Cat Soergel Marshall is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at Louisiana State University. After studying art history and studio arts at Ithaca College, she earned a MLA from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2003.

Her work explores the landscape experience and representation. Funded by the Louisiana State University Research grant, her art has been exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions. She has been invited to speak about her work at the 2008 International Federation of Landscape Architects world congress, 2008 International Committee for Museums and Collections of Fine Arts international meeting, Holy Cross University, and the University of Illinois Champagne. Most recently, her design studio teaching has been recognized with the Outstanding Teaching Award 2008 and the Directors Award 2007 from Louisiana State University. She has been an invited studio design critic at Clemson University, Chatham College, University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Colorado in Denver. Based in Baton Rouge, Marshall continues to explore the territory of landscape imaging.

Artist Statement: This is one piece in a series of large format digital-photomontage landscapes titled “dreamscapes, the landscape sublime,” created in 2007 of rural landscapes in Louisiana. Pulsating with dreamlike qualities, the piece is meant to evoke landscapes in our memory rather than reality. Is this a place I dreamt? Created from a collection of photographs, the work is digitally built to evoke, movement and velocity as well as, the observer’s collective experiences. In my work, I am moved by the temporal processes of landscape and the liberating experience of memory. I hope my work begins to articulate various processes, through its imagery, recalling the viewers past experiences.