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Suzette Marie Martin

is a mixed media painter based in New England. Her work bears witness to ecological trauma through combinations of scientific data with figurative, symbolic, and archival imagery. Recent solo exhibitions include artist-in-residence at the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass, Amherst; the 6018North Center for Experimental Arts and Culture, Chicago; and the Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyack, NY. Martin was a keynote speaker at the “Never Not in Crisis: Forms of Calamity in Catastrophic Times Symposium”, Myers Foundation, Northwestern University. Her “Naiads of the New World” drawings have been featured in Orion Magazine. To follow along with the in-progress Herbarius series, see https://suzettemartin.com/herbarius
Medicinal Plants, Colonial Weeds, and Biodiversity Loss
A painted page showing an illustration of a plant and a description of it sits underneath sketches and beside a tablet showing an image of the original page of the book the painting is references
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Medicinal Plants, Colonial Weeds, and Biodiversity Loss

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Suzette Marie Martin

Herbarius: A New Herbal for the Anthropocene, by 2024-25 artist research fellow Suzette Marie Martin, is a “deconstructed manuscript” series of paintings that traces the intercontinental dispersal of non-native plant species through formerly valued medicinal herbs, now despised as weeds.