Untitled Press Series #3
1972
3 stone lithograph on Rives paper
26 3/16" x 19 3/16" unframed
Artist Brice Marden
Exhibition: "Figurative + Abstraction"
The Earl McGrath Gallery
September 21-October 14, 2006
Curator: Dane Jensen
Edition of 40 + 3AP, 1 progressive proof, 1 BAT, 1 Change Inc., 1 Captiva (Lewison pp 64, 102)
Born in Bronxville, New York, he received his BFA at the Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1961, and received his MFA at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture in 1963. It was at Yale that Marden developed the formal strategies that characterized his paintings of the following decades: a preoccupation with rectangular formats and the repeated use of a muted, extremely individualized palette. He has described his early works as highly emotional and subjective, despite their apparent lack of referentiality. More recently he has begun painting works consisting of swirling and entangling lines in two or more colors, as in his celebrated "Cold Mountain" series which was exhibited at the Dia Center for the Arts, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Menil Collection, Houston; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and Kunstmuseum, Bonn, in 1991 and 1992. He is considered to be one of the more important American painters of the late 20th and early 21st century, and has been the subject of several shows and retrospectives, beginning with his 1975 retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In October of 2006 the MoMA in New York will open “Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings” organized by Gary Garrels, Senior Curator, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. It is described as “an unprecedented gathering of his work, with more than fifty paintings and an equal number of drawings, organized chronologically, drawn from all phases of the artist's career.”
The works from the “Untitled Press Series” are rare prints produced to artist Robert Rasuchenberg’s printing facility called Untitled Press on Captiva Island in Florida. The works are a reflection of the loose atmosphere at the facility. All the works from the series are different paper types and sizes. The stones used to make the lithographs and screenprint all vary in size as well. This was not due to design but rather necessity from the lack of adequate materials on hand. The images themselves mirror the unusual atmosphere of Untitled Press as well as they were partially inspired from the massive foliage overgrowth Marden had to battle through each morning to get from his lodgings to the studio. However unorthodox, the idiosyncratic approach gives the suite an added element of contextualization.
Exhibition: "Figurative + Abstraction"
The Earl McGrath Gallery
September 21-October 14, 2006
Curator: Dane Jensen
Edition of 40 + 3AP, 1 progressive proof, 1 BAT, 1 Change Inc., 1 Captiva (Lewison pp 64, 102)
Born in Bronxville, New York, he received his BFA at the Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1961, and received his MFA at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture in 1963. It was at Yale that Marden developed the formal strategies that characterized his paintings of the following decades: a preoccupation with rectangular formats and the repeated use of a muted, extremely individualized palette. He has described his early works as highly emotional and subjective, despite their apparent lack of referentiality. More recently he has begun painting works consisting of swirling and entangling lines in two or more colors, as in his celebrated "Cold Mountain" series which was exhibited at the Dia Center for the Arts, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Menil Collection, Houston; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and Kunstmuseum, Bonn, in 1991 and 1992. He is considered to be one of the more important American painters of the late 20th and early 21st century, and has been the subject of several shows and retrospectives, beginning with his 1975 retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In October of 2006 the MoMA in New York will open “Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings” organized by Gary Garrels, Senior Curator, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. It is described as “an unprecedented gathering of his work, with more than fifty paintings and an equal number of drawings, organized chronologically, drawn from all phases of the artist's career.”
The works from the “Untitled Press Series” are rare prints produced to artist Robert Rasuchenberg’s printing facility called Untitled Press on Captiva Island in Florida. The works are a reflection of the loose atmosphere at the facility. All the works from the series are different paper types and sizes. The stones used to make the lithographs and screenprint all vary in size as well. This was not due to design but rather necessity from the lack of adequate materials on hand. The images themselves mirror the unusual atmosphere of Untitled Press as well as they were partially inspired from the massive foliage overgrowth Marden had to battle through each morning to get from his lodgings to the studio. However unorthodox, the idiosyncratic approach gives the suite an added element of contextualization.
