Work

Tony Marsh / Installation View

Tony Marsh / Installation View

Tony Marsh / Seismos series / 2019 / multiple fired clay and glaze / 17 x 13 x 12 inches

Tony Marsh / Crucible series Blue / 2019 / multiple fired clay and glaze / 16 x 10 x 9 inches

Tony Marsh / Installation View

Tony Marsh / Installation View

Tony Marsh / Cauldron series Neapolitan / 2018 / multiple fired clay and glaze / 11.5 x 9 x 10 inches

Tony Marsh / Crucible series Black / 2018 / multiple fired clay and glaze / 12 x 11 x 9.5 inches

Tony Marsh / Crucible series Jadeite / 2018 / multiple fired clay and glaze / 15 x 14 x 15 inches

Videos

2019 NCECA Closing Lecture, Tony Marsh

FROM WHERE I SIT. REPORTING IN FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 30 YEARS & COUNTING

Beliefs, observations, thoughts & prayers from over 30 years as an educator and more as a maker. Drawing from experiences of Mashiko, Japan to Long Beach State and the Center for Contemporary Ceramics, Tony Marsh shares some of what he thinks about ceramic art and how it is positioned at the moment in the world of contemporary fine art.

Presentation given at the annual conference for the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts in 2019 held in Minneapolis, MN.

Tony MARSH : Taiwan Ceramics Biennale 2008

CSULB ceramics professor Tony Marsh talked about his passion for his craft.

Tony Marsh talking about the Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale

2013, the 7th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province in the Republic of Korea. It is organized by the Korea Ceramic Foundation first founded in 2001, this year it reaches its 13th year. The Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale is one of the world’s most distinguished ceramic event.

BIO

Tony Marsh has contributed to contemporary ceramics as an artist, educator and innovator for over 30 years. His vessels are non-utilitarian, the forms elementary and symmetrical. On view in this exhibition are sculptures from his current series, Crucibles & Cauldrons- prototypical shapes providing the architecture for his unique experimental surface amalgamation.

Through alchemy, intuitive wisdom, science and thermal adversity, Tony Marsh opens the window for random, unexpected surface topographies. These works encapsulate all the knowledge he’s amassed over the years with “various material and mineral concoctions”, layered, fired, then repeating the process. “In this work there are real and imagined allusions to physical sciences, earth formation, geographic phenomenon, force, pyroclastic work, time and landscape.” Marsh leaves all technical notes and trails blank, a deliberate amnesia, as he allows the accident of formula, material, firing and stress to unfold each vibrant, eruptive sculpture.

Tony Marsh was recently named a United States Artists Fellow in 2018, an honor awarded to outstanding contributors in American Arts and Letters. Marsh is Professor at California State University, Long Beach, chairing the Ceramics Department for 25 years (1995 – 2015). Marsh is the founding Director of the Center for Contemporary Ceramics (2017), a national and international residency program on the campus of CSULB. He has been a Visiting Artist and Lecturer at over 60 institutions and foundations including the Chicago Art Institute, Kansas City Art Institute, UCLA, Parsons School of Design, Alfred University and Seoul National University. His ceramic sculpture is included in over thirty permanent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Art and Design, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Oakland Museum of Art; Gardiner Museum of Art, Toronto; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; San Jose Museum of Art; ASU Art Museum Tempe and the Foshan Museum of Contemporary Art, Foshan, China.

Tony Marsh CV