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Copyright the artist | | | Martin, Agnes (1912 - 2004) USA
Untitled #8, 1989
Acrylic and graphite on canvas; 183 x 183 cm Minimalism
UID 102-361
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Biography
American painter and writer, born in Maklin, Canada. In 1932, she moved to the United States and, between 1941 and 1954, studied Art History at Columbia University in New York City, where she majored in Fine Arts and Arts Education. Martin spent her first summer in New Mexico in Taos, in 1947, as a student at the University of New Mexico's summer school. In Taos, she met other modernist artist. She remained primarily in New Mexico until 1957, spending time in Taos and Albuquerque (where she was teaching at the University of New Mexico), as well as New York. Influenced by an early Abstract Expressionism, Agnes Martin made biomorphic Surrealist paintings. Around 1957, she met artists like Kelly, Indiana, Jack Youngerman and Rosenquist who influenced her work, namely in the adoption of square structures for her painting. In 1958, she held a one-woman show at the Betty Parson Gallery in New York and, in 1967, she moved to Cuba, New Mexico, where she turned mostly to writing. In 1973-74, she travelled to Germany, where she had exhibitions at the Kunstraum München, the Kunsthalle Tübingen and the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld. In 1972 and 1977, she participated in documenta 5 and 6 in Kassel. In 1989, she was elected to the American Academy and to the Institute of Art and Literature and, in 1991, she received the Javlensky Prize awarded by the town of Wiesbaden. In the seventies, her light paintings with stripes done on canvas or transparent plastic, anticipated what was to be called fundamental painting. In 1992, the Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective exhibition of her work, and in 1997 she was awarded the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale.
Exhibitions
Here and Now: On Minimal Art in The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 18-10-2003 ~ 22-02-2004
The Berardo Collection - A Voyage through the 20th Century Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 04-12-2004 ~ 30-04-2005
Building/Unbuilding/Inhabit - works of The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 29-04-2005 ~ 15-01-2006
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
Nova Apresentação da Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-11-1999 ~ 01-03-2000
Berardo Museum Opening Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 09-09-2007
Bibliography
Here and Now: On Minimal Art in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972990300X
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
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