Marden, Brice

Marden, Brice

▪ American artist
born Oct. 15, 1938, Bronxville, N.Y., U.S.

      American artist whose spare and subtle paintings of the 1960s helped define minimalist painting (minimalism). His seemingly more expressionist and active images of the 1980s and '90s and beyond caused a renewal of interest in his work.

      Marden attended Boston University (B.F.A., 1961) and Yale (M.F.A., 1963) and moved to New York City in 1963. By the mid-1960s Marden had developed a rarefied and delicate sense of colour, and, in works that were monochromatic or, more usually, where he would set several identically sized rectangular canvases together, horizontally or vertically, he proposed nuanced juxtapositions of tone that were extremely attentive and rich. In many of these works, Marden employed encaustic, a medium that suspends pigment in oil and beeswax, giving his surfaces a lustrous and diaphanous quality (e.g., D'après la marquise de la Solana, 1969). The usually narrow range of shades in these works provided a subtle but surprisingly intense comment on colour.

      Long active as a printmaker and draftsman, Marden in the mid-1980s began to experiment with more gestural brushwork and a more calligraphic use of line. Spidery lines sweeping across coloured fields seemed a departure from his earlier concerns, though both bodies of work were united by their richly worked surfaces. In his earlier work Marden concealed that process beneath seemingly imperturbable final surfaces, but in his later work he allowed more of its genesis to be visible. An example of his later style can be found in his Cold Mountain series, including Cold Mountain 6 (Bridge) (1989–91).

Additional Reading
Exhibition catalogues include David Whitney, Brice Marden: Paintings and Drawings (1992); Jeremy Lewison, Brice Marden: Prints, 1961–1991 (1992); and Eva Keller and Regula Malin (eds.), Brice Marden (2003), in German and English.

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