Marsha Cottrell

Marsha Cottrell (* 1964 in Philadelphia , USA ) is an internationally known artist.

Life

Marsha Cottrell was born in Philadelphia, USA in 1964. In 1988 she began studying painting at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park , Pennsylvania . In 1990 she moved to the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill , North Carolina .

Marsha Cottrell started out as a painter. For many years, however, she has been replacing canvas and brushes with page layout programs and lasser printers, smashing text into its basic graphic elements and assembling them into large-format drawings.

She not only tests different papers, but also multiple prints, very slightly shifted prints from the same original file, which can lead to controlled blurring and moiré effects and also enables denser black tones. This creates glued image fields from printouts in standard sizes, with the help of which your files can be brought into image arrangements the size of cinema screens.

Prices

2014 Luis Comfort Tiffany Grant, NY
2007 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Fellowship Grant in Drawing
2004 Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, Educational Grant
2003 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Grant in Drawing
2001 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship
Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, NYSCA funded Residency

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2014 Petra-Rinck-Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2013 NADA New York, solo presentation, USA
- Drawing Now Paris, with Lothar Götz, FR
2012 Petra Rinck Gallery, Düsseldorf, DE
2008 Marsha Cottrell / Ferdinand Ahm Krag, SiteGalerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2003 Out of Memory, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY, USA

Group exhibitions (selection)

2013 Black / White, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, DE
- One third white, KIT, Düsseldorf, DE
2012 In equilibrium, matter is blind, Karin Sachs Gallery, Munich, DE
- Falling Through Space Drawn by the Line, UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY, USA
- Rockslide Sky, The Center Gallery, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York, USA
- Field Conditions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
2011 Cross-check, Petra Rinck Gallery, Düsseldorf, DE
2010 About The Details, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2009 2 × 3 × 10, Vertex List, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2007 More Possible Moves Than In Chess, Pluto, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2006 Twice Drawn, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
2005 NextNext Visual Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, USA
- New Turf, Fleming Museum, The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
- Decipher: Hand-Painted Digital, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Linear Geography, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2004 Airborne, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY, USA
- Landscape, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Feed, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, USA
- Architecture By Numbers, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, NY, USA
- Radial Gradient, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Open Range, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY, USA
2002 The Microwave, Cristinerose / Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- 25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, USA
- Wish You Were Here, Revolution, Detroit, MI, USA
- Pas de Deux, Revolution, Detroit, MI, USA
- Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at
- Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
- The Accelerated Grimace, Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Reconfigure, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Landscape, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2001 Un / Ruled, Exhibit A, New York, NY, USA
- Superimposition, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
- Drawing (Selected), g-module, Paris, FR
- Digital: Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2000 Spacetimelinks, Penzenstadler & Schaller Architects, Baar, CH
- Art On Paper 2000, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina Greensboro, NC, USA
- Blurry Lines, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, USA
- Drawing from Pierogi: Selections from Flat Files, Usdan Gallery, Bennington Col., Bennington, VT, USA
- Cyber Drawings, Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Bibliography (selection)

2013 Karen Rosenberg. The New York Times, "NADA NYC Art Fair at Basketball City"
2012 King, John. SFGate, "Architecture smaller in larger SFMOMA?"
- Marsha Cottrell, Drawings 2011–2012, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf
2005 Baker, Kenneth. Art News, "Radial Gradient"
- McQuaid, Cate. The Boston Globe, "Linear Geography"
2004 Chasin, Noah. Time Out New York, "Architecture by Numbers"
2003 Jara, Alicia. Lapiz, "Marsha Cottrell / Alan Wiener"
- Jana, Reena. Art On Paper, "Punctuation Marks"
- Rosin, Jessica. Art On Paper (online), "Marsha Cottrell"
- Johnson, Ken. The New York Times, Art Guide
- "Marsha Cottrell and Steve Robinson"
2002 Sirmans, Franklin. Time Out New York, "The Accelerated Grimace"
2001 Moody, Tom. Art Papers, "Palo Alto Dreamin '"
- Levin, Kim. The Village Voice, Shortlist, "Superimposition"
- Cotter, Holland. The New York Times, "Superimposition"
2000 Setz, Annemarie. Neue Zuger Zeitung, "Spacetimelinks"
- Schmerler, Sarah. Art On Paper, "Cyber Drawings"
- Viveros-Fauné, Christian. New York Press, "Computer World"
- Johnson, Ken. The New York Times, Art Guide, "Cyber Drawings"

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Cottrell, Marsha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Philadelphia , USA