Marta Baumiller was born in Warsaw, Poland. She has travelled the world, studied languages, been a costume maker, fashion designer, milliner and product designer. Presently exploring ceramics and printmaking but working across media with a focus on project-based installations , her interest lies in the environment and merging the functional object with process, form, and politics. She incorporates the viewer experientially in playful challenges of accepted social norms.
Marta’s work, in all its various forms, can be found in galleries, hotels, and stores around the globe from The Straw Hat Restaurant in Anguilla to Salesforce offices in Silicon Valley and Westin Hotels worldwide. Her work has also been published in the New York Times, Wallpaper and Interior Design Magazine among others.
She currently lives and works in a renovated barn studio on the North Fork of Long Island.
Marta’s work, in all its various forms, can be found in galleries, hotels, and stores around the globe from The Straw Hat Restaurant in Anguilla to Salesforce offices in Silicon Valley and Westin Hotels worldwide. Her work has also been published in the New York Times, Wallpaper and Interior Design Magazine among others.
She currently lives and works in a renovated barn studio on the North Fork of Long Island.
Statement
Working across media, using labor intensive techniques like stacking, weaving or sewing, I commit to the physical process. I construct a range of objects and immersive, invented "landscapes" for the audience.
As a maker, the hand is essential in my art as is the intuitive and the imaginary. I discover and repurpose all manner of materials, using their substance to speak about hierarchies, the undervalued, under utilized and the sustainable.Working with vibrant color and texture to engage our senses, memory and emotion, I playfully approach meaning.Within these fabricated social settings our accepted notions of symbolic/actual, function/uselessness, public/private, individual/systems are constantly in question.
Can we find hope in objects, shelters or sanctuaries, even if only momentarily? Can art initiate change?
As a maker, the hand is essential in my art as is the intuitive and the imaginary. I discover and repurpose all manner of materials, using their substance to speak about hierarchies, the undervalued, under utilized and the sustainable.Working with vibrant color and texture to engage our senses, memory and emotion, I playfully approach meaning.Within these fabricated social settings our accepted notions of symbolic/actual, function/uselessness, public/private, individual/systems are constantly in question.
Can we find hope in objects, shelters or sanctuaries, even if only momentarily? Can art initiate change?