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Artist Statement
“My work relates to media that I consume and want to expound upon,” says Laura Marsh. She augments commercial images and stretches the life of everyday materials to manifest characters that bare an objectified gaze. Her characters hold a self-resemblance, bringing the artist closer to her subject matter and critiques. Marsh’s works on paper birth several costumes, performances, and spatially challenging installations.
Marsh reacts to advertising that depicts men and women as placeholders for idealized products. The artist inserts advertising media into drawings, sculptures, paintings, and video. Her mark making further abstracts, accentuates, and violates the co-opted imagery. Marsh salvages and combines gaudy materials, textures, and patterns to present surfaces that are dense and seductively charged.
“ I find that there are far too many networks, pop-up windows, and phrases competing for my attention. We live in an age of over-consumption and anti-privacy; as consumers, we are consistently allured and objectified.” Her work gawks, occasionally squawks, and gazes back at viewers to re-claim agency and power.
” If you could imagine Kafka laughing, this might be the picture that would give him cause…a wondrous pastiche with elements of a seventeenth century plague doctor and one of Aristophanes’ defiant birds. This apparently comic metamorphosis has been wrapped and threaded into a self-possessed, although bizarre, chic. But the masquerade is a revelation. The piece has the clown’s secret: in the midst of the absurdity, there is pure sorrow”- Stephen Kobasa, New Haven Independent.
“My work relates to media that I consume and want to expound upon,” says Laura Marsh. She augments commercial images and stretches the life of everyday materials to manifest characters that bare an objectified gaze. Her characters hold a self-resemblance, bringing the artist closer to her subject matter and critiques. Marsh’s works on paper birth several costumes, performances, and spatially challenging installations.
Marsh reacts to advertising that depicts men and women as placeholders for idealized products. The artist inserts advertising media into drawings, sculptures, paintings, and video. Her mark making further abstracts, accentuates, and violates the co-opted imagery. Marsh salvages and combines gaudy materials, textures, and patterns to present surfaces that are dense and seductively charged.
“ I find that there are far too many networks, pop-up windows, and phrases competing for my attention. We live in an age of over-consumption and anti-privacy; as consumers, we are consistently allured and objectified.” Her work gawks, occasionally squawks, and gazes back at viewers to re-claim agency and power.
” If you could imagine Kafka laughing, this might be the picture that would give him cause…a wondrous pastiche with elements of a seventeenth century plague doctor and one of Aristophanes’ defiant birds. This apparently comic metamorphosis has been wrapped and threaded into a self-possessed, although bizarre, chic. But the masquerade is a revelation. The piece has the clown’s secret: in the midst of the absurdity, there is pure sorrow”- Stephen Kobasa, New Haven Independent.
CV
Laura Marsh
lauralmarsh@gmail.com 216.255.0586
260 Moore Street
Brooklyn, NY
11206-3852
EDUCATION/ ARTIST TRAINING
2007-2009
M.F.A. Sculpture, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
Tilton Residency, Beijing, China
2001-2006
B.F.A. Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2004
Yale Summer School of the Arts and Music, Norfolk, CT
Travel Abroad, Bangalore, India
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2008
Traveling Grant, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2005
Ted Frost Scholarship, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2004
Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale Summer School of the Arts and Music, Norfolk, CT
EXHIBITIONS
2010
A-Space, Line-Dancing: A Writers Choice of Works on Paper, Assembled by Stephen Kobasa, West
Haven, CT
2009
Marc Jancou Contemporary, Careerists and Visionaries, New York, NY
2009
Jack Tilton Gallery, Handmade Wearable, New York, NY
2008
Artspace, Duo Performance, New Haven, CT
Art Center, Digital Productions, Beijing, China
2006
Cleveland Foundation, Heterotopias: Sites of Culture, Contested and Inverted, Group Show, Cleveland, OH
2005
Red Shoe Delivery Service, Traveling Exhibition,
New York, NY
2004
Survey Gallery, Tower of Babel II, Cleveland, OH
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Present
Adjunct Professor, Introduction to Digital Arts, Visual and Performing Arts Department, University of New Haven, CT
2009
Teaching Assistant, Senior Projects, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2006
Ceramics Specialist, Age groups 4 through 10, Ramapo Camp, Airmont, NY
2005
Teacher of 3D Constructions and Painting, Age groups 4 through 14, Waynflete School, Portland, ME
2001-2005
Teacher for YPC Classes, Ages of 5 and 14, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Present
Program Director, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2007-2008
Graduate Intern, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2006-2007
Manager, Area Emporium, Brooklyn, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
Stephen Kobasa, “Object Lesson,” New Haven Independent, Feb.
2006
Sreshta Premnath, “Ruin|Monument,” Shifter Magazine, Oct.
John Clemente, “Laura Marsh Winston Man,” Art Review Today, Jan.
Sreshta Premnath, “Jetlag,” Shifter Magazine, Feb.
Laura Marsh
lauralmarsh@gmail.com 216.255.0586
260 Moore Street
Brooklyn, NY
11206-3852
EDUCATION/ ARTIST TRAINING
2007-2009
M.F.A. Sculpture, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
Tilton Residency, Beijing, China
2001-2006
B.F.A. Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2004
Yale Summer School of the Arts and Music, Norfolk, CT
Travel Abroad, Bangalore, India
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2008
Traveling Grant, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2005
Ted Frost Scholarship, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2004
Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale Summer School of the Arts and Music, Norfolk, CT
EXHIBITIONS
2010
A-Space, Line-Dancing: A Writers Choice of Works on Paper, Assembled by Stephen Kobasa, West
Haven, CT
2009
Marc Jancou Contemporary, Careerists and Visionaries, New York, NY
2009
Jack Tilton Gallery, Handmade Wearable, New York, NY
2008
Artspace, Duo Performance, New Haven, CT
Art Center, Digital Productions, Beijing, China
2006
Cleveland Foundation, Heterotopias: Sites of Culture, Contested and Inverted, Group Show, Cleveland, OH
2005
Red Shoe Delivery Service, Traveling Exhibition,
New York, NY
2004
Survey Gallery, Tower of Babel II, Cleveland, OH
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Present
Adjunct Professor, Introduction to Digital Arts, Visual and Performing Arts Department, University of New Haven, CT
2009
Teaching Assistant, Senior Projects, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2006
Ceramics Specialist, Age groups 4 through 10, Ramapo Camp, Airmont, NY
2005
Teacher of 3D Constructions and Painting, Age groups 4 through 14, Waynflete School, Portland, ME
2001-2005
Teacher for YPC Classes, Ages of 5 and 14, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Present
Program Director, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2007-2008
Graduate Intern, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2006-2007
Manager, Area Emporium, Brooklyn, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
Stephen Kobasa, “Object Lesson,” New Haven Independent, Feb.
2006
Sreshta Premnath, “Ruin|Monument,” Shifter Magazine, Oct.
John Clemente, “Laura Marsh Winston Man,” Art Review Today, Jan.
Sreshta Premnath, “Jetlag,” Shifter Magazine, Feb.
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Dimensions: 24x40”
Medium: Graphite on paper
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Title: The Camera Is My LoverYear: 2010
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Dimensions: Variable
Medium: Masks and paint on fabric
Title: Polyester Harlequin Ensemble DetailYear: 2010
Dimensions: Variable
Medium: Fabric construction
Title: We Buy And Sell Every TimeYear: 2010
Dimensions: Variable
Medium: Graphite, fur, and trim on fabric
Title: She Was Punched In the Face By A Zip PaintingYear: 2010
Dimensions: 4x6’
Medium: Paint, plastic, fabric, and other mixed media
Title: She Was Punched In the Face By A Zip Painting DetailYear: 2010
Dimensions: 4x6’
Medium: Paint, plastic, fabric, and other mixed media
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Dimensions: 40x20”
Medium: Fabric, swimming noodle, and magazine models
Title: Fur Button Year: 2008
Dimensions: 12x40x30”
Medium: Fabric, plastic, and a zipper
Title: Sultry Awning Year: 2008
Dimensions: Variable
Medium: Fabric, plastic, swimming noodle, and bra parts
Title: American Hammer Year: 2007
Dimensions: Variable
Medium: Fabric and found objects
Title: American Hammer Year: 2007
Dimensions: Variable
Medium: Fabric and found objects
Title: BuntingsYear: 2007
Dimensions: 20x40”
Medium: Oil on canvas
Title: Beauty Spotlight, Squawk RightYear: 2010
Dimensions: 1x2x3’
Medium: Fabric, wood, magazine images, and other mixed media
Title: Beauty Spotlight, Squawk RightYear: 2010
Dimensions: 1x2x3’
Medium: Fabric, wood, magazine images, and other mixed media
Title: Beauty Is An Obtuse Angle Year: 2009
Dimensions: Variable
Medium: Fabric, found objects, video, and other mixed media
Title: Beauty Is An Obtuse Angle Year: 2009
Dimensions: Variable
Medium: Fabric, found objects, video, and other mixed media
Title: Beauty Is An Obtuse Angle Year: 2009
Dimensions: Variable
Medium: Fabric, found objects, video, and other mixed media