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Art NOW featuring RL Martens
January 28 | Noon | 免费福利资源在线看片 Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome
In this artist talk, RL Martens discusses their pieces in the upcoming Field Notes exhibition and other work associated with the (Re)Mediating Soils project.聽(Re)mediating Soils: Field Notes opens in the Hess Gallery on January 30 and is on view until April 4.
About the artist
RL Martens is a Philadelphia/Lenapehoking based artist. Their work explores the politics of soil health, agricultural strategies, and the social histories tied to land and resource extraction that are archived in ground. His place-based practice often begins with the speculative question 鈥渨hat if the soil could speak?鈥� and includes walking, listening, making, conversation, and archival research. Martens holds a master's degree in critical geography and has exhibited work at the Washington Project for the Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, the New York State Museum, been invited to speak at the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Warwick and Duke 免费福利资源在线看片, and published in Undercurrents, Room One Thousand, and Edge Effects journals, among others.
Image:Cyanotype in grass (detail). Photo courtesy of the artist.
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