier than simply liquids,' I imagined which was quite interesting thus i did a countless sketches examining one concept and you may claiming,” she told you. “Just what links a couple individuals is really stunning and so i did an excellent significant really works about my children.”