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Megan Whitmarsh

Megan Whitmarsh was born in 1972. She lives and works in Los Angeles. She holds a Master of Fine Arts (University of New Orleans) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting (Kansas City Art Institute). She is known primarily for her idiosyncratic and detailed hand embroidery; a medium she has been working in since the mid 90’s. She works in a variety of low-tech media including self published comic books, stop action animation film, soft sculpture, painting and drawing. Her work refers to the visual noise of her youth in the 70’s and 80’s. She has shown internationally including solos in New York, Los Angeles, Reykjavik, Toronto, Brussels, Malmo & Barcelona as well as upcoming solos in San Francisco and Seoul.

Whitmarsh is inspired by a desire to be optimistic about the future of humanity. She combines the everyday parts of modern life with the iconography of the supernatural and fantastic and thus transforms the mundane into something magical feeling. As a child of the 1970s her sense of futurism is informed more by Star Wars than Tomorrow Land and her work references the visual noise of her youth. "Perhaps the healthiest kind of futurism is one that admits entropy and flux. Perfection is suspicious; worn and dusty can mean well-loved, too. I consider art a practice of transformation. We cannot expect to make new energy; instead we must reinvent, recycle, and transform what exists already. Making art is my attempt to synthesize my optimistic vision of the future with my pragmatic appraisal of the world I inhabit."

Megan Whitmarsh CV



Flying Vision Crystal
2009, 24” x 24”
embroidery thread on pieced fabric



Dr. Pepper & Crystal
2009, 6” x 6”
embroidery thread on polished cotton



Broken Neon
2009, 10” x 10”
embroidery thread on polished cotton



Sorcerer Yeti
2010, 12”x12”
embroidery thread and spraypaint on cotton