Orr Marshall
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707-445-0118
http://orrmarshall.com
Art has been Orr Marshall's passion since childhood, through early schooling and at Yale University where he majored in art as an undergraduate and continued in graduate art school, studying with Josef Albers. He was a student assistant teacher of drawing and design at Yale School of Art and Architecture, and has taught at California College of the Arts in the San Francisco area, at College of the Redwoods in Eureka and in Humboldt State University extension classes.. Between teaching stints he spent five years in Japan with a Japanese government scholarship to study at the National University of Fine Arts in Tokyo. His work is in collections throughout the U.S. and in Japan, and has been exhibited in museum shows, including a large retrospective at the Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, December 2006 ~ February 2007. His painting Graffiti Girl was included in an exhibition at the newly rebuilt M.H. de Young Museum in San Francisco, October~November 2005. Ideas for his work come from many sources: imagination, dreams, everyday surroundings, his earlier artwork, or any combination of the above. He develops an image through a series of sketches, studies, even small paintings, to prepare for the final work. His interest in experimentation has led to a variety of approaches, based in representation but ranging from real to almost surreal, incorporating methods such as painting in dots or in squares, drawing with black and white patterns, or combining visual images with verbal elements.A dominant influence has been his study of languages and cultures, particularly Japanese language and calligraphy. When dealing with Japanese subject matter he likes to contrast the modern and traditional aspects of culture as they coexist in contemporary Japan. The range of his work in various media, and the development of ideas from first sketches to finished works, can be seen at his website, listed above.Here are direct links to larger images of the works in the gallery at right --Graffiti GirlManga Fan: Sonya-MandalaCustoms of the Boss Lady, ContinuedSayoko and the Magic UmbrellaThe AudienceStudio PortraitGarden Party with GuestRozodaliskX & YLittle Me
