• Artists Book Showcase

    Artists Book Showcase
    featuring Quite Contrary Press and Treadwell Press
    Chung 24 Gallery
    698 Pennsylvania Ave
    SF, CA

    July 18-20, 2024, 1:30-6
    event Saturday, July 20, 4-6




  • HBC52

    Hand Bookbinders of California Annual Members' Exhibition
    through August 18, 2024
    San Francisco Public Library
    Skylight Gallery, 6th Floor
    100 Larkin Street, SF CA

  • BAC Annual Juried Exhibition

    BAC Annual Juried Exhibition

    Letter from the Network
    Berkeley Art Center
    Saturday May 25, opening 2-5 - Saturday July 6th
    jurors: PJ Gubatina Policarpio and Juan Omar Rodriguez

  • Kala 50

    Kala 50

    KALA 50 Exhibition and Auction
    Come to the Preview Party! March 21, 6-9
    2990 San Pablo
    Berkeley, CA

  • In Cahoots Auction

    In Cahoots Auction

    In Cahoots Residency Fundraising Auction 2024
    Online Auction and details
    In person event March 16 1:00-4:00
    Petaluma, CA
    $25

  • CODEX IX

    CODEX IX

    CODEX IX International Book Arts Fair

    Quite Contrary Press Table W26
    Tony Bellaver & Mary V. Marsh

    Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center
    10 10th Street, Oakland near Lake Merritt BART
    Feb 4-7, 2024
    Sun Feb 4, 12:30-5:30
    Mon Feb 5, 1:00-6:00
    Tue Feb 6, 1:00-6:00
    Wed Feb 7, 10:00-3:00
    $15

  • MonoVariations

    MonoVariations

    MonoVariations

    January 13 - Feb 17, 2024
    Opening Saturday January 13, 7-9

    Arc Gallery
    1246 Folsom Street
    San Francisco, CA 94103

    A California Society of Printmakers exhibition juried by Michelle Edelman of TINT Gallery

  • Brand 51

    Brand 51

    Brand 51: Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper
    I'm pleased to have my book Here/Hear included in this show of works on paper juried by Ara Oshagan.
    Opening event Saturday July 8, 2023

    The Brand Art Library & Art Center
    1601 West Mountain Street
    Glendale, CA 91201

  • California Printmakers

    California Printmakers

    California Printmakers : Tradition and Innovation
    I'm excited to have two of my Here/Hear prints included in this show juried by master printmakers Yuzo Nakano and Kazuko Watanabe, both of Kala Art Institute in Berkeley. The exhibition highlights the best in recent California printmaking by 40 artists and features a wide range of printmaking techniques.
    In Addition, Freedom or Slavery: The Paul Robeson Portfolio, will be featured in the upstairs galleries. Comprised of 14 screenprints, the collection was published in 1998 by Jos Sances and Alliance Graphics as a project to honor the athlete, singer, actor, and civil-rights activist Paul Robeson on the centennial of his birth.
    July 22-August 27, 2023

    Opening Saturday July 22, 4-6
    Arts Benicia
    1 Commandants Lane
    Benicia, CA 94510

  • New Impressions

    New Impressions

    New Impressions
    Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum
    April 21-July 29, 2023
    I am thrilled to have won the Director's Cut Award! This is a wonderful selection of innovative letterpress prints from around the world. View the works online, order the catalog.
    Two Rivers, WI

  • Artists in Conversation

    Artists in Conversation

    Artists in Conversation
    Tony Bellaver & Mary V. Marsh

    Tony and I gave a presentation on our artist's books at Chung 24 Gallery in Noe Valley. Tony's book "In the Absence" is included in the current show, Touchstone, curated by Irene Imfeld, featuring landscape photography, and gallery director Diane Chung invited us to be Artists in Conversation.
    We had a great time talking about ways that we collaborate in making our art, and some of the photographic processes that we use.
    Big thanks to Jeff Heyman for this great photo!
    May 6, 2023
    Chung 24 Gallery
    4071 24th Street
    San Francisco 94114

  • Positively Charged

    Positively Charged

    Positively Charged : Copier Art in the Bay Area Since the 1960s
    curated by Maymanah Farhat and Jennie Hinchcliff
    This exhibition at two venues explores the history of some of the creative hubs and artists through the lens of the copier art they produced. I look forward to this look back at what was going on when I first moved to San Francisco and discovered Postcard Palace, a nexus of copier art and artists.

    San Francisco Public Library
    6th floor Skylight Gallery
    100 Larkin Street
    San Francisco, CA 94102

    San Francisco Center for the Book
    375 Rhode Island Street
    San Francisco, CA 94103

  • Books Against the Wall

    Books Against the Wall

    Books Against The Wall
    Peninsula Museum of Art
    Work by Zach Clark, Sarah Klein, Mary V. Marsh, Andy Rottner and Lorna Stevens.

    Five Bay Area artists have translated their book works to mixed media objects and multimedia projects. The results challenge the viewer to consider the book as print, sculpture, animation, or electronic game. Some pieces share the process used in creating it, while others expand a concept by presenting it in a new format, broadening and enhancing our notions of what a book can be and do.

    The Daily Journal

    Peninsula Museum of Art
    Space 204, Tanforan Shopping Center
    1188 El Camino Real
    San Bruno, CA 94066

  • Ideal Engagements

    Ideal Engagements

    Ideal Engagements: A Risograph Portfolio
    Zach Clark at Chute Studio produced Risograph prints with 15 artists from the California Society of Printmakers during the summer and fall of 2021. I was excited to work with Zach to make "are you going somewhere". Portfolios are available for acquisition.

    Ideal Engagements

  • The Art of the Book

    The Art of the Book

    The Art of the Book
    This annual show will include Here/Hear: Meta Data Mining, a new artist's book by Mary V. Marsh, and Resource Extraction and What's Left Behind, a portfolio of Platinum/Palladium prints, and artist's book Anthropocene, by Tony Bellaver.
    April 23-May 29

    Seager Gray Gallery
    108 Throckmorton Avenue
    Mill Valley, CA

  • Small Plates 2022

    Small Plates 2022

    I am so pleased to have
    HAND BOOK : A Post-Pandemic Manual
    available with all of the Small Plates books, in the online
    store and at
    San Francisco Center for the Book
    375 Rhode Island, San Francisco

  • The Sketchbook Project

    The Sketchbook Project

    I'm pleased to have two books in the Sketchbook Project at the Brooklyn Art Library. Even though it closed, The Digital Library contains 25,019 complete scanned contributions to The Sketchbook Project.

    Manual: A HAND BOOK: No Touching

    This is Not What it Seems: This is What I See

  • Between Here & Now

    Between Here & Now

    Between Here & Now
    An installation about reading with rubbings from the surrounding streets as evidence of here, and linoleum cuts on book pages and hands holding books to suggest journeys in the mind experienced now. Viewable at any time, it is on Milvia, a Bicycle Boulevard.
    March 20-October 17, 2021

    Read Here Now event August 26, 5-7
    Collecting stories about a book that you read, and when you remember it you think about where you were when you read it. Meet at the window to write your memory on a letterpress printed postcard for you to keep. Send a photo of the card, or just the story to mary@mvmarsh.com

    Milvia/Addison Windows, Kala Art Institute
    2100 Addison
    Berkeley, CA

  • Read Here Now

    Read Here Now

    Read Here Now
    Do you have a memory of reading a book, a story that you always associate with where you were, and what you were doing while reading it? While making my window installation Between Here & Now, I was thinking about this idea of experiencing both my physical location and the world in my mind at the same time.
    contribute a memory about reading
    Print out and write down a memory you have of reading a book that always reminds you of where you were when you were reading it.
    You can also color in the blank book to evoke the story or the place you remember. Please take a photo of each and email it to mary@mvmarsh.com. I will be sharing the stories on my instagram and compiling them into an artist's book.


  • UPLIFT/HEAVY LIFT

    UPLIFT/HEAVY LIFT

    I am so pleased to have one of my new Here/Hear prints included in the 2021 Berkeley Art Center juried show.

    UPLIFT/HEAVY LIFT
    curated by Thea Quiray Tagle
    June 12- July 18
    Saturday June 12 extended hours 10am-9pm

    Berkeley Art Center
    1275 Walnut Street,Berkeley, CA 94709
    Wed-Sun 11am-5pm

  • Residency Projects: New Work by 2018-2019 Kala Fellows

    Residency Projects: New Work by 2018-2019 Kala Fellows

    Residency Projects: New Work by 2018-2019 Kala Fellows

    I am so excited to share my new projects I've been working on at Kala!
    Join me at the opening or let me know when I can meet you there.

    Opening reception Thursday July 25, 6:00-8:30
    through September 21, 2019
    Kala Art Institute
    2990 San Pablo
    Berkeley

    Kala Art Institute

  • Between here & there : each day a gift

    Between here & there : each day a gift

    Between here & there : each day a gift

    City College Art Gallery
    City College of San Francisco
    Visual Arts Building v119

    City College Art Gallery

    reception Thursday, March 7, 5:00-7:00
    gallery hours Mon 10-1, 4-4
    Tues & Thurs 3-6
    Wed 12:30-5
    Fri 10-1

    for a special treat, visit the amazing Diego Rivera mural, map and schedule here:
    https://riveramural.org/visit