ONLINE: Stephen Fleischman Lectureship March 24, 2021 Sculptor and performance artist Martin Kersels. A California native and graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, Martin Kersels is a sculptor, performance artist and videographer who often uses himself as a subject in his projects, which have been exhibited around the world. His first solo exhibition took place at the Madison Art Center, the forerunner to today's Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and Kersels will give a Facebook Live talk on his work and relationship to Madison as part of the lecture series named for retired director Stephen Fleischman. press release: About the Artist: Martin Kersels was born in Los Angeles, California. After he graduated with an undergraduate degree in art from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1984, he became a founding member of the collaborative performance group SHRIMPS. This group worked together on movement-based performances until 1993. Returning to UCLA for his MFA from 1992 to 1995, he began to create dynamic sculpturesâboth intimate and large, still and full of movementâas well as photography that documented performative moments, and videos that presented his body as an object.Â