This exhibition includes twenty-two of Brice Marden's seminal early works on paper and is the first exhibition devoted solely to this body of work. The drawings, made between 1962 and 1981, feature luxurious surfaces of graphite and beeswax worked into dense, reflective planes of blacks, whites, and grays. Within these surfaces, Marden reveals the underlying geometries of the rectangle and the grid, a formal strategy that has characterized his work from the 1960s to the present.
The art historian Richard Shiff has written of the early graphite drawings, "Marden's black reveals its qualities only to those who look and can see its changes...Each area of blackness has its history, its experiential specificity."
Brice Marden: Graphite Drawings
November 9 - December 21, 2013
523 W 24 Street
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