Sylvia martins biography
- Sylvia Martins (born 1956) is a Brazilian painter.
- Sylvia Martins is a Brazilian painter.
- Born in Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Sylvia Martins graduated in Visual Communications in Rio de Janeiro.
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Sylvia Martins
Sylvia Martins is a Brazilian born painter and printmaker whose work often incorporates soft pastels and impressionistic brushstrokes to create luminescent, dreamy images varying in subject matter from flora to woodland creatures to jewelry. Martins is constantly exploring and pushing herself in her artistic practice. Her work is a fundamental function that dictates her life. She says that "rules don't exist in my universe."
Martins attended the Art Students League in New York from 1979-83 as a student of Richard Pousette-Dart, from whom she learned the fundamental principle, "free yourself from the rules of space." Her work has been the subject of multiple international solo exhibitions at venues such as the Centro Cultural Correios in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Exhibit A in New York, the MOMA Contemporary in Fukuoka, Japan, and Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles. It has also been included in group shows at Special Projects in New York, Galeria Anita Schwartz in Rio de Janeiro, Swatch Kaleidoscope in Paris, France, and Athens, Greece, the Aspen Art Museum i
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Sylvia Martins
Sylvia Martins, born in 1954 in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, began her art studies at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro between 1973 and 1976. She later furthered her education at the School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League in New York City. In Brazil, she participated in significant events such as the National Salon of Goiás (1977) and the National Salon of Plastic Arts in Rio de Janeiro (1980), in addition to collective exhibitions in both Brazil and the United States, where she is currently based.
Her career includes frequent solo exhibitions in cities like New York, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, and Porto Alegre. Her work, primarily abstract, incorporates a rich mixture of materials and textures, often concealing elements of reality beneath its vibrant plasticity and the use of shiny surfaces.
Although she maintains an apartment in Rio de Janeiro, Sylvia Martins lives and works in New York City.
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Born in Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Sylvia Martins graduated in Visual Communications in Rio de Janeiro. In 1979 she moved to New York to study at the School of Visual Arts and with Richard Pousette-Dart at the Art Students League. He encouraged her to further explore the possibilities of personal and spiritual direction in her creative development.
Her paintings and drawings are near abstractions that evoke images from nature and organic forms. Her work is heavily informed by travel; the influences include ethnic design, anthropology, decorative arts and rituals, among other things. Martins doesn’t follow tendencies, the focus is on painting itself. Lately she has been experimenting with digital photography exploring textures and playing with image and color. Her work can be found in numerous public and private collections throughout South America, Europe, Asia and the United States. Sylvia currently lives and works between New York City and Rio de Janeiro.