Shantell Martin

Brooklyn based artist/VJ Shantell Martin collaborates with her surroundings, drawing glyphs, lines and recurring characters. Her exciting art is flexible, multi-dimensional and surreal; a constellation of small observations that spill from one medium to the next. Whether it’s light on a wall, marker on skin, or pen or paint on canvas, she uses whatever materials are readily available and is often fuelled by music. Shantell says “I want people to experience my work without attaching any story line to it,”

“I don’t really care about preserving the moment, just about being in it.” What is produced is unexpected.

Shantell has the ability to create a delightful visual experience that is temporary; a performance that is constantly growing, erasing and evolving. Audience interaction plays a vital role! Click the following link to see Shantell at work! MoMA/Shantell Martin on YouTube

Recent appearances include performances at MoMA, Museum of the Moving Image, and Tokyo and London megaclubs. She has been cast as herself on Gossip Girl, featured on CNN, and interviewed on an NBC morning show. Shantell was also a guest speaker at the F5 2011 conference and a guest lecturer at the Mapping festival in Geneva, Switzerland.

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