MARSHA COTTRELL (b. 1964) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Cottrell was educated at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MFA) and Tyler School of Art (BFA). Cottrell is a recipient of the 2013 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Biennial Award; the 2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Fellowship Grant in Drawing; the 2004 Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, Educational Grant; the 2003 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Grant in Drawing; the 2001 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship; the 1999 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Grant in Digital Arts; and the 1999 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Space Program. Cottrell has had solo exhibitions at Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco (2016); Eleven Rivington (2015), New York, NY; g-module, Paris, France (2003); Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY (2003); Gaga, New York, NY (2000), among others. Group exhibitions include Gray Matters, organized by Michael Goodson, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Worlding: Lucas Blalock, Marsha Cottrell, Ben Hagari, Ajay Kurian, and Hayal Pozanti, organized by Mia Curran, University of Western Michigan, 2017; One Third White, Kunst im Tunnel (KIT), Dusseldorf, Germany, 2013; and Field Conditions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 2012. Selected public collections include The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Brian met up with Marsha at her solo show to talk about quiet and light and more.