Introducing betterArts Resident Marty Weishaar
/Marty Weishaar wanted a betterArts residency at Better Farm in order to continue his work on a large volume of small vellum drawings he calls "The Black Road."
"The drawings involve a long train of uninterrupted thought," he told us, "much like a dairy would function. The drawings focus on symbols of colonial houses, nostalgic mountains, and subjective abstraction. The line of the black road either builds up non-objective imagery or draws a line around recognizable symbols. The drawings are exhibited next to one another; houses, roads, mountains, gesture, and line share formal structures and empathies on building imagery using a repeating system."
The other series-in-progress underway is called "My Atomic Bomb and the Pursuit of Happiness"; large works on paper and canvas symbolizing the quiet conflict inside suburbs of the domestic dream and a larger dialogue within contemporary painting: the crisis of abstract painting.
Black Road, part of a 10-part series
Marty received his bachelor of fine arts from
, then went on to earn a master of fine arts from
in 2007. While not at Better Farm, he's in the midst of serving a year-long artist-in-residency at the
in Baltimore, and has previously done a month-log residency at the
. He works full-time as a teacher in the Baltimore area.
to see more images of Marty's work. To learn more about the betterArts residency program or to apply,
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