​Artist Statement​

Constructing hybrid forms from discarded domestic, industrial, and feminine materials, I bind the past into new, speculative futures using tape, thread, and time. The sculptures alternatively reveal and conceal their vulnerable interiors. Genders morph and swap inside a single body, masculine columns are built from kitchen objects and bar stools, hardware is adorned with delicate handwoven coverings. Slowing down from the physicality of wrapping with tape, I weave garments, enclosures, and abstract interactions within and around the sculptures. These beings grow internal structure and strength as they become newly autonomous characters. In my world, they embody fragmented and resilient figures of survival

Bio

.Martha Chason-Sokol is a practicing artist who shows her work locally and nationally. An associate member of Kingston Gallery, and the Chair of the Everett Cultural Council, Martha has shown at The Boston Sculptors Gallery, The Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Fitchburg Art Museum among others. She has a Bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and an MFA in Fine Arts from Lesley University College of Art and Design.

​Chason-Sokol has taught in non-traditional settings for over thirty-five years. In the process of moving to Everett, MA. in June 2020, she became aware that there was no designated art space in the city and wanted to provide the community with the joy and healing of creative arts experiences. Since August 2021, as the Founder/Director of Art Lab Everett, she has offered these opportunities to Everett residents regardless of their ability to pay. 




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SOLO and TWO PERSON* EXHIBITIONS
2024
Gallery Rag, Sharing Space, Gloucester, MA
Lunder Atrium, Lesley University, Cyborgs, Cambridge, MA
2022
*Storefront Art Projects, Found Meaning with Joe Caruso
Beacon Gallery, The Dinner Party, Boston, MA
Gallery 263, Listening Works, Cambridge, MA 
2021
Bell Library Gallery at The Ethel Walker School, When Pigs Fly and Other Fairy Tales, Simsbury, CT
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Fitchburg Art Museum, The 89th Regional Exhibition of Art and Craft, Fitchburg, MA
Kingston Gallery, Picnic With Ghosts, Boston
Gallery RAG, All We Hold, Gloucester, MA
CAA @ Canal Gallery, Fiber & Textile, Cambridge, MA
Art + Everywhere x MASS MoCA, Roots/Wings
Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Aura, Cambridge, MA
2024
HV MOCA, Crit Ecologies: Artists, Community, Criticality, Peekskill, NY
Boston Sculptors Gallery, Confluence, Boston, MA
MassArt x SoWa, Bold: Challenging Norms, Igniting Dialogue, Boston, MA
2023
VanDernoot Gallery, Lesley MFA 20th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition, Cambridge, MA 
Boston Sculptors Gallery, Stirring + Layering, Boston, MA
Cambridge Commons Gallery, Talking Points, Charlestown, MA
2022
Fitchburg Art Museum, The 86th Regional Exhibition of Art and Craft, Fitchburg, MA
Collar Works, Painting at Night, Troy, NY
​Kathryn Shultz Gallery, CAA National Prize Show, Cambridge, MA
Fountain Street Gallery, Beyond Words, Boston, MA
Roberts Gallery, Grad Thesis Show, Cambridge, MA
2021
Broad Institute, MIT, Remembering Together: Marking Lives Covid-19 at the Broad
Gallery 263, Chasing the Light, Online
Fitchburg Art Museum, The 85th Regional Exhibition of Art and Craft, Fitchburg, MA
Kathryn Shultz Gallery, Emerging Artists Show, Cambridge, MA
Bromfield Gallery, Double Vision, Online
2020
Lesley MFA Exhibition, Unlocked, Art as Antidote, Online
Area Code Art Fair, Online
Bromfield Gallery, Sizzle, Online
Kathryn Shultz Gallery,  Cambridge, MA
ArtSpace Maynard, Energy, Maynard, MA
2019
University Place Gallery,  Blue, Cambridge
Chandler Gallery, Fragments: Collaging the Material World
Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Art Book Fair
Mills Gallery, 26th Annual Boston Drawing Show
Loading Dock Gallery, Funky Book Show, Lowell, MA
SLAG Gallery, Endangered, St Louis, MO
University Place Gallery, Spectrum, Cambridge, MA
Kobalt Gallery, Inside the Rectangle, Provincetown, MA (co-curated)
BAC Gallery, ART Off the Wall, Brookline MA
Kathryn Shultz Gallery, Visual Feast, Cambridge, MA
Kathryn Shultz Gallery, This is How it Starts, Cambridge, MA
2018
Nave Gallery, Those Who Can, Teach, Somerville, MA
Adam Peck Gallery Invitational, The Blues, Provincetown, MA
Chandler Gallery, Prints as Sculpture, Cambridge, MA
2017 
University Place Gallery, Blue Biennial, Cambridge, MA
Brookline Art Center Invitational, Brookline, MA
University Place Gallery, Mary Schein Fall Salon, Cambridge, MA
University Place Gallery,  - Scapes, Cambridge, MA
Kobalt Gallery, Alternative Wax: Layers of Facts, Provincetown, MA 
Adam Peck Gallery Invitational, Black Tie Optional, Provincetown, MA

MENTOR/CRITIQUE
Listening Works - mentoring Everett youth in the creation of public art - ongoing
MassArt MFA Program Mentor 2024
Final Critique, Graduate, MFA program, Lesley University College of Art and Design, 2022

AWARDS GRANTS AND RECOGNITION
Art+Everywhere - Presentation on the Innovation Grant during Alumni Celebration at Mass MOCA, 1/2025
​NEFA - New England Foundation for the Arts Public Art Learning Fund Grant, 2025
Art+Everywhere Innovation Grant for Listening Works in collaboration with performance artist Mariana Paz, 2024
Everett Citizens Foundation - Arts For Everett 2021/2022/2023
Everett Cultural Council - Drawing IN(ter)VENTIONS, 2022
Massachusetts Cultural Council Festival Grant, 2022, 2023, 2024
Finalist Bromfield Gallery Solo Show, Juried by Meg White, 2021
Strauch-Mosse Merit Scholarship - Lesley University Art + Design, Cambridge, MA, 2020-2022
Finalist - Bromfield Gallery Solo Show - Juried by Howard Yezerski, 2019
​Ella Lyman Cabot Fellowship for Creativity
Revere Arts Lottery Grant

PRESS
Beacon Gallery Connections
Boston Art Review
Cambridge Day
Artscope, March/April 2022, Fountain Street, More Than Words, p. 27

RESIDENCY
Beacon Gallery - AiR - The Dinner Party - Boston, MA, 2022
Crit Lab at RUC - Rural Residency for Contemporary Artists - Lombardy, Italy, 2019

GALLERY/ASSOCIATIONS
Kingston Gallery - Associate Member
Everett Cultural Council - Chair
Cambridge Art Association - Member
New England Sculptors Association (NESA) - Member
Boston Sculptors Gallery - Past Associate Member