Work

Work, Projects, and Commissions

Give Up the Ghost

Night Skulk – W.I.P. (2021 – )

Ocean (0-9). Or, After Robert Blanchon’s Wave (0-9), Or, Once Upon an Ocean Wave memory washed over on the ferry ride to Santa Cruz Islands to see the little foxes on the occasion of my fiftieth birthday with loved ones. Or, I remain.

Poems & Puzzling in Isolation

Save the Last Dance for Me

As part of exhibition To Know Herself curated by Yomna Osman at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, artist and CCA Provost Tammy Rae Carland created a commissioned performance installation titled Save the last dance for me (2019). Tammy Rae Carland invites visitors to dance with her to a looped, three-minute song performed by Los Angeles-based artist/musician Kelly Marie Martin, also commissioned for this piece. The music becomes audible only when participants stand on the re-created dance floor.

The Fellow Communards and Communal Fellows Box

The Fellow Communards and Communal Fellows Box was put together by the Llano Del Rio Collective in 2019, and sold as an addition of 40. It contains 13 print objects, each are unique documents of interpretations of mostly Southern Californian landspaces, made by friends of the collective. The box’s silk screen and spray paint design highlights the spectacular work of Kimberly Varella, collective member. Contents:
-Lisa Anne Auerbach: Thelmas Los Angeles, CA (from the Small Business Series)
-Kaucyila Brooke: The Boy Mechanic/Los Angeles
-City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division: There’s Something Happening Here… On the Sunset Strip 1966
-Sandra de la Loza: Pocho Research Society The October Surprise Project and Where the River Joins
-Llano Del Rio Collective: Rebel City Los Angeles
-Elana Mann: The People’s Microphony Songbook
-The Community of Bourj Al Shamali: Bourj Al Shamali Refuge Camp; A guide to our community
-Kelly Marie Martin with Joe Linton: The Root Down Ride Around
-Hillary Mushkin: DVIDS: Defense Visual Information Distribution
-Lize Mogel: Public Green
-Jed Parriott and Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal with the LA Tenants Union and Democratic Socialists of America: Echo Park Rising Rent
-Erin Schneider: Sec. 1008
-Rosten Woo with Little Tokyo Service Center: First Street North

Jonesy’s PACK

Jonesy’s PACK, at Klowden Mann was an exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Jonesy along with a group of artists he invited to create and physically stage hand-embellished vests or ‘cuts’ in a manner that recalls the initiation ritual of biker clubs, and that ritual’s extension into other subcultures.

Click Training

Sister Thou Art Mild and Lovely (2017)

A collaboration with artist Angelina Elise. She made the crankie and I sang this hymnal as an unaccompanied ballad I learned from a recording by Almeda Riddle.
Video produced by and for Old Time Tiki Parlour.

JayJee’s Bici Love (2017)

In the Service of the Song

Find Your Space at the Ford

Beauty Must Suffer

Get Hubbied Fall to Her Rush to Him

Get Hubbied was a multi-tiered project about the fragile yet resilient institution of marriage. Conceived and curated by artist Bettina Hubby and produced through her collaborative studio, HubbyCo., the project not only explored the idea of marriage through various media, but also took this investigation several steps further by staging, on September 25th, 2011, a genuine and legal wedding for couple, Bec & Ruben.

Kelly & David – Two Work Samples – Untitled Feather Chorale No. 01 and Contraption Spell

Excerpts from two works produced in collaboration with David Jones.

1. Untitled Feather Chorale No. 01 – performed at REDCAT’s FALL Studio and as part of Hubby’s CoTour in 2008. Performers (in addition to Kelly Marie Martin and David Jones) – Monica Howe, Tif Sigfrids, Evan Holloway and Ben Guzman.

2. Contraption Spell – created for REDCAT’s “New Original Works” Festival in 2007. Performers (in addition to Kelly Marie Martin and David Jones) – Monica Howe, MJ Silva, James McCarthy, Mary Clare Stevens, and Cameron Mesirow.

Costumes for both works designed by artist Bettina Hubby.