Mary Heilmann's winding, abstract road to success Oct 6, 2008
"It was the kind of thing," she said, "where you'd bring up the subject of David Hockney with Smithson, and you'd get in a fight. Or you'd bring up Andy Warhol with Brice Marden, and you'd get in a fight.". Abandoning her multimedia assemblages in the late '60s, Heilmann was increasingly drawn to painting, a medium that she felt combined the materiality of paint with the childlike wonder of making art. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
William Noguera creates art on death row May 29, 2008
"I'm a fundamentalist when it comes to art," said Noguera, 43, who speaks passionately about Rembrandt, Titian, Rubens, modernists like Rothko and contemporary figures like Brice Marden and Christopher Wahl. He studies their art in journals and prison library books. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bacon painting sets postwar auction record May 15, 2008
Tom Wesselmann, Lee Krasner, Brice Marden, Piero Manzoni and Takashi Murakami set records as well, with Murakami obliterating his old mark of $2. 7-million as My Lonesome Cowboy fetched a whopping $15. (Globe and Mail)
Dane Jensen Presents 'Eye of the Storm: War Through the Lens of American Combat Photographers' Feb 14, 2008
During the span of his career, Jensen has worked with artworks from photographer's such as Patrick McMullan and Tim Street-Porter, 20th C. artists Brice Marden and Bruce Nauman, emerging artists Mark Ryden and Elliot Puckette, and international designers Maarten Baas and Studio Job. Jensen is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Madison's department of Art History. (Primezone Releases)
Contemporary Art Museum at the Presidio Endorsed by Presidio Trust Jan 31, 2008
The Fisher collection includes important works from artists such as Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Diebenkorn, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, Willem DeKooning, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Anselm Kiefer. In addition to the new museum building, the CAMP project includes the rehabilitation of a nearby barracks, Building 101, which will house the museums bookstore and extensive public education programs, and will include a... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
In Milan: Finger-friendly clothes Jan 16, 2008
At Salvatore Ferragamo, Massimiliano Giornetti, the creative director, had inspirations from the contemporary art of Brice Marden and the award winning movie "The Lives of Others" set in the gray communist era of Berlin before the fall of the wall. Although both juiced the designer's creative imagination, who would have known that from the elegant clothes that strode the runway. (International Herald Tribune)
Kenneth Baker's art moments Dec 30, 2007
"Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings": A perfect marriage of art and venue - the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - this show let visitors walk within the sensibility of a major contemporary abstract painter. "In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon": Avedon's 1986 album of portraits from chance encounters with ordinary folks in the West attained discomfiting intensity, presented in just the way the late photographer intended by Stanford's Cantor Center for... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
City Of The Gods Nov 25, 2007
"No visit to Greece would be complete without touring at least some of the islands. Most people go to Santorini or Mykonos. For us, Hydra is the most special. The island has fully preserved eighteenth and nineteenth century stone mansions. There are no cars; everyone meets on foot. Hydra also has one of the largest resident artist colonies in all of Europe. Perhaps the most famous artist is Brice Marden, who has pieces in New York's Museum of Modern Art, and regularly sells work for tens of... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
SFMOMA's Neal Benezra balances art and money Sep 7, 2007
Benezra has overseen a remarkable string of special exhibitions, including retrospectives of American artists Brice Marden and Richard Tuttle, a revealing and tremendously popular survey devoted to Marc Chagall, the recent "Picasso and American Art," and the current "Matisse: Painter as Sculptor," which ends Sept. 16 ... Major exhibitions: "Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting" (2002), "Marc Chagall" (2003), "Diane Arbus Revelations" (2003), "Philip Guston Retrospective" (2003), "Chuck... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Major Contemporary Art Museum Proposed for Presidio Aug 9, 2007
The Fisher Collection includes more than 1,000 works by Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Diebenkorn, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, Willem DeKooning, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Anselm Kiefer and numerous other leading artists. "Art is an important part of our life and we want to share our collection with the public so everyone can enjoy it," Donald Fisher said. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Yesterday's commencements May 21, 2007
Honorary degrees: Kovach; Brice Marden, artist; Judy Norsigian , executive director of Our Bodies Ourselves; Samuel O. Thier , president of Massachusetts General Hospital; and Peter H. Vermilye , former CEO of Alliance Capital. Curry College, Milton. (Boston Globe)
Pop, trash, kitsch combine artfully at Rose Museum May 11, 2007
More elaborately, in another work, a beautiful modern red sofa and a pair of streamlined white floor lamps are arranged in front of a large painting of wide stripes resembling a Brice Marden, which is hung on a white wall patterned by neatly painted pink silhouettes of rats. What Armleder is suggesting in these and similar works is that contrary to the old modernist idea of abstract paintings as transcendental objects, things like paintings and chairs -- and lamps, mirrors, and wallpaper -- are... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Nobel-winning physicist to speak at commencement May 5, 2007
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- Jonathan Jones May 1, 2007
Brice Marden and Richard Serra were born in 1938 and 1939 respectively, and were contemporaries at Yale. Their abstract art is as strong as anything in the American heritage. (Guardian Unlimited)
Cheeta speaks Apr 22, 2007
Some of my canvases recall the late Pollock, some are straight-up Kandinsky, with a dash of Brice Marden. I like to say my style is always evolving. (Los Angeles Times)
A Conversation with Brice Marden Mar 5, 2007
There's more to a Brice Marden painting than meets the eye, as Art Critic Kenneth Baker found out while spending time with the artist for today's cover story. Depending on the lighting, the space and the sequence in which paintings are hung, the viewer's experience can be very different. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Hanging With Brice Marden Mar 4, 2007
With this in mind, having seen "Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings" in New York, I persuaded Marden and the show's curator, Gary Garrels, to discuss the show's preparation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, while it was in progress ... "That space is very theatrical," Garrels said of New York MOMA's top floor, where "Brice Marden" appeared ... To see a video of Brice Marden's walk through his exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, go to sfgate. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
"Brice Marden: A Retrospective," Mar 4, 2007
Hanging With Brice Marden ... Hanging With Brice Marden ... With this in mind, having seen "Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings" in New York, I persuaded Marden and the show's curator, Gary Garrels, to discuss the show's preparation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, while it was in progress. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Insurance costs slam museums Jan 15, 2007
One of them, "Brice Marden," which comes from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, will cost more than $1 million to insure, sending SFMOMA scrambling to cover the budget shortfall. This article is for Paid Print Subscribers ONLY.. (San Francisco Business Times, CA)
