Mona Marshall, an artist currently living in Texas, has always had an interest in our relationship with architecture and the larger man made environment. Most of the work on this site is about this subject, including Skin Deep and the most recent series called Weather. She works in encaustic on a prepared surface and photography.

Marshall has an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She also studied at Tyler School of Art in Rome and the University of Michigan. She has exhibited work in San Francisco, Santa Monica, Viridian Gallery in New York, Blue Star in San Antonio, Harris Gallery in Houston, and in Austin, Women and Their Work Gallery and the Austin Museum of Art. In 2003 she won first prize in Celebrating Texas Art in Houston. Marshall has won four residencies at the MacDowell Colony and was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome recently. She is a Professor of Visual Art at College of the Mainland near Houston, and just became a Master Naturalist in Austin, Texas.

The Tower

skin deep drawings

Skin can be fragile and easily torn or cut. It is generated by what is underneath and can be destroyed by it as well.

headlight drawings #69

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