Andrew Marsh makes beautiful and terrifying art exploring sacrifice and reward. Combining cast iron, welded steel, and chainsaw carved wood, Marsh’s explosive ritual performances, large-scale sculptures, and environmental installations are dark effigies to the torment of healing. He blends the sensuality of nature and calculus of industry with solemn reflections on tragedy and mortality.

 

Marsh's works echo fundamental dualities, such as the living balance between passion for life and fixations on death, or the fragility of enduring a broken body while maintaining strength of soul. Many pieces serve as memento mori, or other memorials holding significant symbols, but all contrast horror with solace. Incendiary performances, where he pours molten iron into wood molds, yield highly abstract cast iron artifacts that are points of origin for his abstract metal sculptures. These attest to chaotic primordial origins, give form to contentious inflammation and injuries, yet persist within expressive compositions once combined with steel and concrete fragments.

 

Remaining true to DIY punk culture and activism, Marsh builds all his own work, utilizing reclaimed, recycled, and repurposed materials and machines in a studio he created within a former factory in Louisville, Kentucky. His sustainable approach to materials and methods relies on post-consumer utility as a viable alternative to energy- and resource-intensive consumption of new materials. By using iconoclastic imagery, his work is critical of power structures and institutions exploiting the natural world and human capital for profit. These works intertwine emotional decay and industrial brutality with natural systems in revolt as environmental protest.

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Marsh's 35 year practice spans bespoke creations, public works, and monumental attractions, having served as a creator of City Museum in St. Louis MO and Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum in Solsberry IN. Andrew is the founding chair of the board of directors for Josephine Sculpture Park in Frankfort KY, program officer of the Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy at University of Louisville, and sole proprietor of Lucky 7 Arts, LLC.