Marsha Cottrell | |
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| Born | 19 February 1964 Philadelphia, PA |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Tyler School of Art–BFA;The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill–MFA |
| Known for | Works on paper, drawing, drawing, prints |
| Website | http://www.marshacottrell.com/ |
Marsha Cottrell (born 1964) is an American artist.
Cottrell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1964. She now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. [1] Cottrell was educated at Tyler School of Art, Temple University where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she received a Masters of Fine Arts. [2]
Cottrell was trained as a painter, but while working in the production department of a magazine in the late 1990s she began to utilize a prosaic office printer and began layering periods, commas, brackets, and other forms to create compositions. Through a process of running paper through printer again and again, these cropped, resized and distorted shapes developed into unique works on paper. [3] Cottrell described the change from painting to her new art-making method in the following terms: "Since I couldn't be in my studio, it was natural for me to consider how I might use the tools in my immediate environment." [4] When a work on paper is completed Cottrell deletes the corresponding digital file, emphasizing the physicality of the object and placing her practice in opposition to cyberart and similar movements. [3]
Cottrell often uses high quality mulberry paper in her works – allowing the iron oxide toner to build up on the surface over the course of multiple runs through a printer. [5] The artist, who typically works in grayscale, debuted her first works in color at a 2021 exhibition with her New York gallery, Van Doren Waxter. [6]
In 2019, Cottrell received an Anonymous Was A Woman award, [7] and is also a recipient of the 2013 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Biennial Award; the 2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Fellowship Grant in Drawing; the 2004 Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, Educational Grant; the 2003 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Grant in Drawing; the 2001 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship; the 1999 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Grant in Digital Arts; and the 1999 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Space Program. [8]
| Year | Exhibitions |
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| 1998 | Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY [9] |
| 2000 | Punctuation Drawings, Revolution Gallery, Detroit, MI [10] |
| 2003 | g-module, Paris, France [10] |
| 2012 | Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany [11] |
| 2015 | Eleven Rivington, New York, NY [5] |
| 2016 | Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA [8] |
| 2017 | Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany [12] |
| 2018 | Screen Life, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY [13] |
| 2019 | Marsha Cottrell: Black and Light, Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, Raleigh, NC [14] |
| 2021 | Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY [6] |
Marsha Cottrell's work is featured in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; [15] the Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; [16] Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY; [17] Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany; [18] Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; [19] National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; [20] North Carolina Museum of Art, NC; [21] Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; [22] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA [1]
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