About m e

Martina Taylor is a textile artist and printmaker from Boston, now living in Philadelphia. She graduated from Oberlin College in 2024 with a BA in Studio Art and a focus on printmaking.  Prior to moving to Philly in 2024, she co-founded Arom Gallery, a pop-up art gallery with a three month residency in Budapest, Hungary. There, she facilitated four exhibitions and solo curated Veil/átmenet, a show of textile artists trained in Hungary. In Fall 2025, she completed a residency in the Apprentice Training Program at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, where she designed and produced two sets of large scale repeat pattern screen printed yardage. Martina currently teaches printmaking, drawing, and fiber arts classes for adults at Philly Art Center. 

Artis t Statement

I’m a textile artist and printmaker based in Philadelphia. I make art quilts that explore connections between urban landscapes, place, and memory by combining screen print and image transfer processes with surface design techniques. 

My quilts attempt to reconstruct the physicality of memory, drawing inspiration from physical locations in my life, both public and private.  My process begins by taking a reference image of a location, which I translate into layers of fabric through appliqué, surface design, and printmaking techniques. By flattening a location in a photograph and rebuilding it in a different form and at a smaller scale, the final piece freezes that space in a moment in time, reinterpreting it through memory and material. While I sometimes include the original photographic elements in my work, the final quilt is never fully accurate to the place it represents, altered by memory and medium. I use printmaking techniques to create dimensions and to show or hide the hand, choosing print processes for their ability to accurately or inaccurately transfer images. I’m interested in the ways that replication fails, and how this builds onto the story I’m telling.

I’m drawn to detailed ephemeral assemblages of the everyday: a cluttered unfinished basement, peeling layers of billboard. I’m interested in the way fabric, like place, can act as a physical embodiment of time, symbolic of the past while recontextualized in the present. Through a careful textile recreation, I hope to deepen our practice of witnessing the everyday.