marthe minford-meas
fine art

Working with a cycle of jazz oil and acrylic paintings, I sketch to live jazz, to capture the essence of the music later in the studio.  Raw canvas showing through brings surfaces into play.  A non-objective watercolor series is driven by classical music. In it, rough 300# D'Arches cold press gives texture to bleed colors over and through.  Sculpting color throughout a shadowy world reflects my fascination with temporal issues."

A Literature, Science and Arts graduate of The University of Michigan with a Masters in English from Winthrop University, Marthe Minford-Meas has instructed both art and poetry publicly and privately.  She taught Poetry at Xavier University in Cincinnati before moving to Corpus Christi. 

Marthe has lived and worked in Texas, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina, and North Carolina.  Her art reflects this          diversity.  Recently she has painted or drawn on location in Wisconsin, Colorado, and Greece.

"Although I don't paint a painting to illustrate a poem or write a poem to explain a painting, the themes I work with in each medium resonate with each other."  The artist's poetry has been published in The Paris Review, Western Humanities Review, Southwestern American Literature, et. al.  A book of poems has been a finalist in national publication competitions.

Her watercolors, acrylics, inks and oils are collected nationally and internationally.  In Charlotte, NC the artist served as director of Villa Art, a cooperative gallery.  Her bibliography includes five Watercolors in issue #14 2005 of "The Dirty Goat" from Host Publications found currently in contemporary art museums; The History of Matagorda County, Vol. I and II; and the cover of The Saga of Caney Creek.  During June 2004 she gave a poetry reading and presented paintings on Rhodes, Greece at the University of the Aegean.  In June 2006 she presented poetry and art at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Recent exhibitions include: "The Circular Exhibition" at the Hun Gallery, New York, NY and Ho Gallery, Seoul, Korea during July 2007; "Texas Artists 2007" at the Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, TX during August 2007; "Art in Focus" a solo exhibition at the Corpus Christi  International Airport sponsored by the city during June and July 2007; "Writing in Ink" a solo exhibition at the Galería Galván in Corpus Christi, TX during May 2007; "Take Five" a solo exhibition in the Kucera Gallery of the Art Center of Corpus Christi in March 2007; a juried show through November 2007 of the South Texas Art League (STAL) at the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX.