Bio.

Marley Blauch is a 22-year-old visual artist from New Orleans, Louisiana currently living and working in La Jolla, California.

Marley works predominantly in oil paint on wood panel or canvas, her work examining the beauty within everyday life through the exploration of patterns, reflections, and familiar objects as she closely observes and focuses upon their seldom admired intricacies. She has always possessed a fascination with emerging mid-century technologies due to their beauty, complexities, rapid integration into daily life, and the shifts humans have experienced as immediate access to information and connection become increasingly fundamental elements of existence. Placing these objects within unfamiliar and disorienting contexts in her paintings is a meditation upon and emphasis of the profundities of this infiltration of technology, objects from various eras more broadly situating these ideas within time and space. The inherent qualities of oil paint, a medium demanding focus and patience, and its context within the art historical narrative are in opposition to the immediacy and accessibility of technology in the contemporary world. Marley has also recently become enamored with naturally manifesting patterns, particularly those composed of light, color, and reflection, as they are familiar yet perplexing and perpetually shifting, as is technology; therefore, her in-process paintings explore spaces in which these subjects intertwine.