Martha grew up in Corpus Christi on the Texas Gulf Coast. She studied Studio Arts at Texas State University (formerly Southwest Texas State University) in San Marcos, Texas where she received a bachelor of arts degree. She then went on to earn a masters degree at The University of Texas at Austin in Studio Arts with an emphasis in Sculpture. After graduate school, Martha taught on the faculty at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the foundations and sculpture departments for ten years. Currently, Martha resides in and maintains her studio in Marfa, Texas. She considers herself a maker and has a passion for designing and building, as well as for painting. 

Gannon’s art seeks to fancy the superficial polarities of grief and joy, and resolve through whim and play. By such misdirection, our attempts to grasp the distant, eternalize the fleeting, and make sense of the incomprehensible become penetrating flashes of insight and reconciliation. Hopefully, the viewer experiences this work with a sense of curiosity and delight. 

Martha’s work has been exhibited both nationally in Austin, Dallas, Chicago, New York, Portland, Houston, San Antonio, Georgetown and Corpus Christi, and internationally in Spain and Hungary.