Tony Marsh
Tony Marsh [b. 1954, New York, NY] is a sculptor and ceramicist based in Long Beach, California. Marsh’s ceramic forms of the past dozen years emerge from his intensive study of ceramic material behavior and thermal adversity, ranging from the topographic and heavily textured surfaces of his Cauldrons and Crucibles series to the vibrant and lustrous glazes of his Spill and Catch works. Referring metaphorically to both geophysical science and artistic forms of creation, Marsh’s vessels explore the highly transformational nature of these materials by posing an argument between gravity and the flow of molten materials through heating and cooling cycles. There is no note taking in his process, making each work an irreplicable product of multiple firings and intuitive addition or subtraction of surface materials.
Marsh has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions since 1992, and his work has been shown at public institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA; and the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY. Marsh’s work is in a number of prestigious international collections including the; Metropolitan Museum of Art NY, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY; and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX among others.
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Tony Marsh Does Ceramics His Way at Long Beach Museum of Art
Shana Nys Dambrot, LA Weekly, December 29, 2022 -
Frieze Los Angeles / Snapshot
Natalie Kovacs, The Design Edit, February 21, 2022 -
Opening This Week in LA
Artsy, February 17, 2022 -
Tony Marsh
Ceramics Now, February 8, 2022 -
Why California Has Become a Hotbed for Ceramic Art
Julie Belcove, Robb Report, July 17, 2021 -
(L.A. in N.Y.) Thomas Fougeirol | Tony Marsh at albertz benda January 7 -- February 12, 2021
Leah Ollman, Carla, June 17, 2021 -
Review: After 10-year absence, Tony Marsh is back with a show of riveting, volcanic beauty
Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, November 19, 2019 -
Art Review: At Frieze New York, Islands of Daring
Martha Schwendener & Will Heinrich, New York Times, May 2, 2019 -
CSULB Professor and Ceramicist Tony Marsh Awarded United States Artist Fellowship
Asia Morris, Long Beach Post, January 19, 2018
TONY MARSH
B. 1954, New York, NY
Currently lives and works in Long Beach, CA
EDUCATION
1988 MFA, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University
1981–1978 Apprenticeship with Tatsuzō Shimaoka, Shimaoka Pottery,
Mashiko, Japan
1978 BFA, California State University, Long Beach, CA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Museum of Art & Design, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary International Ceramic Art, Inchon, S. Korea
The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
San Jose Museum of Art
Boise Art Museum, Idaho
Oakland Museum of Art
The Archie Bray Collection, Helena, Mo
Minneapolis Institute for the Arts
Taipei Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
Maher Collection, Scripps College, Claremont
Racine Art Museum, Racine WI
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Foshan Museum of Contemporary Art, Foshan, China
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Daum Museum, Missouri
Cranbrook Museum of Art
Resnik Collection of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado
Mendocino Art Center
General Mills Corporation
Alfred University
Monterey Museum of Art
Napa College
Walnut Creek Art Center
Takumi Folk Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
JINRO Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Hong-Ik University, Seoul, South Korea
Palo Alto Cultural Center
Downey Museum of Art
Anderson Consulting, Los Angeles
AT&T Headquarters Cerritos, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Brilliant Earth: The Ceramic Sculpture of Tony Marsh, Long Beach
Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2021 Tony Marsh: New Work: Neo-Crucibles, Lora Reynolds Gallery,
Austin, TX
Thomas Fougeirol and Tony Marsh (two-person exhibition), albertz
benda, New York, NY
2020 Sarah Amos | Tony Marsh (two-person exhibition), Patricia Sweetow
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Like Water Uphill, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
True North, Koenig & Clinton, Brooklyn, NY
Cauldrons & Crucibles: In search of the sublime, Lora Reynolds
Gallery, Austin, TX
2018 Peter’s Projects, Santa Fe, NM
Harvey Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO
Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2015 Pierre Marie Giraud Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2014 Harvey Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO
Hedge Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, Belgium
Hedge Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, Belgium
2007 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Harvey Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO
2004 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
Chosun Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2001 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA
Toh-Art Space, Seoul, South Korea
1993 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Material Knowledge, Arsenal Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Painting in the Dark, James Cohan, New York, NY
2021 Ceramic Now!, Galerie Italienne, Paris, France
THIS IS AMERICA, Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin, Germany
2020 Pacific Coast Ceramics, Galeria Mascota, Aspen, CO
45 at 45, L.A, Louver, Los Angeles, CA
Object & Thing, Noyes House, New Canaan, CT
Andrea Gill, John Gill, Tony Marsh, Harvey Preston Gallery,
Aspen, CO
2019 Material Properties, albertz benda, New York, NY
Cool Clay: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Ceramics,
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
+8–, SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong, China
CLAY, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
Visceral Clay: Look don't touch, curated by Mark Del Vecchio,
Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM
Tony Marsh - Nancy Selvin - Linda Sormin, Patricia Sweetow
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Funk to Punk, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
2015 Harvey Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO
Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju, South Korea
West Coast, Seven LA Artists, Lefebvre & Fils, Paris, France
2009 Variations of White, Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels,
Belgium
2005 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Japan/USA: A Cross Cultural Exchange, Santa Fe Clay,
Santa Fe, NM
Contemporary Ceramics, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose,
CA