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Marler’s Joshua Tree Studio is included in the Highway 62 Art Tours again this year.

Joshua Tree, Calif. – Renowned Santa Monica-based Contemporary Photographic Artist Louise Marler, aka L.A. Marler, is relocating to take permanent residency at her Joshua Tree home and studio this month and will be exhibiting her distinguished Pop Photo-Based Art at  Modernism Week from October 13-16, 2022. In addition, she will also be a featured artist for the Highway 62 Art Tours in Joshua Tree for the third weekend only, October 22-23, 2022.

camEra art by L.A. Marler

Best known for Contemporary Vintage Imaging, Marler’s mixing of analog and digital techniques yield a consistent dialog between retro media tools and the ever-changing digital landscape. While, midcentury art is plentiful with paintings, sculpture, glass, and other genres. Marler creates authentic photography with flair, using mechanical media tools from the midcentury era. Her fascinating artwork is focused on vintage typewriters, cameras, retro radios, and, more recently, televisions. The resulting work transforms antiquated sentiments into unique, timely statements by shooting with a digital camera and then layering and manipulating the images. Some of her work incorporates words into the pictures as graphic elements to convey a message, inviting interactions, conversations, and ideas.

“Louise tells important stories with an incredible sense of humor through her artwork,” states

Erica Di Bona, Art Collector, Advocate, and Author of a book about her art of typing thank you letters became her super-power, "The Power of Thank You."

A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Marler's father inherited and expanded a typewriter business. As a result, her intimate knowledge and appreciation of typewriters are combined with natural and passionate self-taught creative talents. 

Typewriter art by L.A. Marler

Her image collections integrate history, education, and entertainment. Notably, Tom Hanks added Marler’s artwork to his collection and gifted her one of his signed typewriters. Which will be in her booth #409 at Modernism Week, and Goldenvoice selected her to exhibit at Desert Trip, a lifetime concert featuring the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Roger Waters, and The Who. Her work has also been included in the Smithsonian Museum of American History.

Marler’s TypOwriter series is elegantly written using round caps from vintage typewriters and in thoughtful, type-sensitive headlines and proper punctuation. Her camERA artwork features pop art pictures of vintage cameras. The keywords series is expansive about her love of typewriters and their nostalgic keys, haiku poetry, and license plate message. Once printed, she creates archival, limited editions, and mixed media, which are painted uniquely.  

KeyWord art by L.A.Marler

Her colorful and fun artwork brings a touch of pizzazz to Modernism Week and will be exhibited in Booth #409. Additionally, she provides the Modernism Type-In, a typing table where visitors have the sentimental opportunity to type. So gather, unplug and reconnect while telling their own typewriter story, release their inner poet, create a letter or a list, or other typing fun.

“I am delighted to return to Mini Modernism and self-represent,” says Marler. “It seems to be the perfect audience for my midcentury media artwork that I have poured my heart and soul into over the past decade.”

Marler’s range of mechanical and digital techniques combined in a unique contemporary style has landed her exhibits in national and international museums. In addition, galleries, private collections, films, and TV Shows, such as Two and a Half Men, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Mentalist, Criminal Minds, Dear White People, Arrested Development, and The Typewriter in the 21st Century, in which she appears.

Marler’s studio, adjacent to The Joshua Tree TYPE Inn, will be included in the Highway 62 Art Tours, a self-guided tour. A catalog and map of the studios included can be picked up at the Joshua Tree Art Gallery(JTAG) at 61607 Highway 62, Ste. B, in the Joshua Tree Village. Marler’s Type Inn and the private studio are close to JTAG, located at 5957 Sunset Road. Her studio is north of Hwy 62, straight up Sunset, and the last house on the right before Hilltop. She will be open to visitors on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., October 22- 23, 2022.

Custom-made pillows for Palm Springs Art Museum stores by L.A. Marler

For additional information, visit www.LAMarler.com. Follow L.A. Marler on Facebook at L.A. Marler and on Instagram at LAMarler.