Dragon Fly Torche
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Title
Dragon Fly Torche
Description
Chris Martin received a BFA in Art and Design from Iowa State University and completed an MFA in Furniture Design at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. He has run Chris Martin Furniture, where he designs and fabricates studio art furniture, since 1995, and he is also currently an Assistant Professor at the Iowa State University College of Design.
Chris cites Japanese aesthetics, the natural world and fantasy as influences on his work but states,"I have come to realize, however, that there is a deeper, underlying drive influencing my designs. The environment in which I grew up continues to inspire me. As a child I lived in Keokuk, Iowa, a heavily industrialized river town with huge smoke belching factories, railroad tracks meandering through it, and a lock and dam that still amaze me. I am intrigued by the resiliency of nature and how she manages in some way, to take back what we try to claim from her...This is what drives my work: the manmade in unity with or in contrast to the natural."
Creator
Martin, Chris
Publisher
University of Iowa. School of Art and Art History
Date
2003
2004-12-27
Rights
Digital collection © The University of Iowa. All works are copyright the individual artist.
Relation
The Daily Palette Digital Collection
Visual Arts
http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=210
http://www.chrismartinfurniture.com
Format
88
36
28
Steel, Chichipata, Rice Paper
Type
Still image
Steel (Alloy); Rice paper (Nonfibrous paper)
Identifier
12272004.jpg
183409339
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/