Louise Marler

Louise Anne Marler is an American artist who works across photography, graphic arts, experimental techniques, painting, and collage. Marler is known for work depicting analog and broadcast media including mid-century typewriters, cameras, radios, and televisions. In 2003, Marler began to use “LA Marler” as her artistic identity. Marler's work engages visual traditions of text art, pop art, and language. She differentiates her work from other pop artists in her deliberate use of original photography rather than stock, public domain, or commercial images. Marler's work is a dialogue between analog and digital art, situated in her experience as a Gen X commercial graphic arts and lithographic printer, and later fine artist reflecting on the transition from analog to digital media production and storytelling. Marler has also received attention for her “KeyWords” series, that engages with typewriter aesthetics, SEO and digital marketing language, and spiritually-distilled statements. Her work is featured in the films and TV shows including the documentary, The Typewriter in the 21st Century, the movies Friends with Benefits, Grand Daddy Day Care, Girls Code, and the TV shows, Two and a Half Men, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Mentalist, Criminal Minds, Scandal, Here and Now, Jane the Virgin, Dear White People, Lucifer, Arrested Development, and others.