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Maryland Moments | A Baltimore sculptor’s lasting impact on our city
By Shannon Lilly, Fox 45 News Friday, June 2, 2023 BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Driving around the city, you see them every day: landmarks that paint the Baltimore skyline, backdrops to our busy lives. But look again. You may not have noticed some windows on the front of City...
Mystic Materiality in the Round: Zoë Charlton’s ‘Smokey Hallow’ and ‘The Foundations of What’
February 24, 2023Fanni Somogyi This month, two Baltimore exhibitions demonstrate the otherworldly storytelling power of objects: Zoë Charlton’s Smokey Hallow, a solo exhibit at Maryland Art Place which includes found and cast sculpture, prints, and monumental...
Art Basel Miami Beach at Twenty: Bmore Galleries Shine, Madonna Celebrates “Sex” on the Beach, and Hotel Sleaze Makes a Comeback
December 9, 2022Michael Anthony Farley, Bmore Art Last week, Art Basel Miami Beach turned twenty. It’s hard to overstate how extremely the once-unlikely Floridian spinoff of the highbrow Swiss art fair has transformed both the global art market and its host city. In...
2021 Hugo Awards
The 2021 Hugo Awards Presented at: DisCon III, Washington, DC, USA Hosts: Andrea Hairston, Sheree Renée Thomas Base design: Sebastian Martorana Awards Administration: Linda Deneroff, Fred Bauer, Kevin Standlee, Sharon Sbarsky, Kathy Bond, Kat Jones, Cassidy...
The Kreeger Museum has reopened, with an art exhibition that probes the vestiges of the past
The Kreeger Museum has reopened, with an art exhibition that probes the vestiges of the past By Mark Jenkins The Washington Post April 13, 2021 The title of the exhibition “Traces” at the newly reopened Kreeger Museum suggests a collection of wisps and glimmers. In...
Art and Dance by the Sea
Foster's Daily DemocratJun 23, 2019Read the full article here. The Ogunquit Museum of American Art (OMAA) announces its 66th season program schedule featuring renowned artists, poets, authors and the first of its kind, modern dance performance in the galleries. The...
Hi-Fructose Magazine: Sebastian Martorana’s Sculptures Forged in Reclaimed Marble
Great feature in Hi-Fructose by Andy Smith. Follow this link or click the image to see the write up.
Inspiration is bright spark cast by American craft at Renwick Gallery
Smithsonian Insider July 27, 2016 Read the full article here. A dynamic new presentation of 80+ objects celebrating craft as a discipline and approach to living differently in the modern world has just opened at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art...
Skilled Artisans: Expert craftspeople create beautiful and functional objects
Beyond, Alaska Airlines Magazine July 1, 2016 By Lora Shinn Sebastian Martorana straddles the line between art and craft, utility and beauty. At age 21 he apprenticed with a company outside of in Washington, D.C., as an undergraduate student, under the lead of Tim...
Seasons Magazine – Russia
So this is my first appearance in a Russian publication, Seasons Magazine -- but not the first time I've shared article space with Alasdair Thomson. The article is Titled "Pygmalion," and I understand that it is featuring the work of three contemporary stone sculptors...
Bourdain on Craftsmanship, Whisky and Plans for Houston
Houston Press November 5, 2015 By Phaedra Cook Anthony Bourdain is in Houston for a brief series of events called The Balvenie Rare Craft Collection. About 800 lucky Houstonians were able to score a spot to hear Bourdain speak and taste some of The Balvenie's...
America’s Best Craftsmen From Anthony Bourdain
Forbes October 7, 2015 By Hunter Atkins News of Anthony Bourdain's partnership with The Balvenie Single Malt Whisky surprised diehard fans. Although Bourdain (author of Kitchen Confidential, star of CNN's "Parts Unknown" and food media hero) has departed from his...
Captain Marble: An Interview with Sculptor Sebastian Martorana with Photo Essay by Justin Tsucalas, BmoreArt
BmoreArt June 18, 2015 By Cara Ober It’s rare to find a contemporary sculptor skilled in the ancient craft of carving marble. It’s even more rare to find one in Baltimore. This is one of the reasons that Sebastian Martorana’s marble towels, which appear pliable enough...
Bmore Art’s Cara Ober on the Walter’s Art Museum Show
Living Marble: A Contemporary- Historical Collaboration at the Walters, BmoreArt Cara Ober, May 18, 2015 The Walters Art Museum is widely known as a house of rare objects of antiquity, but not a place for contemporary art. When Julia Marciari-Alexander became the...
Carving Out a Legacy, The Baltimore Sun
It's my great surprise and honor to be sharing ink in Sunday The Baltimore Sun News Paper this morning with, not only #Rinehart & Oprah Winfrey, but fellow Baltimore-boy, Mike Rowe !!! #rad You can check out the article, Carving Out a Legacy, about the Walters...
New exhibit at Walters Art Museum showcases the statues of Maryland artist William Rinehart
The Baltimore Sun April 11, 2015 By Mary Carole McCauley At a first look and even at a second, you'd swear it was magic. Those three white towels, two folded neatly and the third rumpled and hanging every which way — surely they're made of terrycloth and purchased at...
Carved in Stone
Carved in StoneSebastian Martorana employs age-old techniques to create sculptures that reflect modern life By Tina Coplan Home and Design Read the full article here Steady tapping breaks the lunchtime stillness at Hilgartner Natural Stone Company. Sebastian...
Marble steps reused as gathering place
The Baltimore Sun June 29, 2014 By Meredith Cohn Alice Johnson noticed the checker boards that recently popped up behind her house, a neat brick rowhouse in the Barclay neighborhood of Baltimore. "People will definitely use them," she said. "I play. I wish I could...
40 Under 40 Documentary Available Online and FREE!
For those who missed it or don't get the Smithsonian Channel, the documentary that was produced about the Renwick Gallery's 40 Under 40 exhibition is now available FREE online through iTunes! This film included a feature filmed in my studio at Hilgartner Natural Stone...
‘40 Under 40: Craft Futures’ Salutes Young Artists
The New York Times August 1, 2012 By Julie Lasky In 1972, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum was created as a home for arts, crafts and design. Four decades later, the gallery is celebrating the evolution and happy confusion of those...
Chiseled: How Sebastian Martorana Mastered Marble
There's a great article by Sarah Richards in the June 2012 issue of Maryland Life magazine about my work. The Icons featured prominently, as well as a large carving I was working on for the renovation of Gilman Hall at Johns Hopkins University with Hilgartner Natural...