Marsha Cottrell, Untitled, 2021
8,5 x 11’’ (21,59 x 27,94 cm) laser toner on paper, unique
Untitled, 2021, detail
Marsha Cottrell, Untitled (2:23:01pm), 2017
8.5 x 11 inch (21,59 x 27,94 cm) laser toner on paper, unique
Marsha Cottrell, Untitled, 2020
8,5 x 11’’ (21,59 x 27,94 cm) laser toner on paper, unique
Untitled, 2020, detail
Marsha Cottrell, Untitled (1:20:51pm), 2021
8,5 x 11’’ (21,59 x 27,94 cm) laser toner on paper, unique
Untitled (1:20:51pm), 2021, detail
Marsha Cottrell, Untitled (Notation), 2020
8,5 x 11’’ (21,59 x 27,94 cm) laser toner on paper, unique
Untitled (Notation), 2020 detail
Marsha Cottrell, Environments 13, 2018
8,5 x 11’’ (21,59 x 27,94 cm) laser toner on paper, unique
Marsha Cottrell, Environments 14, 2018
11 x 8,5 ‘‘ (27,94 x 21,59 cm) laser toner on paper, unique
Environments 19, 2018 detail
Marsha Cottrell, Interior 13, 2017
11 x 8,5 ‘‘ (27,94 x 21,59 cm) laser toner on paper, unique
Marsha Cottrell, Untitled (10:45:04am), 2017
11 x 8,5 ‘‘ (27,94 x 21,59 cm) laser toner on paper, unique
Marsha Cottrell, Environments 1, 2017
11 x 8,5 ‘‘ (27,94 x 21,59 cm) laser toner on paper, unique
Marsha Cottrell, Spectral Sun 24, 2017
8,5 x 11’’ (21,59 x 27,94 cm) laser toner on paper, unique
Marsha Cottrell, Untitled (10:32:45pm), 2017
12 x 18,5 inch (30,48 x 46,99 cm) laser toner on paper, unique
Marsha Cottrell, Aperture Series 49, 2016
11.625 x 18.125‘‘ (25 x 46 cm) laser toner on paper, unique
Marsha Cottrell, Aperture Series 52, 2017
11.625 x 18.125‘‘ (25 x 46 cm) laser toner on paper, unique
Marsha Cottrell, Aperture Series 53, 2017
11,625 x 18,125 ‘‘ (29,53 x 46,04 cm) laser toner on paper, unique

New York based artist Marsha Cottrell works with an electrostatic laser printer, offline computer, keyboard and screen to create intimately-scaled monochromatic work on paper. For Cottrell, the tools “intercept the flow of thought to material and introduce a feeling of resistance”, erasing a familiar kind of dexterity and the possibility of controlling an artistic gesture. A language of mathematically-determined geometric shapes and lines readily available in the software are the elements she organizes onscreen and sends to the printer to mark the handmade paper in carbon-based toner. Images develop slowly in countless layers or materialize instantly onto the page in what the artist has described as a kind of “alchemical transmutation of the virtual.” Using the tools not as they were intended—balancing intention and accident—Cottrell introduces friction into her process. Irregularities in the paper disrupt and enhance the translation; roller marks, folds and other random errors are registered. Images evoking visionary states, nature and the sublime document Cottrell’s open-ended exploration around the dualities of nature and technology, material and virtual, body and machine, mind and body.

Exhibitions

Selected exhibitions   The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY, US 18.01.-12.05.2019 “By any Means: Contemporary Drawing from the Morgan” group show

Marsha Cottrell
Installation view: By Any Means, Thaw Gallery, Photography by Graham S. Haber, 2019

Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus,  OH, USA 2017 “Grey Matters”, organized by Michael Goodson group show Marsha Cottrell San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,  CA, USA 2012 “Field Conditions” group show

installation views Matthew Millman

CV

Marsha Cottrell

* 1964 in Philadelphia, USA Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA 1990 M.F.A., Painting, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 1988 B.F.A., Painting, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park, PA

Fellowships/Awards

2019 Anonymous Was A Woman 2013 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Biennial Award 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 2002 The MacDowell Colony, Artist Residency 2001 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, NYSCA funded Residency 1999 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Grant in Digital Arts The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Space Program The MacDowell Colony, Artist Residency

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2023 Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA 2021 Van Doren Waxter, New York City, USA 2019 “Black and Light” CAM Raleigh,  Raleigh, NC, USA Solo Präsentation ADAA fair mit Anthony Meier Fine Arts, New York, USA 2018 Screen Life, Van Doren Waxter, New York, USA 2017 Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE 2016 Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, USA 2015 Eleven Rivington, New York City, USA Cottrell_Artforum PDF 2012 Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE 2008 Marsha Cottrell / Ferdinand Ahm Krag, SiteGalerie, Düsseldorf, DE 2003 Out of Memory, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY , USA G-MODULE, Paris, France 2000 Punctuation Drawings, Revolution Gallery, Detroit, USA Two-person show with Alan Wiener, Gaga, New York, USA 1998 Derek Eller Gallery, New York, USA

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2023 Day Jobs, Blanton Museum of Art,The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (forthcoming) 2022 Gulliver´s Sketchbook, KAI10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION, Düsseldorf, DE 2021 The Way We Are 3.0, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, DE 2020 Together In The Round: Tammy Rae Carland, Marsha Cottrell, Zoe Leonard & Davina Semo, presented by Anthonie Meier Fine Arts & Silverman Gallery at 1969 California St, San Francisco, CA, USA 2019 The Bunker Artspace: The Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody, The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL, USA By any Means: Contemporary Drawing from the Morgan, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY, USA 2018 Gaze, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY, USA An Eccentric View, Mignoni, New York, NY, USA 2017 Gray Matters, Organized by Michael Goodson, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA Worlding, organized by Mia Curran, University of Western Michigan, Kalmazzoo, MI, USA 2016 In Neuen Räumen, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE Cosmic Connections TOTAH, New York, NY, USA 2015 The Actual, Eleven Rivington, New York, USA 2014 Mind The gap, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE 2013 Black/White, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, DE Ein Drittel Weiß, KIT, Düsseldorf, DE Flowery, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE 2012 Im Gleichgewicht ist die Materie blind, Galerie Karin Sachs, Munic, 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 Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE 2010 Der Kern Des Ganzen, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE About The Details, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE 2009 2 x 3 x 10, Vertex List, Brooklyn, NY, USA 2008 g-salon, g-module, Paris, FR 2006 Twice Drawn, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA 2004 Moukhtar Kocache, Erin Shirreff, Wditors, Site Matters, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s World Trade Center Artists Residency 1997–2001 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 Franciso, CA, USA Open Range, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY, USA 2003 The Drawn Page, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporrary Art, Ridgefield, USA Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, USA Online, Feigen Contemporary, New York, USA The Session if Sweet Silent Thought, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, USA Immediate Medium, Kenise BArnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY The Incredible Lightness of Being, Black&White Gallery, Brooklyn, 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 Déjà Vu, g-module, Paris, FR Pas de Deux, Revolution, Detroit, MI, USA Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Krannert Art Museum, Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA The Accelerated Grimace, Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY, USA Artists to Artists: A Decade of The Space Program, Ace Gallery, New York, 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 Architekten, 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 1999 Digital Sites, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC 1998 Group show, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, USA 1997 New York Drawers: Selections from Pierogi 2000, The Gasworks, London, UK Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA 1996 Summer Selections, The Drawing Center, New York, USA

News

Kai 10/Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, DE 10 March – 26 June 2022 “Gulliver´s Sketchbook” group show with Francesco Barocco, Sandra Boeschenstein, Dagmara Gendam, Stella Geppert and others curated by Ludwig Seifart