Louise Anne Marler
lamarler@mac.com
Louise Anne Marler is a photographer, graphic artist, and curator. Providing commercial graphics and printing for 20 years, she is a hands-on specialist. Marler is meticulous about papers, inks, and color in all her prints made of her work or others’.
Medium and large formats, with master digital printmaking skills, select archival papers, and Epson archival and dye inks, her prints are vibrantly colorful with super fine detail. Digital printing is the cleanest of print processes.
She graduated from Southeast Missouri State University. Mostly self-taught, various art classes at SMC, workshops at Scripps College, self-help graphics, and freestyle photography add to the progression of her work.
“My photo-based mixed media art has iconic visual vocabulary. Authentic style has led to exhibits, art collections, and events that integrate history, education, and entertainment. Raised in a family that collected, sold, and repaired typewriters, these and other vintage machines are part of my personal history, which naturally became the subject matter of my visual expression. I’m inspired by Americana, pop art, analog, and digital technology.”
I developed my unique photo art in a Santa Monica Airport hanger turned studio after owning and operating a graphic design and print shop there. I currently live and work in Joshua Tree, where I created The Type Inn, a typewriter and art gallery writer retreat. I spend my summers in my hometown, St. Louis, where I created The TypOsphere typewriter museum and art gallery, as well as The St. Gen Type Inn. www.TheTypeInns.com
Recent Exhibitions:
- 2023 Galerie De’Arts, LA Art Show, solo exhibit, Los Angeles, CA
- 2022 Modernism Palm Springs, solo exhibit, Palm Springs, CA
- 2021 Crisp Museum, “Digital Americana,” solo exhibit SEMO
- 2019 Art Expo, New York City, NY
- 2018 ArtBlend Gallery, Art Week in Miami, FL
- 2018 Robert Miller Gallery, “Intersectional Feminists,” New York, NY
- 2017 DNJ Gallery, “Media Icons” solo exhibit, Santa Monica, CA
- 2016 Mike Kelley Gallery, “F451” curated group exhibit, Venice, CA
Career Highlights (Selected)
- Tom Hanks selected my artwork and gifted me three of his autographed typewriters.
- Selected by the LA Cultural Affairs Department for The Big Read for an NEA grant.
- Selected by Golden Voice to exhibit at The Desert Trip, a concert of a lifetime.
- Inclusion in the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
- NBCLX feature interview, “Why we are nostalgic?”
- Dana Bash, anchor on CNN adds art to her collection.
My work is featured in the documentary film “The Typewriter in the 21st Century” and TV shows including “Two and a Half Men,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “The Mentalist,” “Criminal Minds,” “Jane the Virgin,” “Dear White People,” “Lucifer,” “Arrested Development,” “Love Victor, and “A Black Lady Sketch.”
