The Diplomat
January 15, 2009
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Expanding Universe
The End Justifies the Means Justifies the End by Martha Walker
Sculptor Martha Walker looks for the beauty of nature, sees allusions of anguish and disaster and molds them into steel.
An exhibit of the sculptor’s welded-steel structures, Expanding Universe, opens Jan. 20 at the Dana Gallery in The Phillips Museum of Art. It runs through March 29.
There will be a gallery talk and artist’s reception on March 6, at 4:30 p.m. in the Dana Gallery.
Walker’s sculptures have been shown in numerous exhibitions and featured in the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City.
“I can’t say what triggers the images completely,” Walker recently told Manhattan Arts International. “They seem to come from a dream consciousness. They are often in muted colors, or grays and muted blues, which is how I dream. I also think there is a subconscious psycho-sexual connotation to a lot of my images.”
Her work is in many collections, including the Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum and the Ann Frank Center in New York.
The exhibition and gallery events are free and open to the public.
