Brice Marden
Brice Marden (* October 15, 1938 in Bronxville, New York) is an American artist. It is often classified as a representative of minimalism, although his work exclusively to this flow can not be attributed.
Life
Marden grew up in Briarcliff Manor on in New York State. From 1956 to 1958 he attended Florida Southern College in Lakeland, then, the Bachelor of Fine Arts was awarded to 1961 the Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts at the same year. In 1961 he studied for a short time at Yale University Summer School of Music and Arts in Norfolk, Connecticut, where he met Chuck Close, Richard Serra and Nancy Graves.
On August 20, 1960 married Brice Marden Pauline Baez, sister of singer Joan Baez. In 1963 he finished his studies begun in 1961 at Yale University of Art and Architecture with a Master of Arts and moved to New York on the Lower East Side with his wife and who was born on March 23, 1961 son of Nicholas Brice Marden II. After his divorce from Pauline Baez in 1964, he married on November 7, 1969, the painter Helen Harrington, with whom he first time in 1971, the Greek island of Hydra, visited the summer he regularly retires on since 1973. The impressions made while there find in his work a noticeable precipitation ( eg Souvenir de Grèce, works on paper, 1974-1996 ). On November 15, 1978, the daughter Maya Mirabelle Marden was Zahara and the daughter Melia Marden Io Bricia born on 24 June 1980.
Work
As a supervisor at the Jewish Museum in New York, he was able to work intensively with the work of Jasper Johns, which was exhibited in a retrospective exhibition in 1964 there. During this time he began to paint his monochromatic images, which initially consisted only of one panel. This was followed by his first solo exhibition in the gallery Wilcox in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. During a stay in Paris the following year he began to work graphically. He also dealt with the work of Alberto Giacometti and Jean Fautrier.
From the autumn of 1966, he worked as an assistant to Robert Rauschenberg in New York and had his first New York solo exhibition at the Gallery Bykert. Here he first showed his wax pictures he painted with a special color, consisting of oil paint and beeswax. 1968 Marden began to compose images from multiple panels.
A trip to Thailand, Sri Lanka and India in 1983 inspired Marden of Asian culture, art and landscape. He referred then many elements of this culture in his work with a (Shell Drawings, 1985-87 ). A visit to an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy in 1984 sparked his interest in this art, which exerted a decisive influence on his younger work. An example of this is its 180 x 83 cm oil painting from the years 1995/96 Tang Dancer, the (2011) hangs in a private collection or be oil painting Untitled # 1 from 1986 in the format of 183 × 147 cm which today (2012 ) hangs in the Daros Collection in Zurich.
2000 Marden began work on his most ambitious painting, The Propitious Garden of Plane Image.
Marden has participated in numerous group exhibitions (including 1972 at the Documenta 5 in Kassel) and has already been recognized in several solo exhibitions and retrospectives, first with his retrospective in 1975 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In October 2006, opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the exhibition " Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings ", which was shown in the spring of 2007 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and in the fall of 2007 at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum was for the presence in Berlin to see. German art critics have this exhibition " exhibition of 2007 " award.