Agnes Martin - Lévy Gorvy
  • Painting by Agnes Martin, "Untitled," 2003.

    Agnes Martin Untitled 2003 Acrylic and graphite on canvas 60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm) Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein Artwork © Agnes Martin / DACS 2019

Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin

With a reduced palette and gridded format, the work of Agnes Martin inspires viewers to consider the meditative qualities of repetition and the subtle variations in tone and line. Born in Macklin, Saskatchewan, in 1912, the artist received her undergraduate degree from Teachers College of Columbia University in 1942. During the 1940s and ‘50s, while living in New Mexico, Martin produced a large number of portraits and landscapes. Shortly after moving back to New York in 1957, the artist became a part of a thriving art scene, and began to develop the minimal style for which she is best known. In 1968 the artist returned to New Mexico, abstaining from art-making for seven years to pursue her career as a poet. Upon returning to painting, Martin began to hone her style down to a set of fundamental principles of line and scale that came to define the second half of her career. During her lifetime, Martin’s work was showcased in retrospective shows organized by by the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Dia:Beacon, New York. Martin died in Taos in 2004. Her body of work was posthumously celebrated with a retrospective organized by the Tate Modern, London, in 2015, which subsequently traveled to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Selected Works

  • Painting by Agnes Martin, "Untitled," 2003.

    Agnes Martin
    Untitled
    2003
    Acrylic and graphite on canvas
    60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
    Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein
    Artwork © Agnes Martin / DACS 2019

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  • Painting by Agnes Martin, "Untitled No.9," 2003.

    Agnes Martin
    Untitled No.9
    2003
    Acrylic and graphite on canvas
    60 x 60 inches (152 x 152 cm)
    Photo: Stephen White
    Artwork © Agnes Martin / DACS 2019

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Exhibitions

Agnes Martin

FOCUS: Agnes Martin

London

February 22 - April 13, 2019

 Agnes Martin

Drawing Then: Innovation and Influence in American Drawings of the Sixties

New York

January 27 - March 26, 2016

 Agnes Martin

Form, Line, Contour

New York

May 13 - 13, 2013

 Agnes Martin

Beyond Black, White, and Gray

New York

September 12 - October 10, 2009

 Agnes Martin

The Complexity of the Simple

New York

December 1, 2007 - February 2, 2008

 Agnes Martin

Elemental Form

New York

October 19 - December 16, 2006

Selected Press

Blouin Artinfo | Agnes Martin’s “FOCUS” at Lévy Gorvy, London

February 8, 2019

With a reduced palette and gridded format, the work of Agnes Martin inspires viewers to consider the …

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T The New York Times Style Magazine | Returning, Again, to American Drawing in the 1960s

January 27, 2016

An installation view of “Drawing Then: Innovation and Influence in American Drawings of the Sixties.” …

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