Bob Marty (b. 1957) is a Connecticut-based artist whose layered mixed-media works investigate the accumulated detritus of language, memory, and popular culture. Working primarily on panel, Marty constructs densely worked surfaces that splice together text fragments, gestural mark-making, and found materials into compositions that oscillate between visual noise and deliberate structure. Marty's process is one of accretion and erasure. Text—often culled from advertising, product packaging, and vernacular speech—becomes both subject and material, colliding with painterly gestures to create palimpsestic fields that resist singular readings. His works bear the residue of their own making: surfaces are built up, scraped back, and reconfigured, resulting in objects that feel simultaneously constructed and excavated. Titles such as I'm So Stressed!, Scrambled, and Silent Noise underscore the tension between communication and breakdown that animates his practice. Born during the height of American consumer culture, Marty channels the visual overload of mass media into contained, meditative objects. His work draws on the lineage of American assemblage and combines it with a painterly sensibility rooted in Abstract Expressionism—a movement he has cited as formative, particularly Willem de Kooning's work. Marty has presented solo exhibitions at Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, New York (2008); Next Gallery, New York (2007); BooMA Gallery, New York (2006); and Encore Gallery, Block Island, Rhode Island (2002). His work has been included in group exhibitions at Reeves Art & Design, Houston, Texas (2023); Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn (2014); White Columns, New York; The Sculpture Center, Queens; Artist Space, New York; and The Proposition Gallery, New York, among others.Marty received his BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute. He lives and works in Connecticut.