Martin Venezky is an artist and photographer exploring relationships between objects, form, drawing, and the image. His work shifts scale from intimate gatherings of discarded objects to expansive wall-sized installations. Venezky's background in graphic design sparked his interest in abstraction as a narrative device.
In 2001 the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art honored Venezky with a solo exhibition, and, in 2005, his monograph, It Is Beautiful...Then Gone, was published by Princeton Architectural Press.
Venezky has an undergraduate degree in Visual Studies from Dartmouth College and an MFA in Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has taught at RISD and CalArts and, for more than thirty years, at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where he has just been awarded the rank of Professor Emeritus in the Graduate Design Program.
Although a longtime resident of San Francisco, Venezky has relocated to Michigan to complete a second MFA in Photography at Cranbrook, thirty years after receiving his design degree from the same institution. He is using this time to further his investigation of abstraction through photography and markmaking.
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