Sunday, Oct 11, 2026
59,411 — In Relation Walk with Amanda Martínez
Photo by Yael Malka of Amanda Martínez creating work for Fishers Island as a Fellow in 2025.
About
Named for the number of steps it is rumored to take to walk the perimeter of the island, 59,411 is an evolving, multi-part project examining the history, aesthetics, possibilities, and politics of walking, curated by Laurel Ptak. Unfolding throughout this summer and fall, join us on Sunday, October 11th for the final artist-led walk in this series with past Lighthouse Works Fellow Amanda Martínez.
Artist Amanda Martínez leads an hour-long morning walk from 11am–noon through the Parade Grounds of Fishers Island. Along the way we’ll navigate her site-specific way markers inside the landscape that consider walking as relationship and champion reciprocity, attention, and slowness.
Artist
Bio
Amanda Martínez: b. 1988, Greenville, SC (Tsalagihi Ayeli) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY (Lenapehoking). Inventing her own language of geometric abstraction, fashioning stencils or “profiles” of undulating shapes as distinct units of measurement, she maps out and carves her sculptures into discrete building blocks with infinite possible configurations. Martínez's work draws upon her intergenerational family history of working in adobe (earthen construction) as well as the visual languages of southwestern vernacular architecture and craft movements. Martínez received her Bachelors in Fine Arts from Kansas City Art Institute. She recently completed Cercado, an installation in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden as part of the Ankhlave Garden Project Fellowship and will be the 2026 artist in residence at Drew University. Solo presentations of her work include The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; Ridgefield, CT; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan; Here Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA; HESSE FLATOW, New York, NY and elsewhere. Her work has been reviewed in Curbed, Surface Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times among others.
