Erica Kelly Martin is an American artist and photographer, based in Los Angeles, whose work centers on recurring themes of identity and stages of transformation.
She photographs people, often in their natural surroundings, depicting their rituals and the manifestations of their interior lives, as well as vernacular landscapes that show the mark of their current or past inhabitants. She is interested in themes of growing up, of putting on masks, or casting them aside, of who people are, or who they would like to be, and what they dream of or would like to create. She creates intimate portraits, often in prosaic places.
Martin studied at Amherst College and Hampshire College, the International Center of Photography in New York, the University of Chicago, and the Los Angeles Center of Photography. In addition to her photography work, Erica is a metalsmith, creating collectible pieces. She travels for assignment around the world, and lives and works in Los Angeles with her partner, children, and various rescue animals. Martin’s work has been shown in galleries and shows across the United States, as well as in Paris and Milan.
