Marsha Cottrell
Marsha Cottrell
Untitled (Light blue-green with yellow border), 2025
Archival pigment-based ink on digital ground on paper, unique
Framed Dimensions:
22 3/8 x 17 3/8 x 1 3/8 inches
56.8 x 44.1 x 3.5 cm
Paper Dimensions:
20 x 15 inches
50.8 x 38.1 cm
Marsha Cottrell
Untitled (Coral red with blue and green lines), 2025
Archival pigment-based ink on digital ground on paper, unique
Framed Dimensions:
22 3/8 x 17 3/8 x 1 3/8 inches
56.8 x 44.1 x 3.5 cm
Paper Dimensions:
20 x 15 inches
50.8 x 38.1 cm
Marsha Cottrell
Untitled (Blue square with red and yellow border), 2025
Archival pigment-based ink on digital ground on paper, unique
Framed Dimensions:
22 3/8 x 17 3/8 x 1 3/8 inches
56.8 x 44.1 x 3.5 cm
Paper Dimensions:
20 x 15 inches
50.8 x 38.1 cm
Marsha Cottrell
Untitled (Pink with triangles), 2025
Archival pigment-based ink on digital ground on paper, unique
Framed Dimensions:
22 3/8 x 17 3/8 x 1 3/8 inches
56.8 x 44.1 x 3.5 cm
Paper Dimensions:
20 x 15 inches
50.8 x 38.1 cm
Marsha Cottrell
Untitled (Small bright blue with red-brown border), 2024
Archival pigment-based ink on digital ground on paper, unique
Framed Dimensions:
17 3/8 x 22 3/8 x 1 3/8 inches
44.1 x 56.8 x 3.5 cm
Paper Dimensions:
15 x 20 inches
38.1 x 50.8 cm
Marsha Cottrell
Untitled (Mixed red-brown with cyan border), 2024
Archival pigment-based ink on digital ground on paper, unique
Framed Dimensions:
22 3/8 x 17 3/8 x 1 3/8 inches
56.8 x 44.1 x 3.5 cm
Paper Dimensions:
20 x 15 inches
50.8 x 38.1 cm
Marsha Cottrell
Untitled (Blue-gray with horizontal lines), 2025
Archival pigment-based ink on digital ground on paper, unique
Framed Dimensions:
22 3/8 x 17 3/8 x 1 3/8 inches
56.8 x 44.1 x 3.5 cm
Paper Dimensions:
20 x 15 inches
50.8 x 38.1 cm
Marsha Cottrell
Untitled (Bright yellow-green with grid), 2025
Archival pigment-based ink on digital ground on paper, unique
Framed Dimensions:
22 3/8 x 17 3/8 x 1 3/8 inches
56.8 x 44.1 x 3.5 cm
Paper Dimensions:
20 x 15 inches
50.8 x 38.1 cm
Marsha Cottrell
Untitled (Light blue-gray with dots), 2024
Archival pigment-based ink on digital ground on paper, unique
Framed Dimensions:
22 3/8 x 17 3/8 x 1 3/8 inches
56.8 x 44.1 x 3.5 cm
Paper Dimensions:
20 x 15 inches
50.8 x 38.1 cm
Marsha Cottrell
Untitled (Float), 2025
Laser toner on collaged paper, unique
Framed Dimensions:
58 5/8 x 87 3/8 x 2 1/2 inches
148.9 x 221.8 x 6.2 cm
Paper Dimensions:
54 7/8 x 83 5/8 inches
139.4 x 212.2 cm
Marsha Cottrell
Untitled (Wavy), 2021
Laser toner on paper, unique
Framed Dimensions:
14 3/8 x 16 7/8 x 1 3/8 inches
36.5 x 42.9 x 3.5 cm
Paper Dimensions:
8 1/2 x 11 inches
21.6 x 27.9 cm
Marsha Cottrell
Untitled (Concentric), 2022
Laser toner on paper, unique
Framed Dimensions:
16 7/8 x 14 3/8 x 1 3/8 inches
42.9 x 36.5 x 3.5 cm
Paper Dimensions:
11 x 8 1/2 inches
27.9 x 21.6 cm
Marsha Cottrell
Untitled (Dark with vertical lines), 2025
Archival pigment-based ink on digital ground on paper, unique
Framed Dimensions:
17 3/8 x 22 3/8 x 1 3/8 inches
44.1 x 56.8 x 3.5 cm
Paper Dimensions:
15 x 20 inches
38.1 x 50.8 cm
Marsha Cottrell
Untitled (Pink), 2025
Archival pigment-based ink on digital ground on paper, unique
Framed Dimensions:
36 1/8 x 52 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches
91.8 x 133.2 x 4.4 cm
Paper Dimensions:
32 3/8 x 48 5/8 inches
82.1 x 123.5 cm
Marsha Cottrell
Untitled (Yellow), 2019
Archival pigment-based ink on digital ground on paper, unique
Framed Dimensions:
22 5/8 x 33 5/8 x 1 3/8 inches
57.3 x 85.2 x 3.5 cm
Paper Dimensions:
20 1/8 x 31 1/8 inches
51 x 78.9 cm
Marsha Cottrell
Untitled (Dark red-violet with red and yellow border), 2022
Archival pigment-based ink on digital ground on paper, unique
Framed Dimensions:
36 1/8 x 52 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches
91.8 x 133.3 x 4.4 cm
Paper Dimensions:
32 3/8 x 48 5/8 inches
82.1 x 123.5 cm
Marsha Cottrell
Untitled (Horizontal blue with yellow-orange border), 2025
Archival pigment-based ink on digital ground on paper, unique
Framed Dimensions:
36 1/8 x 52 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches
91.8 x 133.2 x 4.4 cm
Paper Dimensions:
32 3/8 x 48 5/8 inches
82.1 x 123.5 cm
Marsha Cottrell
Untitled (Green with inset border), 2023
Archival pigment on digital ground on paper, unique
Framed Dimensions:
22 3/8 x 17 3/8 x 1 3/8 inches
56.8 x 44.1 x 3.5 cm
Paper Dimensions:
20 x 15 inches
50.8 x 38.1 cm
Detail view of: Marsha Cottrell, Untitled (Wavy), 2021, laser toner on paper, unique, paper dimensions: 8 1/2 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
PRESS RELEASE
Anthony Meier is pleased to present a solo showcase of new work by Marsha Cottrell on view from 12 September to 24 October 2025. This exhibition—Cottrell’s second with the gallery—marks a significant moment in a decades-long practice that has redefined the expressive potential of digital image-making. Featuring expansive and intimately-scaled pieces in color, a pair of letter-size works in laser toner, and a monumental black and white collage assembled from smaller sheets of paper, the exhibition traces the continued evolution of Cottrell’s singular visual language.
Since the mid-1990s, Cottrell has embraced the anonymity of computers and laser printers as both collaborators and constraints, forging an approach that is at once deliberate and intuitive. Compositions are built incrementally: handmade paper is passed through a printer in successive iterations, accruing layers of line, structure, and tonal variation in rich black carbon-based toner until the surface attains a measured weight and visual complexity. Though made by mechanical means, the resulting works retain the sensibility of drawing and painting—simultaneously networked and handmade, ephemeral and exacting, each the product of sustained inquiry, repeated gesture, and the accumulation of time.
For this exhibition, Cottrell expands the range of her practice with a new suite of work on paper, rendered in archival pigment-based ink. Through an additive process, ink gathers onto planes of tactile depth bordered by silk-like Mitsumata paper containing visible remnants of organic matter. Within one intimately-scaled piece, Untitled (Dark with vertical lines), a dense network of fine lines gleams at the edge of perception. In another, Untitled (Light blue-gray with dots), a constellation of alternating marks gently pulsates across a still blue-grey field. Meanwhile, Untitled (Horizontal blue with yellow-orange border) presents a rectangular expanse of vivid cerulean that is both object and aperture, animated by subtle shifts in spatial resonance. Though each image varies in palette and material nuance, all serve as a record of attention—a measured exchange between presence and absence, artist and machine.
A monumental black-and-white collage extends this inquiry into another register, where spatial logic and optical rhythm come into sharper focus. In Untitled (Float), composed of multiple sheets of paper, the atmospheric density of Cottrell’s grayscale compositions converges with the formal clarity of her color work. Repeating circular motifs—constructed not through hue, but tonal restraint—are anchored in place by a grid of 128 sheets of Akatosashi paper, hand-assembled into quilt-like formation. More than a static image, Untitled (Float) is a site of encounter, a plane where the elemental forces of space, time, perception, and materiality are not merely represented but felt.
Throughout Cottrell’s practice, process remains visible. Smudges, spatters, creases, and other errant marks are preserved rather than corrected. These traces are not signs of imperfection but evidence of a method that embraces chance and contradiction. Eschewing finality to reveal a process of discovery, the works remain fluid, centering both the visibility of their making and the open-ended interpretation they invite.