Wendi Turchan-Martin (b. 1986) is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the relationship between the language of painting and the structure of weaving. She creates woven paintings that reference landscapes, domestic interiors, maternal bodies, and everyday experiences. Through an intuitive process boundaries blur—between soft and hard, personal and abstract, surface and structure. Her work is a quiet, persistent act of unraveling and remaking, exploring how histories, emotions, and spaces are held and transformed through material.
Turchan-Martin holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. Selected exhibitions include Disjecta (Portland, OR), Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), Ceres Gallery (New York, NY), and the Museum of Wisconsin Art (West Bend, WI). She has been awarded artist residencies at the Peninsula School of Art and Playa at Summer Lake.
In addition to her studio practice, she leads workshops focused on creativity and experimentation within 2D art practices. She has taught foundations-level courses at universities in Oregon and Wisconsin and recently served as a Museum Educator at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.