Martha Tuttle (born 1989 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) is an American artist whose work explores the boundaries between painting, textile, and sculpture. Her practice investigates our relationship with elemental materials and the environment around us, creating subtle, materially rich compositions that reflect on impermanence, place, and the tension between the organic and the constructed. Working with earth-derived materials—including plant dyes, mineral pigments, wool, linen, and silk—Tuttle constructs fragmented topographies that reconfigure geometric abstraction through the lens of the natural world. Her surfaces often incorporate stone, charred wood, and cast aluminum, creating nuanced tensions between opacity and transparency, weight and lightness, interior and exterior. Her compositions emphasize materiality through physical processes such as dyeing, weaving, and stitching, which run throughout her works using naturally sourced substances. Sections of translucent stretched silk are dyed with plant-based dyes and iron, while others are painted with mineral pigments, producing subtle, elemental fields of color. Visually, the marks on the silk evoke the fissures of geological formations. The visible stretcher bars, appearing to emerge and disappear behind these translucent sections, contribute to the compositional balance rather than functioning merely as structural supports. Combined with found minerals, these works resonate with broader geological questions, exploring how relationships can be forged with the geological world. During her residency at Atelier Calder, the artist developed an entirely new body of work in an environment closely aligned with her ongoing investigations into movement, performance, materiality, textiles, and sculpture. She designed and hand-sewed undyed garments, which she wore during endurance runs in natural landscapes. Sweat and the minerals released by her body left direct traces on the fabric. Following these performances, she transformed the textiles into wall works and sculptures, incorporating stones and plant materials collected along her routes. These gathered elements also became the basis for a series of cast aluminum sculptures. This body of work extends her research into the porous relationship between the body and the artwork, engaging in dialogue with artists such as Janine Antoni, Andrea Zittel, Cecilia Vicuña, and Matthew Barney, while also drawing on the mystical writings of Julian of Norwich and Marguerite Porete. Through practices rooted in textiles, sewing, and foraging, she explores materiality, endurance, and the expressive capacities of the female body. Martha Tuttle (born 1989 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) lives and works in Livingston, Montana, and received her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. She has presented solo exhibitions at the Moody Center for the Arts, Houston (2024), and Storm King Art Center, New York (2020–2021). Tuttle was an artist-in-residence at the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva (2019) and received a fellowship from the Josef Albers Foundation (2014). Her work is held in major public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.