Fredrik Marsh, Columbus Ohio, USA
Fredrik Marsh lives and works in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He attended The Ohio State University, earning his BFA in Photography in 1980 and MFA in Printmaking in 1984. He currently teaches as a Lecturer at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Marsh has been included in over 200 competitive and invitational exhibitions since 1978. He has been awarded fellowships from Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts, Ohio Arts Council, Greater Columbus arts Council, Saxonian State Ministry for Science & Art, Dresden, and a 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
Dresden Reliquary: Past Into Present
While spending three months in Dresden, Germany on an artist’s grant in 2002, Fredrik Marsh was drawn to the remains of the East German Communist-controlled industrial-military complex and its rebuilding and reconstruction. His large-scale panoramic photographs demonstrate the juxtapositions and ironies still abundant in the post-communist world, showing the old and the new as well as the grandeur and the decay of these once-majestic buildings.
Joel Snyder, University of Chicago art historian observed: Modern art, it has been claimed, involves a transfiguration, a remolding and reformulation of the commonplace. Fredrik Marsh's photographs defy this handy theorem by addressing, at least nominally, a subject that is foreign, exotic and beyond our everyday experience. These pictures are moving, not beautiful, unsettling, not comfortable.
Dresden Reliquary: Past Into Present
While spending three months in Dresden, Germany on an artist’s grant in 2002, Fredrik Marsh was drawn to the remains of the East German Communist-controlled industrial-military complex and its rebuilding and reconstruction. His large-scale panoramic photographs demonstrate the juxtapositions and ironies still abundant in the post-communist world, showing the old and the new as well as the grandeur and the decay of these once-majestic buildings.
Joel Snyder, University of Chicago art historian observed: Modern art, it has been claimed, involves a transfiguration, a remolding and reformulation of the commonplace. Fredrik Marsh's photographs defy this handy theorem by addressing, at least nominally, a subject that is foreign, exotic and beyond our everyday experience. These pictures are moving, not beautiful, unsettling, not comfortable.
Collections
Cleveland Museum of Art
Guggenheim Foundation, New York
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester
Kupferstich-Kabinett Museum, Dresden
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Milwaukee Art Museum
Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, DK
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
MFA–Houston
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Stiftung Moritzburg Kunstmuseum–Halle
among others.
Books
Übergänge: Das Dresden Projekt. Fotografien von Fredrik Marsh.
Technische Sammlungen Dresden in cooperation with Sandstein Verlag: Dresden. September 2009. ISBN-13: 978-3941843011
