Untitled Self Portrait (Hands in Her Hair)

Influenced by Picasso’s period of cubism, and surrealism and De Kooning’s abstract expressionism,  Martha paints biomorphic shapes. Martha is great at ambiguously blending figure and ground in her pictures while dismembering, re-assembling and distorting her figures in the process.

This painting is taken from a self portrait, black andwhite photograph by and of the artist.