Background
Brice Marden was born on October 15, 1938 in Bronxville, New York, United States. He is a son of Nicholas Brice Marden and Kathryn (Fox) Marden.
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Florida Southern College
Boston, MA 02215, United States
Boston University
1156 Chapel St, New Haven, CT 06511, United States
Yale School of Art
633 West 155 Street, New York City, NY 10032, United States
American Academy of Arts and Letters, United States
Brice Marden was born on October 15, 1938 in Bronxville, New York, United States. He is a son of Nicholas Brice Marden and Kathryn (Fox) Marden.
Since 1957 to 1958, Brice attended Florida Southern College. In 1958, he enrolled at Boston University, graduating with Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1961. Some time later, Marden continued his studies and got his Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale School of Art in 1963. Alex Katz, Jon Schueler and Jack Tworkov were among his mentors.
In 2000, Marden received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Brown University.
In 1963, Brice moved to New York, where he worked as a guard at the Jewish Museum. The following year, he left for Paris, where he started to create compressed charcoal and graphite grid-patterned drawings. In 1966, Marden served as Robert Rauschenberg's assistant. The same year, Brice held his first solo exhibition at the Bykert Gallery in New York.
At the beginning of the 1970's, Brice traveled to Greece and Asia. His impressions of the southern European landscape, as well as of antique mythology and Greek architecture, had a great impact on his work. Also, during that time, Brice's colours and shapes became lighter and more fluid, than those of his earlier works, and the size of his paintings became more monumental.
In 1975, the retrospective of his works was held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In 1977, the artist received a commission to design a set of stained-glass windows for the cathedral in Basel, which ultimately came to naught after eight years of work.
In 1983, when Brice together with his family visited Thailand, Sri Lanka and India, his formal technique changed significantly. In the works he created after this trip, his curved lines overlap, creating visual parallels with East Asian writing and with the gestural brushstrokes of Abstract Expressionism. Also during that time, Marden turned away from Minimalism toward Gestural Abstraction.
During his lifetime, the artist participated in a number of exhibitions, including Documenta 5 in Kassel (1972). His solo shows inlclude "Brice Marden: Cold Mountain" in New York (1991), "Work Books 1964–1995" in Munich (1997) and others.
In 2017, Brice started to collaborate with Gagosian Gallery, which represented his works. Currently, the artist divides his time between Hydra, Greece and New York.
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St. Barts 10
Grove Group I
Nevisian Triptych
Ru Ware Project
Greece Summer
Untitled (from Adriatics)
Study II
Nebraska
After Botticelli 3
Adriatics (A)
Suicide Note
Sea Painting I
Elements V
Annunciation Study I
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Untitled (Black and Cream Grid)
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Dragons
Untitled from (12 Views for Caroline Tatyana)
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Study for Stander
Cogitatio
Red Yellow Blue Painting No. 1
For Caroline
Attendant 5
Letter with Red
Gulf, from New York Ten (Lewison 16)
Return I
Red Yellow Blue
Beyond Eagles Mere 2
Green Study
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Post Calligraphic Drawing
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Star (for Patti Smith)
The Dylan Painting
Don't Bungle the Jungle
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Grand Street
Grid I (Lewison 17)
Range
Mirabelle Addenda 2
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Avrutun
#10
Untitled (Press Series)
6 Red Rock 1
Au Centre
Grove Group III
Eagles Mere Set, 5
Greece Summer
Couplet III
Untitled with Green
Venus
The Attended
Tour III
St. Barts 1
I
4:1 (for David Novros)
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For Pearl
The Seasons
Nevis Rock
Bridge Study
Untitled (From Ten Days)
Long Letter 1
Blunder
Muses and Meres Series: Richard's Muse
Grove Group 2
Joined
The Propitious Garden of Plane Image (Version One)
First Letter
Thira
Aphrodite Study
Untitled
Red Ground Letter
Red Window Study
Window Study #3
No Test
Focus II
Spanish Painting
White Ground Letter
The Studio
Souvenir de Grèce 14
Third Letter
Hydra Group X
Summer Scroll #8 (Five Kinds of Hydra Trees)
D'après la Marquise de la Solana
Untitled (from Tiles)
Formal Marble
Han Shan Exit
Sea Painting II
Adriatic
Distant Muses
Suicide Notes
Cold Mountain I (Path)
Greece Summer
Untitled (e) From Five Plates
Gulf, from New York Ten (Lewison 16)
Second Letter (Zen Spring)
Polke Letter
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Untitled (Lewison 24-5)
Air & Water
Letter About Rocks #3, Blue Ground
Hydra
Rodeo
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Forgery
Vine
Etchings to Rexroth #1
Cold Mountain Series, Zen Study 6
Summer Table
Untitled (Press Series)
Epitaph Painting 5
To Corfu
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Workbook--Hydra, Tampere, N.Y.C., Bucks Co.
Marble #10
Study for the Virgins
Cyprian Evocation
Quotations:
"I think abstraction is a very rich area. And it is upsetting that people seem to have some fear of it. I'm constantly making these statements about how you should just look at it and react to it on your own; just relax and let go."
"The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave all to chance."
"A work of art is a renewable source of energy."
"When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But I always start far away and end up really close."
"A painting, you know, it's all dirty material. But it's about transformation. Taking that earth, that heavy earthen kind of thing, turning it into air and light."
"I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents."
Brice is a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Physical Characteristics: On Sept. 6, 2017, Brian Marden learned he had cancer, and while is reluctant to discuss his health - he says that he has had good news from his doctors and is having regular sessions of immunotherapy, with minimal side effects.
Brice Marden married Pauline Baez in 1960. The couple gave birth to one child — Nicholas Brice. In 1964, Pauline and Brice divorced. On November 7, 1968, Marden married Helen Marden. Their marriage produced two daughters — Mirabelle Marden and Melia Io Bricia Marden.