Shrine of the Black Madonna Bookstore: Artist Highlight

DelitaPINCHBACK-MARTIN

“I am a visual storyteller and memory keeper for the African American Community. My work documents a spiritual and cultural history; a job I do not take lightly as I want my work to address and uplift the community through the preservation of memories.

My ideas stem from a long history of storytelling. These stories provide for me a holding space from which I work. This holding space is an ambiguous space that exists between spirituality and memory; allowing me to build my work showing a history of time, memory and spirituality. “

---Delita Pinchback-Martin

Delita Martin received her BFA from Texas Southern University, where she concentrated on drawing. After working as an independent artist, Delita has returned to school to obtain a MFA in Printmaking from Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana.

She currently teaches basic drawing at Purdue University. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally. She is currently working on a series of work addressing the identity of women of color through the use of personal symbolism.

MAJORS WORKS/PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

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University of Colorado-Boulder, Special Collections
Boulder, Colorado

Gorman Museum, University of Colorado-Davis
Davis, California

U.S. Department of Commerce, Essence of Generations:
Selections from the Permanent Collection
NOAA Fisheries Galveston, Texas

EXHIBITIONS

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Solo Exhibitions

2003 Something Was Lost in Translation, The Community Artist Collective, Houston, Texas

2001 All Gawd’s Chill’n Got Run’n Shoes, Robert J. Terry Gallery, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas

1998 Out of the Blackness, Gallery of Distinctive Art, Houston, Texas

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Holter Museum of Art, Helena Montana, scheduled and traveling to additional venues in the US through 2011

2008 International Art Exhibition, Hen Beudy Llangwyryfon, Aberystwyth Ceredigion, United Kingdom

2007 International Art Exhibition, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore, India

2007 A Gathering of Printmakers: 53 Artist from Across the United States and Abroad, Gorman Museum, University of California at Davis

2006 Pages and Voices, East and West Galleries, Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, Purdue University

2006 Spring Open House Exhibition, Historical School 30, Indianapolis, Indiana

2006 Impressit, Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Minnetonka, Minnesota

2006 Faces of Women, Las Vegas Arts Council, Las Vegas, New Mexico

2006 12th Annual African American Art Exhibition, Louisville, Kentucky

2006 New, Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition, East Gallery, Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, Purdue University

2006 Westwood Biannual Exhibition, Westwood House, Purdue University

2005 Open House Exhibition, Historical School 30, Indianapolis, Indiana

2004 Who? Goliards?, University Museum, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas

2003 Sister on the Horizon: Emerging African American Women Artists South Dallas Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas

2003 The 7th Annual Citywide African-American Artist Exhibition The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

2003 When the Angels Come, University Museum, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas

2002 Guest Artist Sepia II: She Who Is Brown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2001 Woman of Art and Soul, The Art Institute of Houston, Houston, Texas

2000 DiverCity: An Aesthetic Interpretation of Culture The Community Artists’ Collective Gallery, Houston, Texas

1999 Africa the New World and the Space In Between The Community Artists’ Collective Gallery, Houston, Texas

1998 University Exhibition, Univ. of South Carolina, McMaster Gallery, Columbia, South Carolina

1998 I Shall Not Be Moved, Gallery of Distinctive Art, Houston, Texas

1997 The Mask We Wear, Mercedes Art Gallery, Houston, Texas

AWARDS/PUBLICATIONS

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2006 Brown-Forman Corporation Purchase Award, Louisville, KY
2006 Delta Phi Delta Scholarship
2006 Mellen-Oberst Family Merit Award, Louisville, KY