Vanessa Marsh is an American contemporary painter born in Seattle in 1978. Her photography based-paintings explore the man-made, cosmological, and natural power. She received her B.A. in fine arts from Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA in 2001, and her M.F.A. in fine arts from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA in 2004. She works as a personal assistant, sometimes full time, sometimes part time, but she says it’s good for her art carreer because having lot of responsibilities is what is keeping her mind sharp and always ready to create. Memory and landscapes are central themes of Marsh’s work, but not simple memories of a landscape, but rather what the artist finds beautiful in them, what has caused her to remember them in the first place. It’s about reconnecting with familiar landscape that are longed for and missed.
Vanessa Marsh
Studios
Nef
Vanessa Marsh worked in the Nef studio.
Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…