Georgia Marsh, 1999-2000

Georgia Marsh
Maurice Sanchez, printer
1999-2000

Workshop: December 1-3, 1999

Georgia Marsh received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1972. A participant in RISD’s European honors program, she also studied for a year in Rome. Marsh lived in Paris from 1973 to 1981, and then returned to New York City where she currently lives. She has received many awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1987 and 1989, an NEA International Fellowship through the La Napoule Foundation in France in 1990, and a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Fellowship in 1992. She has exhibited in many group and solo shows in France, Italy, and the United States.

For her workshop at Smith, Marsh created a series of delicate monoprints using a blend of abstract and representational imagery for which she has become particularly well known. In many of the prints, images of leaves were layered by printing on both sides of a sheet of translucent Asian paper.

Many of the leaves, twigs, and petals in Marsh’s monoprints were made from stencils derived from plant life gathered from Smith’s Lyman Plant House. Louise Kohrman Martindell, Smith class of 2002, recalled her role in this workshop as a first-year student: “It was especially exciting to be asked to go and gather these objects, to have permission to take from the greenhouse, and to then see the specimens which I selected be picked through and used in the prints directly as stencils. In this way, I felt directly involved in the making of the print.”

Georgia Marsh. American, 1950 –