Location: Oakland, CA
Medium: Sculpture
Website: marshallelliott.com
Marshall Elliott lives and works in Oakland, California. He received BA degrees in Film Studies and English Literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an MFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he was awarded the Anne Bremer Prize. He was an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts from 2016 to 2019, and was the deYoung Museum Artist Studio Program Artist-in-Residence in 2017. He held a Minnesota Street Project LPP+ Residency in 2016.
Elliott's sculptures are conceptually oriented works in which materials are allowed to drift rather than being directed toward predetermined outcomes — collecting the records of their own wandering, as the University of San Francisco's Thacher Gallery put it, while "letting loose of a conceptual route." He works with an economy of means typical of conceptual sculpture, bringing a background in film studies and literary thinking to bear on physical materials and their behavior. His exhibition record reflects a long engagement with Bay Area artist-run and independent spaces alongside institutional venues — from Headlands and the deYoung to Brittany gallery's nomadic exhibitions in Vallejo and Grass Valley, Minnesota Street Project, Root Division, Bass & Reiner, Jules Maeght Gallery, and City Limits.
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