Lydia Martin is a contemporary jeweler living and working in Baltimore, MD. She received an MFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 2017 and a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. After completing a two-year teaching appointment and residency at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Lydia began teaching at the Baltimore Jewelry Center, where she is also the Studio and Program Assistant, and Towson University. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Lydia is currently being represented by Jewelers’ Werk Galerie in Washington, DC.
“My jewelry is a record of intentions and consequences, a history of decisions made during the physical act of making. Each piece becomes a tangible catalogue of actions bearing the marks of their making, seams highlighted or hidden in turn by their color and finish. Distortion reveals the limits of materiality, while skillful reconstruction seeks to make whole what was once fragmented. This methodical approach allows for new forms to be considered, a systematic approach to capture altered perspectives. Forms become suspended in motion creating new orientations both on and off the body. My jewelry is in a constant state of flux, shifting boundaries physically from my studio to the body. This shift creates a change in the emphasis; the form that was once only suspended in motion is now suspended in wearing.”
