ON::View Artist Talk: Walter San Martín

Join us on Wednesday, August 26, at 6:15PM (doors open at 6PM) for an Artist Talk with ON::View Artist-in-Residence, Walter San Martín! ABOUT THE ARTIST: Walter San Martín is an artist based in Miami, FL, and New York, NY. His practice spans sculpture, printmaking, and performance, often exploring themes of immigration and labor through engaging the neglected components that structure our surroundings. Materials such as foam, felt, drywall, and seasoning as mediums are treated with contradictory narratives, connected to racial, class, and colonial dialectics. Raised in Miami by Ecuadorian parents, he is currently pursuing a BFA at The Cooper Union. His work has been shown in group exhibitions at Laney Contemporary in Savannah, GA, Cooper Union in New York, NY, and the YoungArts Gallery in Miami, FL, and in student exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY, the Rubell Museum in Miami, FL, and the Bass Museum in Miami, FL. ABOUT THE PROJECT: During his residency, San Martín plans to work with drywall and other common materials to create site specific installation based sculptures, respective to the spatial qualities present within the ON::View Studio where they will reside. The process will remain flexible during its creation, considering the architectural and logistical conditions of the space. Relating the work to the opening and closing of a window, a section of wall within the residency studio will be removed, revealing the studs and insulation behind it, then replaced, permanently altering the space, and then painted over seamlessly and invisibly, hiding the intervention. The activation of the installation will simultaneously act as a performance, visible from the large, street facing window.