Martha Diamond: Deep Time

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Your life is defined in time. The way I relate to this in my work is by thinking of infinity: to the time of religion, of history … using shapes that have been significant to people for thousands of years.
—Martha Diamond, interviewed for the 1989 Whitney Biennial

A painterly, abstract oil painting of a building in muted red, yellow, and brown hues by Martha Diamond.

This exhibition is co-organized by the Colby College Museum of Art and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and co-curated by Colby’s Katz Consulting Curator, Levi Prombaum, and The Aldrich’s Chief Curator, Amy Smith-Stewart.

Major support for the exhibition and accompanying publication is provided by an anonymous donor; additional support is provided by Agnes Gund, David Kordansky Gallery, and The Evelyn Toll Family Foundation. The Colby Museum presentation has also relied on the Everett and Florence Turner Exhibition Fund and the Mirken Family Publications Fund.

A black and white photograph of the artist Martha Diamond leaning against a column in her large, well-lit studio. She has short hair, her hands are folded in front of her, and she is meeting the gaze of the camera intently. Paintings are on the walls and brushes and other tools are on a cart and on the table. The space is clean, spare, and organized.

Diamond’s work is in the permanent collections of numerous institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine; the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Minneapolis Institute of Art; and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Her work was in the former collection of The Aldrich and was exhibited at the museum in group exhibitions in 1973, 1974, 1985, and 1988. Diamond’s estate is represented by David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles and New York. For more information, please visit marthadiamondtrust.org.