Marsh Scott is a multidisciplinary artist whose sculptural and site-specific works reflect a lifelong engagement with material, movement, and place. Working across metal, paper, wax, and painted surfaces, her practice merges precision with poetics-bridging abstraction and narrative to create works that resonate across public and private spaces.
Educated at Pennsylvania State University (BA, Art Education) and California State University, Long Beach (MA), Scott began her career as an educator before establishing her full-time studio practice in 1986. Her early experiments in handmade paper, fresco, and encaustic painting laid the foundation for a diverse portfolio that now spans stainless steel and aluminum sculpture, architectural interventions, and layered wall installations. Texture, layering, shadow, and light remain central to her visual language. Shadow has always played an important role in her work-introducing depth and transformation, shifting with the surrounding environment and lighting over time.
Her large-scale commissions are installed in civic, medical, and academic settings throughout the United States, including permanent works for Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Metrolink, and the U.S. Department of Defense. These site-specific works are widely recognized for their sensitivity to context-drawing on local history, natural environments, and cultural memory. From pedestrian underpasses and hospital lobbies to urban infrastructure and libraries, Scott's public artworks offer moments of visual clarity, rhythm, and narrative reflection.
Recent works-including the Strataforms series-return to sculptural intimacy, using hand-shaped white paper to evoke geological strata, erosion, and transformation. These pieces reflect the artist's deep connection to coastal landscapes and an ongoing inquiry into what is revealed and what remains buried over time.
Scott has exhibited widely and has been recognized for her leadership within the arts community. She currently lives and works in Dana Point, California, after two decades in Laguna Beach, and continues to pursue both public commissions and gallery-based presentation of new work.
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