Shalya Marsh

Shalya Marsh’s work expresses the intrinsic limitation that language places on communication, through the use of decipherable codes and symbols. Marsh’s hand built ceramic sculptures reference illuminated manuscripts, ancient cuneiforms, and primitive accounting systems known as tokens. These archaic systems of recording information are juxtaposed with modern codes and ciphers such as binary, substitution, and Morse. The viewer is invited to literally decode the piece’s nonsensical pangrams and whimsical definitions.

Lancaster artist and teacher, Shalya Marsh, exhibits her ceramic sculpture and installation in the Rothman Gallery. Marsh's work explores the history and development of signs and symbols and the multiple meaning in language using codes and ciphers. Please join the artist for a reception and gallery talk on First Friday, April 6, at 4:45 p.m.

Franklin and Marshall College | The Phillips Museum of Art | Rothman Gallery
Lancaster, PA | 17604-3003

Date: March 20th - April 22nd 2012
Artist Reception & Gallery Talk: April 6th 4:30 - 8 pm

I am honored to announce that I have been awarded the Lormina Salter Fellowship at the Baltimore Clayworks. The residency fellowship runs from September 1, 2011 to August 31, 2012.

Realizing the need to enrich the existing collective studio with creative, energetic and artistically diverse ceramic artists, Baltimore Clayworks offers a one-year residency fellowship as a memorial to one of its founders, Lormina Salter. Salter was a gifted teacher and respected artist whose initiative, energy and insistence on artistic excellence were instrumental in setting direction for the Clayworks.