Through material experimentation and collecting, Cubberley’s work considers the fragility of systems that can feel inevitable. She uses low tech technologies like paper mache, knitting, and stop motion, intertwined with 3D modeling and animation to make installations, videos, and sculptural scenarios. She collects iconic grocery packaging (bread tags, berry baskets and egg cartons), construction site debris, seed pods, and geological bits that all come to her through systems of production and distribution. She picks apart these item’s historical, material, and emotional relations in order to investigate how seemingly banal products of our material culture can be used to exfoliate the social “naturalness” they are granted.
Marilla Cubberley uses found and made objects to create immersive installations, animations and digital collections. Born and raised in rural Tennessee, she now resides in New York where she works as a Baker in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Her work has been exhibited at Temple Contemporary, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Wavelength Space, Atelier Art Gallery, Site:Brooklyn, Atlantic Gallery, Dodomu Gallery, Arta Starta, BWAC Gallery, The Defy Film Festival and The Coney Island Film Festival. In 2022 Cubberley was an artist in residence at I-park Foundation. She holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia.
