SHANTELL MARTIN (B.1980)

Fall 92Y - Inside

Signed and dated '18 lower right

ink on paper

sheet: 36 x 24 inches (91.4 x 61 cm)

framed: 40 x 28 x 0.5 inches (101.6 x 71.1 x 1.3 cm)

Executed in 2018.

PROVENANCE:

Shantell Martin Studio, Los Angeles

EXHIBITED:

New York, NY, 92Y, Why Now

NOTES:

Created during Shantell Martin’s landmark first-ever visual artist residency at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y in Fall 2018—an initiative highlighted as a three-month deep dive into her line-led practice—Fall 92Y – Front Cover (2018) distills that moment into a single, evocative image. With her signature continuous black line, Martin intertwines faces, figures, an “NY” airplane, and the text “92Y FALL 2018,” crafting a dreamlike visual map that charts memory, place, and identity. The layered profiles and urban motifs evoke both multiplicity and connection, transforming a cover into a canvas where spontaneity meets institutional presence—an emblem of artistic emergence grounded in space and time.