Faculty Exhibition 2022, NYSA

The Faculty Exhibition 2022 - 2023 at the New York School of the Arts showcased the diverse talents of faculty members. It was a vibrant celebration of creativity, innovation, and artistic vision.

My artwork is a three-piece installation titled Ways of Seeing, 2021, 2022, highlighting various mediums, including drawing, sculpture, and photography.

The installation explores the concept of perception, inviting viewers to engage with art in new and thought-provoking ways. The title suggests multiple layers of interpretation regarding how we perceive the world. The photograph collage comprises hundreds of detailed photographs of the sculpture, and the drawing depicts the sculpture. Each piece shows a different state of the sugar sculpture as it transforms over time.

Faculty Exhibition 

on view September - November 2022

New York School of the Arts, 315 E 62nd Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10065. www.newyorkschoolofthearts.org 

Solo Exhibition PROMISE OF SWEETNESS

Solo Exhibition

PROMISE OF SWEETNESS

May 14 to June 12, 2022

Stamford Art Association
39 Franklin Street, Stamford, CT 06901
stamfordartassociation.org

Nadia Martinez's skill at controlling materials and transforming them into graceful, delicate forms of expression are refreshing and inspiring. In this body of work, by using sugar as her material, Nadia surrenders control and embraces process as a new aesthetic form, creating the conditions for generosity, contemplation, and discovery.

She questions the idea of "instant gratification." By revisiting a happy memory instead of relying on contemporary narratives of happiness and sweetness that Capitalism has promoted.
Nadia shares a happy memory with the public, and in exchange, she invites the viewer to do the same thing.

"These trying times have had everyone looking for comfort. In my search, I went deep into my childhood memories, back to "La Sierpe," my grandpa's molienda, his artisanal sugarcane mill, and plantation, and found my sweet and happy place—a wonderful space to escape from everything happening around me. In that memory, I found a new meaning for 'sweetness' that went beyond something that could be experienced with one sense. Remembering my family working together to make from scratch something sweet, I realized that the sweetness that I was looking for was found in community, traditions, and laughter. My project, Promise of Sweetness, chronicles the growing of sugarcane from seed to plant in an effort to conjure this happiness." – Nadia Martinez