Martha Sedgwick

Martha Sedgwick's work has been exhibited throughout the United States including Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Arts, A.I.R. Gallery and Artist Space in New York City, and is included in the Pierogi 2000 Flatfiles, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Her work is widely represented in private and public collections including the W Hotel Group and Mckinsey and Company.

Ms. Sedgwick received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in 1978.

She lives and works in New York City and Truro, MA.

My work is abstract, and I avoid any depiction of that which appears in the real world because it would obstruct access to what propels me to make a painting in the first place. Making a painting links me to the essential in myself and is my way of speaking to and with the intellectual and emotional relationship I have with a source of inspiration. The truth of my life passes through the conduit of the creative, and everything I know and feel is in my paintings.

Within the relationships of color, the contrast of light and dark, and of painting edge to edge on the canvas there is found both harmony and tension. This complex mirroring of the way it feels to be in relationship to these basic human emotions, opens the possibility for reflection and resolution at the moment of engagement with the work.

—Martha Sedgwick, 2007