Marsha Cottrell

Marsha Cottrell studied at Tyler School of Art. Work by Marsha Cottrell is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship and Anonymous Was A Woman Award.

• Name — Marsha Cottrell • Born — 19 February 1964 • Birthplace — Philadelphia, PA • 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. 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. 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. 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." 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. 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. 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.

• Year — Exhibitions • 1998 — Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY • 2000 — Punctuation Drawings, Revolution Gallery, Detroit, MI • 2003 — g-module, Paris, France • 2012 — Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany • 2015 — Eleven Rivington, New York, NY • 2016 — Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA • 2017 — Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany • 2018 — Screen Life, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY • 2019 — Marsha Cottrell: Black and Light, Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, Raleigh, NC • 2021 — Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY