Martha Willette Lewis
Artist in Residence
September / October 2023

Martha Willette Lewis is a visual artist, curator, and radio presenter. Her work intersects science, technology, history, and human knowledge to produce handmade works which respond to site and place. Recent projects tackle such topics as quantum physics, the climate crisis, Covid and its impacts, gun violence, misogyny and the concept of memory.

Using words and images, her work manifests itself as works on paper, drawing, sculptural objects, printmaking, assemblage, light projection, sound works, and site-specific Installation, and she has several on-going collaborative projects which take her even further afield.

Martha is currently working with artist Marion Belanger (a Lost and Found Lab AIR ALUM) on a new mixed media project about the climate crisis and human impact on our landscape. This nuanced project includes altered photographs, sculptural works, and lots of experimentation. 

Martha’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including at The New Haven Museum, Modern Art Oxford, the Tricycle Gallery, London, the Decordova Museum, The Tides Institute & Museum of Art, Central Booking Gallery, Planthouse gallery, and the Pierogi Flatfiles to name a few. She was the inaugural artist-in-residence at The Yale Quantum Institute. She is host of two radio programs on WPKN: Live culture – a discussion about art-and the flux capacitor, a freewheeling music show. 

More of her artwork can be seen online at marthalewis.com and on instagram @quarantinecinegram and @marthawillettelewis