Fred Marsh has exhibited his work nationally and internationally since 1978, most recently in Woodstock, Cleveland, Houston, Zhengzhou (China), Odense (Denmark), Salzburg (Austria), and San Francisco. His photographs are in the permanent collections of Cleveland Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, Museet for Fotokunst Brandts-Odense, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts–Houston, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, Stiftung Moritzburg Kunstmuseum, Halle, Technische Sammlungen Dresden, and Toledo Museum of Art, among others. Retired, Marsh taught photography at various colleges and universities since 1985, most recently for Columbus College of Art & Design, The Ohio State University, University of Georgia Studies Abroad in Cortona, Italy Program, and Otterbein University.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Photographing the landscape, both the natural and built environment, has been the mainstay of my photographic career. Work completed within the last twenty years in Europe, Asia, and the United States, has intertwined cross-disciplinary issues of aesthetics, contemporary history, as well as cultural and political geography. My projects have centered on specific places, often requiring extended periods of repeated fieldwork to complete. My approach to photography continues to evolve, embracing “the cruel radiance of what is,” as celebrated American author, James Agee once wrote. Drawn to the personal and quirky, driven as much by intuition and chance as by design, my recent photographs created in the Western United States, continue in this vein, seeking out both the nondescript, yet iconic, in the seemingly banal and deserted strips of these uniquely American vistas and landscapes.