Image by Leah Judson
artist statement
I explore the depths of the feminine psyche and conscious connection. My practice stems from obsessive archetyping, tracking, archiving and re-contextualizing of historiographies via the mediums of painting, sculpture, photo, video and performance.
My research intersects ancient mythology, Jungian psychology, conceptual archeology, theosophy, anthroposophy and celestial scholarship. I investigate narratives of becoming, instinct, intuition, breath, adornment, musing, intimacy, power, vulnerability, surrender, pain, death, and rebirth.
My work expresses a wide range of psychological and sensual moods, social anxieties and physical limitations from chronic illness. Experiences of rapture and rupture are always forefront. My obsessions with dualities, transmutation, alchemy, pressurization and assemblage vibrate in the work’s concepts as well as in the way materials are manipulated.
My materials seek collaboration with the Earth: I often place my artwork and materials in conversation with the Earth’s landscapes. Utilizing the four elements as materials and conduits conserves my practice as balanced and generative, and many times recognizing el ser mujer as the fifth element.
artist biography
Marta Lola Staudinger (b.1987) is an Austrian-American artist living and working between Washington DC, Italy and Spain. She holds an MA in Contemporary Art and Curatorial Studies from the Universidad de Ramon Lull (Barcelona, Spain) and a triple undergraduate degree in Art History, Sociology and Communications from George Mason University (Fairfax, VA). Throughout her academic and museum career, Marta curated exhibitions and apprenticed with fine artists.
Marta explores the depths of the feminine psyche and conscious connection via the mediums of painting, sculpture, photo, video and performance. Recent group exhibitions include On the Color of Distance at Gradient Project Space in West Virginia (2024), Degrees of Commitment: Climate, Ecosystems, and Society at Arrowmont in Tennessee (2023) and at various art galleries in the Washington DC area; including the Joan Hisaoka Gallery and American Poetry Museum, with her latest solo exhibition Currency? Material, Radiator. A Retrospective at HOMME (2021). Marta’s work has been featured in the Washington Post, Washingtonian, DC Modern Luxury, and Home&Design. She is a recipient of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship (2024 & 2025).