Biography Martina Angela Müller
Martina Angela Müller is a visual artist practicing in a number of different fields. The main body of her work is abstract painting, but she also works in sculpture, environmental art and installation. She was Senior Artistic Director at Lightforms Art Center in Hudson, NY from 2019- 2022. She is a member of the New England Sculptors Association. She creates her paintings, sculptures and installation pieces by bringing meditative practice inspired by great spiritual documents from many spiritual traditions together with the living forces of nature. Visionary inner experiences that actively form themselves in the realm of imagination in front of the inner eye often manifest themselves in her sculptures, paintings or installation. Another avenue to start work are the inscriptions that the life force in nature writes into sand, clouds, stone or the soft fibers of wood. Those manifestations in the cellular structure of wood, stone and sand then get transformed in the studio through deep artistic/meditative immersion, drawing on the insights of spiritual activity into paintings, sculptures or installations. Upon completion the sculptures find their way back into nature when installed after having undergone the transformative artistic process. Through magnification and amplification of the smallest, inconspicuous inscriptions the open secrets of nature become visible to others and displayed in their full majesty. Martina’s work has been seen in numerous galleries and venues throughout the North East and is in private collections across four continents. Most recently one of Martina’s installations has been seen alongside Hilma af Klint’s work at Lightforms Art Center in Hudson, NY.
Müller’s sculpture, painting and installation has been on view with Sculpture Now at The Mount in Lenox, MA, Flying Horse Sculpture Show in Hamilton, MA, Diana Felber Gallery in West Stockbridge, MA, as well as Chatham Meadows Sculpture Show in Chatham, NY and various venues through New England Sculptors Association and at Lightforms Art Center, LaMama LaGalleria and Center Point Gallery in NYC. Martina is on the faculty of the Alkion Center and works as freelance artist and teacher in Ghent NY where she maintains her studio.
Born and raised in Germany she studied at Ruhr University Bochum, Emerson College, England and Institute for Waldorf Pedagogy in Witten-Annen, Germany. Her main teachers were: Hudson River School Painter Thomas Locker, Ted Mahle at Rudolf Steiner College and Annemarie Martin-Habig.
Testimonial:
“Ms. Muller has been a well documented member of the fine arts community for many years and her artworks in all media are at a high technical, high creative and aesthetically advanced level. Her artworks exquisitely convey the full range of human emotion, her textural qualities are stunning. In some works her lines and shapes are wonderfully organic. In others, they are reminiscent of landscape. Still other works appear to reference physical cosmology. Her handling of figurative art is also of a high creative level, her interpretations of the human condition are fully informed while most creative. In all works her color theory has been pushed to the limit of human perception, as she renders fantastic and amazingly beautiful ranges of and combinations of color. Her works are of the highest caliber. To say that her work is highly creative is understating the impact that each of them carries to the viewer. Her artworks are each non-verbal communications that can be viewed over a great deal of time without one tiring of the sight, but, in fact, the viewer continues to perceive new things in each art work”.
Christine Hunt, PhD, Empire State University
Curation:
Senior Artistic Director at Lightforms Art Center from May 2019 to January 2022. Curated a show of work by Hilma af Klint from spring throughout summer of 2020. Showed internationally acclaimed artists Judy Pfaff, Richard Erdman, Jason Middlebrook and Daniel Mullen, as well as mid career and local artists. Spiritually inspired art was the main focus of the curation.
Public Sculpture:
Lift, at Dillant-Hopkins Airport, Keene, NH, supported by a grant from Arts Alive! summer 2021
Flight, at Hawthorne Valley Association, Ghent, NY, fall 2020
Exhibitions:
The Equinox-the Balance of Light, Juried online show at New England Sculptors Association, spring 2023
SculptureNow, at the Mount, Lenox, MA, summer 2022
The Equinox-Balance, Juried online show at New England Sculptors Association, spring 2022, 2nd Prize Winner
Worlds of Color, Lightforms Art Center, Hudson, NY, summer 2021
The Equinox, Juried online show at New England Sculptors Association, spring 2021
Moving Forms/Dynamic Balance, Sculpture Show at Lightforms Art Center, Hudson, NY, spring 2021
Imagination in the Time of Pandemic, Lightforms Art Center, Hudson, NY, winter 2021
The Infinite and the Divine, Hilma af Klint and female artists at Lightforms Art Center, Hudson, NY 2020
Metamorphosis and the Living Forces in Nature, Lightforms Art Center, Hudson, NY 2019-2020
Beethoven Project, at Williams College with Ronald Feldman and Doris Stevenson, MA 2019
Changing Landscape, New England Sculptors Association, Eustis Estate, Milton, MA 2019
Seeing Red, at Meetinghouse Gallery, New Marlborough, MA, July 2019
Flying Horse Sculpture Show, Hamilton, MA Summer 2018
SculptureNow, at the Mount, Lenox, MA, Summer 2017
Out of Many, One, at Meetinghouse Gallery, New Marlborough, MA, August 2017
Entry Point, at Center Point Gallery, NYC, Spring 2017
Chatham Meadows Sculpture Show, Chatham, NY, 2016
Group Show at Diana Felber Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA, Fall 2016
Group Show at LaMama LaGalleria, New York City, 2014
Participating Artist at “Art in Giving”, Boston, MA , 2014-present
Solo show at Joan Allen Gallery, Ghent, NY, 2015
Two artist show with installation at Free Columbia Space, Philmont, NY, 2013
Solo show at Fountain Hall Performing Art Center, Copake, NY, 2012
Installation and paintings for Arts Walk at Basilica Industria, Hudson, NY, 2010
Group Show at Threefold Auditorium, Spring Valley, NY 2010
Continuous showings at Cooperative Gallery 345 in Hudson, NY, 2007-2009
Sanford Smith Gallery, Great Barrington, MA 2000
Prizes:
Second Prize, Juried Online Show, New England Sculptor’s Association, Spring 2022
Honorable Mention, Empire State University Student Competition, 2019
Honorable Mention, Chatham Meadows Sculpture Show 2016
Honorable Mention, Book Cover Competition, Publisher Freies Geistesleben, Germany, 1987
Grants:
Arts Alive! Grant for public sculpture in Keene, NH 2020
Credere Grant for Installation at Basilica Industria, Hudson, NY 2010
Ilse Kolbuszowski grant for exhibit and installation at Free Columbia Space, 2013
Teaching:
Teaching art to adults since 1990
Teaching art at the middle and high school level since 1997
Currently teaching at the Alkion Center for Adult Education at Hawthorne Valley, Ghent,
Illustration and Book Covers and Graphic Work:
Internationally published children’s book illustrator (Floris Books, Christofoor, Urachhaus, etc.) of three children’s books, 1997-1999
Numerous book covers, logos and illustrations for magazines and periodicals
Cover of the Cortland Review, 2008
Press:
By the Way Berkshires, July 2022
Berkshire Edge October 2020
Article about Muller’s work in “Lilipoh” magazine Fall Issue 2013
Several articles about Müller’s work in Newsletter of Visual Art Section 2013-present
Education:
Cambridge University, England, English Proficiency Exam
Ruhr University, Bochum, Art and English
Emerson College, England, Art and English
Institute for Waldorf Pedagogy, Witten, Germany, High School Art Education
Empire State University, NY, Art
