Emily Marchand | Ochi Gallery

Emily Marchand envelops ceramics, cooking, and community organizing in her art practice.Inspired by the native and manufactured landscapes of Los Angeles, she makes colorful formsembedded with vegetables, fruits, eggs, flora, and fauna. Her sculptures, wall works, and vessels consider tenderness and care as strategies to access a range of emotions with a timely focus on both joy and grief. What began as an investigation and exploration into Big Agriculture, seed banks, and food scarcity has inspired a closer look into her own relationship to her community through food, cooking, gardening, and feeding friends and unhoused neighbors. Adjacent to her art practice, she cooks for a living as a food stylist and as a volunteer for local non-profit organizations feeding the unhoused community including Brown Bag Lady, Downtown Women’s Center, and MEND Poverty. Emily Marchand (b. 1982, Sacramento, CA) earned an MFA from California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA and a BA from University of California in Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been exhibited at venues including The Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum in Long Beach, CA; The Pit, Hashimoto Contemporary, Nowspace, and La Loma Projects in Los Angeles, CA; and Setareh Gallery in Düsseldorf, Germany. In 2023, Marchand was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the California Arts Council and in 2019 she participated in CURRENT:LA FOOD, a public art triennial based in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured and reviewed in publications including Architectural Digest, New York Times, Hyperallergic, LA Art Spot, PBS SoCal’s Artbound, and Time-Out. Marchand lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.