Anne Appleby's paintings link to environment Nov 8, 2009
Some have affinities with drawings by Brice Marden or Agnes Martin, even with bar codes. As a series, they have a restless modesty, but it is the only painting on view by Nakada that will make you want to see more. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Ready for takeoff Apr 17, 2009
Painter Brice Marden went to Boston University. Photographer William Wegman attended the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. (Boston Globe)
The gravity of modern-art shift to Pacific Rim Apr 5, 2009
It also makes, or remakes, connections not considered in much of the art literature, such as a linkage between Brice Marden and Franz Kline (1910-1962) through their common interest in Chinese and Japanese calligraphy. The exhibition, and a catalog of lasting interest that accompanies it, also puts classics of late-20th century New York art, including works by Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and Carl Andre, into an unaccustomed context with West Coast art and its... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
'Cezanne and Beyond' ties artist to those he influenced Mar 8, 2009
ger, Gorky, Giorgio Morandi, Liubov Popova, Marsden Hartley, Charles Demuth, Kelly, Johns, Jeff Wall, Brice Marden, Sherrie Levine, and Francis Al s.. If the idea is simple, it must be said that the exhibition teeters on the cusp of incoherence. (Boston Globe)
Philadelphia exhibit shows Cezanne's lasting power Feb 26, 2009
An enormous blue wedge done by Ellsworth Kelly in 2002 was inspired by his favorite Cezanne landscape dominated by a lake of similar shape, and Cezanne's iconic oil paintings of bathers hang adjacent to works of the 1950s through the '80s by modernists Jasper Johns and Brice Marden that disassembled, transfigured and synthesized the originals. "Much of what modern art is about is distillation," said curator Katherine Sachs. (Yahoo News)
Meditations on Asia in American art Feb 8, 2009
" Now that he's gone - he died in 1997 - five small crystals take his place. Multimedia Photos: East and West meet? Today in Culture The show finds the museum unusually full of sounds, however faint. Bells held in a kind of cage periodically sail down the spiral and ring. Synthesizers drone and vibrate away somewhere, and an amplified buzzing of bees has, when you get close, the roar of fighter planes. Periodically, parcels of books descend by pulley from on high, as part of an elaborate... (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
