Marsha Gray Carrington

Marsha’s images are based on fantastical imaginings, symbolism, emotions, sexuality and identity. Often utilizing fabric and sometimes masks which partially or completely cover the subject, her work represents a metaphorical journey in self realization and discovery based on life experiences and relationships. She works in many mediums and sees each as merely a creative tool. As with her photography, the camera is a paint brush representing her mind’s eye. In her unique images she calls “photo fusions” Marsha creates the initial photographs, then goes further by manipulating them digitally in an almost puzzle like fashion, creating something completely new. These particular images have been likened to a kaleidoscope…the more one looks at the images the more one discovers and sees. While the photo fusions include symmetrical elements, Marsha most often takes the final image to an asymmetrical place intentionally, with some details being quite subtle. She recognizes that we as humans have more than one side, and our psyche’s can be quite complex. These elements are vital in her art…. covering and uncovering, revealing one part and then another, while understanding that life is a continuum, ever changing and evolving.

Marsha has b...

BFA 1977 - James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Concentration in Painting, Graphics and Photography

MFA 1981 - California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Concentration in Fine Art Photography

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Voices of Erie, Carrington Arts, Sandusky, Ohio
1981 Marsha Gray Carrington, Graduate Show, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1980 Under Wraps, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
The May Show, Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio
Storm, Carrington Arts, Sandusky, Ohio
Mask, Carrington Arts, Sandusky, Ohio
The Persistence of Surrealism, Sandusky Cultural Center, Sandusky, Ohio

2018
Boy With the Boot, Brick Gallery, Sandusky, Ohio
Playing With Dolls, Carrington Arts, Sandusky, Ohio
Cleveland Artifact Machine, Sandusky Cultural Center, Sandusky, Ohio
In The Shadows, Carrington Arts, Sandusky, Ohio
Driven To Abstraction, Carrington Arts, Sandusky, Ohio

2017
Under Wraps, Sandusky Cultural Center, Sandusky, Ohio
Meditation-Conversation, Pennington Custom Art, Columbus, Ohio
Mirror Mirror, Carrington Arts, Sandusky, Ohio
Photo Now 2017, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Cuyahoga Community College Eastern Campus, Gallery East, Highland Hills, Ohio
Women’s Work, Carrington Arts, Sandusky, Ohio

2016
Cleveland Artifact Machine, Sandusky Cultural Center, Sandusky, Ohio
Blue, Carrington Arts, Sandusky, Ohio
Familiar Strangers, Car...