Brice Marden
Brice Marden 1938-, American painter, b. Bronxville, N.Y.; grad Boston Univ. (B.F.A., 1961), Yale Univ. (M.A., 1963). Marden began exhibiting his work in the 1960s, becoming known for minimalist abstractions executed in oil paint and beeswax and composed of one or more rectangular panels of muted, monochromatic color, such as D'Après la Marquise de la Solana (1969, Guggenheim Mus.). In the mid-1980s he abruptly changed his style to a more spontaneous and gestural abstraction. Inspired by Asian calligraphy, he began to produce canvases covered with fluid, looping linear webs, sometimes drawn with paint using long sticks. Among these are the highly acclaimed paintings of the Cold Mountain series of the late 1980s and early 90s. He is also known for his drawings and prints. Marden, whose work is in the collections of many major museums, was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 2006.
Bibliography: See studies by K. Kertess (1992), D. Rimanelli (1995), D. Schwarz and M. Semff (1997), J. C. Lee (1999), and C. Wylie (1999).
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Brice Marden.
Magazine article from: C: International Contemporary Art; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; BRICE MARDEN Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin The surest...my surprise when, while touring the Brice Marden retrospective at the Hamburger Bahnhof...really pops!"). I have never liked Brice Marden. Although this retrospective didn...
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Visual Art: Shy, assertive, even lonely, his wiggly lines are moody trails Brice Marden Serpentine Gallery, London
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/26/2000; ; 700+ words
; Brice Marden is an easy painter to like, and, for...metaphor for what it's like to be Brice Marden. Aged 50-something, you desert the...certainly suggests it's worth trying. Brice Marden: Serpentine Gallery, W2 (020 7402...
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Putting It All on the Lines; When It Comes to Blending Frenzy and Order, Brice Marden Doesn't Mess Around
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/30/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...its favorites have been lavished on Brice Marden. Good. He's earned them with his...are on exhibit here this summer in "Brice Marden, Work of the 1990s: Paintings, Drawings...form. I could have gone on making 'Brice Marden paintings' for the rest of my life...
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Brice Marden
Magazine article from: Artforum; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Brice Marden MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK HOW CAN AN ARTIST keep high modernism alive when rumors of its death abound? This is the question Brice Marden repeatedly confronts throughout the Museum of Modern Art's majestic...
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Painters' paintings: Brice Marden and Chris Ofili in conversation.(Cover story)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 10/1/2006; 700+ words
; Brice Marden came of age amid the artistic ferment of 1960s New York, a context...whispering in your ear. You know, "Don't worry. You'll be OK." BRICE MARDEN: They're wonderful poems. It was nice to read them when I was working...
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The other voices in Brice Marden's drawings
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/14/1998; ; 700+ words
; BRICE MARDEN: WORK BOOKS Traveling show organized by Staatliche Graphische Sammlung...University, Cambridge, through Sept. 6 CAMBRIDGE -- Walking into Brice Marden's show at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum is like walking into his notebooks...
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Arts: Abstraction's rich possibilities In the Sixties Brice Marden was one of the leading New York minimalists, and his paintings from that period still fetch huge sums. But in the last decade he has begin to mine a richer creative seam, as he tells Michael Glover
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/21/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...fashioned abstract painter and sec- ond-generation New York minimalist like Brice Marden doing showing at a hip joint like the Serpentine? Funnily enough, Brice Marden had asked himself a similar question as he was hanging the work in London...
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In regards to the review in C98 of Brice Marden.(LETTER to the EDITOR)
Magazine article from: C: International Contemporary Art; 9/22/2008; ; 640 words
; In Regards to the Review in C98 of Brice Marden, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, by Sholem Krishtalka Krishtalka's critique of Brice Marden's work (by ironically advocating his supposed naivety) provides evidence of a greater trend in contemporary...
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Art; Caught in The Mirror of A Black Square; In Baltimore, Brice Marden's Shimmering Abstract Exploration
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/27/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...years from now, when art historians speak of the graphics of Brice Marden, now on exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art, they...that he can make a gridded rectangle seem a thing alive. "Brice Marden: Prints 1961-1991," which comes to Baltimore from the...
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Brice Marden. (paintings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Brummell recommended spending four hours dressing in order to give the impression that all had been done in four minutes. Brice Marden's new paintings embody the same highly cultivated naturalness. The palette knife, it seems, has replaced the long brushes...
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Brice Marden
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Brice Marden 1938-, American painter, b. Bronxville...1961), Yale Univ. (M.A., 1963). Marden began exhibiting his work in the 1960s...also known for his drawings and prints. Marden, whose work is in the collections of many...
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