“I always thought being an artist,” Shantell Martin told me recently in her Los Angeles studio, “allowed you to do anything you want. It’s a freedom to create whatever you want, wherever you want, whenever you want.”
That is certainly true for Martin whose life and career has never followed a straight line. Martin has found expression in a multiplicity of mediums, materials, venues, and in artistic collaborations and outlets all over the globe.
Martin’s work is improvised, a spontaneous black…
