Brice Marden
American, 1938–2023
Marden received an M.F.A. from the Yale University School of Art and Architecture in 1963. It was at Yale, under instruction from artists including Alex Katz and Jon Schueler, and working alongside students Richard Serra and Chuck Close, that Marden arrived at the rectangular format and muted, extremely individualized palette that characterize his early monochromatic panels. Over the course of his career, Marden’s work has developed to reveal the range of influences he has absorbed during his travels around the world. The light and landscape of the Greek island of Hydra and the art, landscape, and culture of Asia are manifested in the heightened colors and calligraphic gestures of his work. The Museum of Modern Art in New York City presented a retrospective of Marden’s work in 2006 and he has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City; the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany; and the Serpentine and Tate galleries, London.
“This etching is the first finished of a group based on drawings made in response to the letters of the great Song calligraphers. It is, among other things, about communication.”
Photo © 2006 Mirabelle Marden
