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Marsha Cottrell

Marsha Cottrell

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    View works. Marsha Cottrell, Untitled (Mixed Dark_Red, Yellow, Blue, Green), 2022
    Untitled (Mixed Dark_Red, Yellow, Blue, Green), 2022
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    MARSHA COTTRELL (b. 1964) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Cottrell was educated at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MFA) and Tyler School of Art (BFA). Cottrell is 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. Cottrell has had solo exhibitions at Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco (2016); Eleven Rivington (2015), New York, NY; g-module, Paris, France (2003); Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY (2003); Gaga, New York, NY (2000), among others. Group exhibitions include Gray Matters, organized by Michael Goodson, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Worlding: Lucas Blalock, Marsha Cottrell, Ben Hagari, Ajay Kurian, and Hayal Pozanti, organized by Mia Curran, University of Western Michigan, 2017; One Third White, Kunst im Tunnel (KIT), Dusseldorf, Germany, 2013; and Field Conditions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 2012. Selected public collections include The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
     
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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Marsha Cottrell, Untitled (6:45:31), 2019

    Marsha Cottrell

    Untitled (6:45:31), 2019
    Laser toner on paper, unique
    11 x 8 1/2 inches (27.9 x 21.6 cm)
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  • Exhibitions
    • installation view

      Small is Beautiful

      2nd Floor Gallery February 6 - April 4, 2025
      Van Doren Waxter is pleased to present Small is Beautiful, an exhibition of small-scale works by 22 artists, both familiar and new faces to the gallery’s program. The exhibition features...
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    • installation view

      Sewn Burnt Folded Drawn Painted Collaged

      Special Presentation: 3rd Floor January 12 - February 26, 2022
      Caetano de Almeida Marsha Cottrell Richard Diebenkorn Moira Dryer Jeronimo Elespe Robert Mangold Harvey Quaytman Alan Shields Anne Truitt Jack Tworkov
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    • a group of ten framed works on a white wall

      Marsha Cottrell

      2nd Floor September 8 - October 23, 2021
      Van Doren Waxter is delighted to present a solo show of Marsha Cottrell’s recent work, on view from September 8 – October 23, 2021. The exhibition will be her third...
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    • Gaze

      Gaze

      August 1 - 30, 2018
      Van Doren Waxter is pleased to present Gaze, a multigenerational group exhibition which explores multidisciplinary approaches to depicting forms found in or related to the natural world. Featured historical and...
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      Marsha Cottrell

      Screen Life: 195 Chrystie St March 8 - April 21, 2018
      Van Doren Waxter is delighted to present a solo exhibition of new work by New York artist Marsha Cottrell. Titled Screen Life, the show will be on view from March...
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    • Summer Exhibition

      Summer Exhibition

      June 8 - July 29, 2016
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    • Marsha Cottrell

      Marsha Cottrell

      February 27 - April 5, 2015
      MARSHA COTTRELL February 27 – April 5, 2015 | 11 Rivington St & 195 Chrystie St, NY Eleven Rivington is delighted to present Marsha Cottrell’s first solo show with the...
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    • Group Show

      Group Show

      The Actual December 11, 2014 - February 15, 2015
      Group Show The Actual December 11 – February 15, 2015 | 11 Rivington St & 195 Chrystie St, NY Marsha Cottrell | Sara Cwynar | Jessica Eaton | John Houck...
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    • Open Range

      Open Range

      February 25 - March 20, 2004
      Group exhibition Curated by Augusto Arbizo and Sima Familant Marsha Cottrell Benjamin Edwards Dan Hays Caitlin Masley Douglas Melini Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery is pleased to present a thematic...
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  • News
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      Day Jobs

      Marsha Cottrell | Cantor Arts Center March 6, 2024
      This exhibition examines the overlooked impact of day jobs on the visual arts. Success for artists is often measured by their ability to quit a...
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  • Publications
    • Marsha Cottrell

      Marsha Cottrell

      September 2016
      Book, Softcover, 18 pages
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  • Art fairs
    • installation view

      Art Basel Miami Beach

      Booth G4 December 6 - 8, 2024
      Van Doren Waxter will present a select group of works that embody expressionism and restraint. The variety of formalist impulses behind this concept will be...
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      Art Basel Miami Beach

      December 1 - 3, 2022
      Main Booth Marsha Cottrell Karin Davie Moira Dryer Judy Fiskin Helen Frankenthaler Carmen Herrera Vera Molnar Mariah Robertson Dorothea Rockburne Jackie Saccoccio Hedda Sterne Anne...
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    • The Armory Show

      The Armory Show

      September 9 - 11, 2022
      Works By: Caetano de Almeida Marsha Cottrell Jeronimo Elespe Jessie Henson David Hockney Volker Hüller Joshua Nathanson Evan Nesbit Gareth Nyandoro Mariah Robertson Brian Rochefort...
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    • Dallas Art Fair

      Dallas Art Fair

      April 21 - 24, 2022
      Caetano de Almeida James Brooks Marsha Cottrell Richard Diebenkorn Jeronimo Elespe Jessie Henson Hans Hofmann Volker Hüller Robert Motherwell Joshua Nathanson Evan Nesbit Harvey Quaytman...
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    • The Armory Show

      The Armory Show

      September 10 - 12, 2021
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      The Armory Show

      March 5 - 8, 2020
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    • The Art Show

      The Art Show

      February 27 - March 3, 2020
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  • Press
    • Mistakes in the Matrix Marsha Cottrell Summons Beauty From Machines

      by R.C. Baker, The Village Voice, April 6, 2018
    • Galleries Get It Right: NYC’s Not-to-Miss Spring Exhibitions Are All Female Solos

      by Margaret Carrigan, New York Observer, March 7, 2018
    • 9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week

      ARTnews, March 5, 2018
    • The Art & Music Issue

      Cultured, March 3, 2018
    • 39 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York This March

      by arah Cascone & Caroline Goldstein, Artnet News, March 1, 2018
    • Awkward Technologies: Marsha Cottrell Brings A Human Touch To The Laser Printer

      by Margaret Carrigan, Blouin Artinfo, March 4, 2017
    • Marsha Cottrell at Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco

      ARTnews, October 11, 2016
    • A Laser Printer Made These Ghostly Abstract Images

      by Liz Stinson, WIRED Magazine, September 26, 2016
    • MARSHA COTTRELL

      Eleven Rivington
      by Prudence Peiffer, Artforum, July 10, 2015
    • Marsha Cottrell

      2015 Exhibition Press, April 5, 2015
    • The Lookout

      MARSHA COTTRELL at Eleven Rivington
      Art in America, April 2, 2015
    • ARTSEEN

      MARSHA COTTRELL: Eleven Rivington
      by Taney Roniger, The Brooklyn Rail , April 2, 2015
    • Marsha Cottrell

      by Peter Plagens, The Wall Street Journal , March 27, 2015
    • THE DELICIOUSNESS OF STAYING STILL

      MARSHA COTTRELL AT ELEVEN RIVINGTON
      by David Brody, Artcritical, March 20, 2015
    • Marsha Cottrell at Eleven Rivington

      by Martha Schwendener, The New York Times, March 19, 2015
    • Marsha Cottrell

      by R.C. Baker, The Village Voice, March 19, 2015
    • Critics' Pick

      MARSHA COTTRELL
      By Zoë Lescaze, Artforum, March 6, 2015
    • MARSHA COTTRELL

      by David Brody, ArtNews, March 1, 2012

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