Laramie Marshall was born in Denver, Colorado in 1991. She holds a BFA from Metropolitan University, and is an MFA candidate at Parsons School of Design in New York. She lives and works in New York. Her solo and collaborative work has been shown at galleries 199, Emmanuel, Redline, and Art Corp in Denver, CO, West/East End Gallery in San Diego, CA, Darah Collins Gallery in Portland, OR, and Viridian Cage in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She has shown in Ferme ta boîte as part of the Bienialle International d’estampe Contermporiane de Troi-Rivieres, in Québec, Canada in 2015. She is part of the Amsterdam-based collective Viridian Cage, and the Denver-based collective Gilles Falko, which both focus on the intersections between art, design, and sustainability.

Laramie Marshall explores contemporary modes of mass production that interfere with the symbiotic systems of existence on our planet. She works with a pigment-producing soil-bacterium that ferments and grows on fabric in reaction to botanical ingredients. Through her practice she is exploring how fermentation represents a flourishing ecosystem, where each fragment is essential to the whole. These reactions create micro-bacterial, vibrantly colored, dyed fabric paintings. She uses fabric as her substrate to represent an object associated with modes of commercial material production that are detrimental to the intricacies of our ecosystem.

The aesthetics in her work derive from microscopic investigations of bacterial growth and fermentation. The molecular actions in these investigations provide physical and metaphorical illustrations of symbiotic living systems. In her work, fermentation serves as an imperative framework for ways to acknowledge and care for all forms of existence. Fermentation serves as a vital and viable space to re-conceive the ways that earth-dwellers collaborate.