My work and research is driven by the question just what is it that makes today's world so different, so appealing? Building from that question my research interests currently involve the artist as persona, privilege, contemporary product fads, design and branding, text and language, ego and identity. My work questions why objects, locations and trends were created, why they rise to popularity in contemporary life and how I as an artist, can exploit, twist or manipulate them for my own intrigue.

Martin is an artist living and working in Columbia, South Carolina where he is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art and Chair of the Studio Art Program at Columbia College. He received his Masters of Fine Arts in Transmedia Design at the University of Tennessee and his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography with Honors from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri where he was born and raised.

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martin.velo.lang@gmail.com