Vanessa Marsh
Cover for Issue 345
Los Angeles
Issue 345 October 6, 2009
Born in Seattle, WA, Vanessa Marsh lives and works in San Francisco, CA. She received her MFA in 2004 from the California College of the Arts. She has shown extensively throughout the Bay Area, including exhibitions at the San Jose Museum of Art, Southern Exposure Gallery, the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. In 2007, she was awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship in Peterborough, NH. Her work can been seen at Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco.

To make her images, Marsh constructs miniature scenes out of models and natural elements, such as moss and grass, and photographs them against real backgrounds. Inspiration for the scenes is drawn from memories of human interactions and experiences of the landscapes of northern California and western Washington. As memory is a combination of both real and imagined elements, so too are the photographs. Alluding to different locations and experiences simultaneously, the images are of unknown, imagined places, yet are also evocative of something familiar.

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