email: katiemarshallstudio@gmail.com
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My paintings stem from impressions and memories of long drives, often made alone. They are my contribution to the American myth of the road as a place to experience freedom, adventure, and self-actualization, expanding and subverting a canon created largely by men. Using the road as an existential metaphor, I paint richly colored, lyrical landscapes that incorporate borrowed texts, roadside architecture, and references to music and the human body to represent complicated emotional and psychic states.
Katie Marshall has a degree in Russian Literature from Reed College and an MFA from Cal State Long Beach (CSULB). Prior to getting her MFA she worked as a Russian translator; she is now a painter and a Lecturer in the CSULB School of Art.