This exhibition includes seventeen of Martha Walker's latest works, juxtaposing stark and ominous imagery of recent political events, deeply personal emotions such as angst, alienation and love, and semi-abstract imagery suggesting organic life and growth. The exhibit explores the interplay between these elements and concepts.

Ms. Walker uses molten metal to create her forms. Many appear weightless and delicate, with tendrils and other plant-like shapes looping and curling around voids. Working over an open flame, meticulously melting and dripping steel rods to build her sculptures, the artist creates forms that are fluid and organic, making the industrial origins of the material almost unrecognizable. She believes that this painstaking, meditative process reveals subconscious imagery and gives her art a feeling of timelessness. Often, her forms are likened to aquatic or other biological organisms, and Walker cites her frequent experiences in her father's research laboratory, where she viewed micro-organisms under a microscope, as a significant influence on her visual perspective.

The artist has written: "Aesthetically, all of my sculptures reflect an interest in texture. While dripping the molten metal, large drips freeze in space like instant stalactites on one side of the form. However, on the other side, where the weld is made, the metal flows together like water, forming a smooth surface, similar to a 'skin.' The contrast between these surfaces is a natural outgrowth of my process that I find both challenging and interesting."

This exhibition will also feature several of Walker's sculptures with political themes, such as Reign of Tears (an homage to the Gulf oil spill), Struggle Against Repression (a nod to human rights violations), and A Light Within (inspired by fundamentalist Islam as it impacts on women). At the same time, works like Dyad, Pearl, Mixed Emotions, and Separation Anxiety speak more personally about love, maternity, ambivalence, and angst. Walker feels that there are profound reverberations between the global and personal.

Martha Walker was born in 1953 in Kansas City, Missouri. She attended Pratt Institute from 1971- 1976, majoring in sculpture and drawing, and returned there from 1999-2001, receiving her Master's Degree and graduating with honors.

Ms. Walker's works are included at the Anne Frank Center, USA; The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University; the Kouros Sculpture Center; and the Pratt Institute Sculpture Park, among other notable public and private collections. Her work has been featured on New York One, in the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue, and on the sets of the television series: Gossip Girl, The Following, and Flesh and Bone.