Jump to content

Martha Burgess

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Draft:Martha Burgess)

Martha Burgess
Born (1957-10-23) October 23, 1957 (age 67)
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Installation artist
  • new media artist
  • sculptor
Employer
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1999)

Martha Holloway Burgess[1] (born October 23, 1957) is an American artist who has worked in installation art, new media, and sculpture. She is a 2001 Guggenheim Fellow and has also taught at several institutions, including The New School, the International Center of Photography, and Parsons School of Design.

Biography

[edit]

Martha Burgess was born on October 23, 1957, in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.[2] She obtained her bachelor's degree in art (minoring in philosophy and psychology) at Bethel College in 1979 and her master of fine arts degree at Yale University in 1982.[2][3]

In 1987, she was a P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center studio fellow.[2] In 1989, the Longwood Art Gallery exhibited one of her sculptures, a table whose top was an exercise book with a Roque Dalton poetry quote pasted to the cover.[4] She also had another sculpture commissioned for Food Center Sculpture Park at the Hunts Point Cooperative Market in 1991.[5]

In 1993, her sculpture On Leave, depicting two female World War II personnel kissing was exhibited at the Snug Harbor Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition.[6][7] A tribute to lesbian military personnel in World War II, it was inspired by the V-J Day in Times Square photograph.[6][8] It was vandalized on September 16, 1993; William Zimmer of The New York Times attributed this to homophobia,[7] while Gale Harris of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project found the incident "indicative of how contentious gay-straight relations remained on Staten Island in the 1990s".[8]

She joined The New School University in 1995 as an adjunct faculty member in digital photography, before becoming Adjunct Professor of Digital Media at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in 1997.[2] In 1998, she left the ICP and moved to Parsons School of Design.[2] She was a 1997 MacDowell Colony Fellow,[9] as well as a 1999 fellow of both the Jerome Foundation[1] and New York Foundation for the Arts.[2] In 2001, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in new media arts.[10]

In 2000, she had a solo exhibition at Gary Tatintsian Gallery.[3] Later that year, her exhibition Ignatz’ Nose Travels in Still Life, inspired by the fictional mouse Ignatz from Krazy Kat (which she was a fan of during her youth), appeared at Rice Gallery at Rice University.[3] Her installation Nocturne, opus no. 23, “moonlighting", a five-minute video installation where Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 played as a montage of black-and-white images - which Texas Monthly compared to Robert Frank's book The Americans - on a large plasma screen TV, was exhibited at 2002 FotoFest in Houston.[11]

Her work The Body in Flux appeared at the Pop-Museum of Queer History in 2013.[12] In 2017, her work "Queer as a Clockwork Peachfish", inspired by the film A Clockwork Orange, was exhibited at Trestle Art Space.[13]

Burgess lives in Manhattan,[14] having lived in the state of New York since 1984.[3]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b "Past Grantees". Jerome Foundation. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2002. p. 54-55.
  3. ^ a b c d "Martha Burgess | Manly on the Plaid". Rice Gallery. Retrieved March 23, 2025.
  4. ^ Raynor, Vivien (June 25, 1989). "At Longwood Gallery, 20 Artists Traverse Culture and Literacy". The New York Times. p. A30 – via ProQuest.
  5. ^ "Food Center Sculpture Park at Bunts Point". The New York Times. March 8, 1991. p. C30 – via ProQuest.
  6. ^ a b Fressola, Michael (August 22, 1993). "Harbor exhibition struggles". The Staten Island Advance. p. E1 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ a b Zimmer, William (October 10, 1993). "Statuary Taken as Inspiration". The New York Times. p. 14 – via ProQuest.
  8. ^ a b Harris, Gale. "Sailors' Snug Harbor". NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  9. ^ "Martha Burgess - Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved March 23, 2025.
  10. ^ "Martha Burgess". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved March 23, 2025.
  11. ^ Ennis, Michael (May 2002). "Moving Pictures". Texas Monthly.
  12. ^ "AMT Faculty and Alumna Featured in Review of Selected Works from the Archive of the Pop-Up Museum Of Queer History". Parsons School of Design. February 20, 2013. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  13. ^ Bosticco, Carlo (September 7, 2017). "Off the clock: Artist queers 'Clockwork Orange' images". Brooklyn Paper. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  14. ^ "m holloway burgess". Museum of Arts and Design. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martha_Burgess&oldid=1283500145"