Martryce Roach

I create vibrant landscapes layered with geometric shapes, architecture, and figures. It’s like visual jazz; it is wildly exhilarating and improvisational, providing a fun visual escape. My work invites minds to different perspectives, allowing for complex conversations. I experiment with images to deliver messages about challenges impacting communities and to spread awareness about social issues. It really brings me great joy to my pages dance with ideas.

Recently, I have become deeply inspired by how elements of our environments shape us. My new work explores the intersection between physical space and human behavior. To me, life is filled with twists, blocks, turns and waves. How we swerve through those changes tells a powerful story and makes for a magical visual.

Martryce Roach earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health and Africana Studies and a Master’s Degree in Social Work. Working with people, resolving problems, advocating for change, fighting against injustice, teaching coping skills, and inspiring resilience have shaped a lot of the context for this artist’s work.

NJ Arts Annual: Reemergence
New Jersey State Museum
205 W State Street, Trenton, NJ
On View through April 30, 2023

Art in the Atrium, Inc. & Novartis Pharmaceuticals
THE UNIVERSE IN BLACK
One Health Plaza, East Hanover, NJ
On View through March 28, 2023

ArtVibez presents RISE ABOVE
Howard County Welcome Center
8267 Main Street, Ellicott City, MD
On View through April 30, 2023

Woman Made Gallery
WINDOWS TO THE INSIDE: EXPRESSIONS OF MENTAL HEALTH
Virtual Exhibition
Chicago, Il
On View through April 30, 2023

Ely Center of Contemporary Art
DIGITAL GRACE Online Gallery
New Haven, CT
Details coming soon

Kente Royal Gallery
Annual Women’s History Month Exhibition
2372 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd, New York, NY
March 4 – 25, 2023

WOMEN CELEBRATE WOMEN 2023
El Barrios Artspace PS 109
215 E 99 St., New York, NY
March 10 – March 19, 2023

BlkArthouse presents: THE BLK CHILD: OUR NEW SUPERHERO
Above Art Studios
55B Morris Street, New Brunswick, NJ
March 11 – March 31, 2023