An interesting little show of Brice Marden's 'Graphite Drawings' is currently on at Matthew Marks, until 21st December, looks great, what do you mean they look too much like Malevich, outrageous...
'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 gallery also has some great classics of Marden's:
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Untitled 1971
Graphite and beeswax on Arches 300lb Fin (Medium) Natural White paper 30 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches; 78 x 57 cm |
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Untitled 1964 - 65
Charcoal and graphite on white wove paper 19 3/4 x 22 1/4 inches; 50 x 57 cm |
'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 gallery also has some great classics of Marden's:
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Second Letter (Zen Spring)
2006-2009, Oil on linen 96 x 144 inches; 244 x 366 cm |
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Epitaph Painting 5
1997-2001, Oil on linen 108 1/2 x 104 inches; 275.5 x 264 cm |
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