Vanessa Marsh

Vanessa Marsh’s practice explores the dialogue between man-made and natural landscapes—the world as we have made it and the natural cosmological power of the universe. Marsh combines layers of drawings on acetate with varying depths of opacity, employing them as films to expose on photographic paper. These new environments are formed from an amalgam of memorable places specific to her past along with our own collective memories of the night sky. It’s an invitation to join her in looking up at the stars from a place that may or may not exist for us. We occupy these spaces, these landscapes, with just enough familiarity to connect to, but not so much that we know exactly where we are.

Marsh first became interested in photography when her mother gave her a Nikon E series camera in ninth grade. Marsh has exhibited widely including the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, Foley Gallery, New York, and photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe. She has received fellowships from the Headlands Center for the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, Kala Art Institute and was AIR at Rayko Photo Center.

Courtesy of Foley Gallery