(b. 1953)
As a young boy, Craig Marta attended drawing sessions at the Brooklyn Museum School, and summer sculpture class at Hofstra University where his early creative efforts drew recognition and praise from his teachers. He began art making in earnest during his high school years shooting and editing 16mm film shorts and experimenting with stop-action animation techniques. Marta has studied fine art at the New York State University College at Buffalo, and found his most valued training at the Art Students League of New York with instructor Jack Henderson.
Through Henderson he developed an appreciation for and aptitude for classical form and traditional working methods. An excellent draftsman and an acute observer of the human form, Marta continues to explore the subtleties of the figure through a broad range of materials and techniques.
In his contemplative landscapes, Mr. Marta, painting in Maine, Massachusetts, and on his native Long Island seeks to capture the vanishing beauty of the land and mans’ impact on his environment.
Marta currently teaches figure drawing at the Art League of Long Island. His work is represented in private collections, in the collection of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and has been published numerous times in the Art Students League catalog.
1993 Sea Cliff Public Library. Sea Cliff, N.Y.
2001 “The Sensuous Landscape: Work by Craig Marta and Marilyn Turtz”
Heckscher Museum at Bryant Library, Roslyn, N.Y.
2000 "Labscapes 2000" Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
1994 "Long Island Landscapes" Lizan-Tops Gallery. East Hampton, N.Y.
1992 "Political Winter" One Square Mile Gallery. Sea Cliff, N.Y.
1992 "The Summertime Blues" One Square Mile Gallery. Sea Cliff, N.Y.
1991 "The Artists Are Coming" Sea Cliff Beach Exhibit. Sea Cliff, N.Y.
1991 Art Students League of New York. 215 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y.
1990 "The Artists Are Coming" Sea Cliff Beach Exhibit. Sea Cliff, N.Y.
1990 Honorable Mention. Art Students League of New York. 215 West 57th Street,
New York, N.Y.
1989 Best in Show. Art Students League of New York. 215 West 57th Street,
New York, N.Y.
1989 Salmagundi Club. 47 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.
1988 Honorable Mention. Art Students League of New York. 215 West 57th Street,
New York, N.Y.
1987 Art Students League of New York. 215 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y.