Martha's is pleased to present Elizabeth Maria Hudson's solo exhibiton, "Dream Soul." The artist's first show with the gallery is full of deep, dreamy, and poetic watercolor paintings.

Elizabeth Maria Hudson’s work is centered on Black American folklore and she is especially drawn to the tales collected by John Mason Brewer, who focused on black Texan stories. Interpreting this source material through the medium of watercolor, Hudson creates a visual language that honors and expands upon oral traditions, offering new ways to document and deepen our understanding of folklore and its significance in contemporary black rural life and cosmologies.

Elizabeth Maria Hudson (b. Los Angeles, 1989) is a watercolor figurative painter from Dallas, Texas. She studied painting and drawing at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and has a BA in history and art history from the University of Texas at Austin. She has exhibited at the George Washington Carver Museum, Big Medium, and Pencil on Paper Galley. She currently lives and works in Austin, Texas.

Each work is accompanied by a poem written by Elizabeth herself.