While recently visiting The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century at the Baltimore Museum of Art, I found myself walking through the familiar contemporary art wing where I found a new exhibition installed that I had not planned to visit. This exhibition, Martha Jackson Jarvis: What the Trees Have Seen, swiftly became my favorite recent exhibition at the BMA.
Martha Jackson Jarvis: What the Trees Have Seen at the Baltimore Museum of Art, image by the author.
Martha Jackson Jarvis is an artist based in Washington D.C. whose practice includes many different media, from works on paper to sculptures and public installations. From her artist’s statement:
“I create imagined space and form that signify action, ritual, repetition, and innovation. My works are attentive to ecosystems, decay, rebirth, sedimentation, and transformative form.”