Agnes Bernice Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004) was an American abstract painter. Often referred to as a minimalist, Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist. Her work has been defined as an "essay in discretion, inwardness and silence".
Agnes Bernice Martin was born in 1912 to Scottish Presbyterian farmers in Macklin, Saskatchewan, one of four children. From 1919, she grew up in Vancouver. She moved to the United States in 1931 to help her pregnant sister, Mirabell in Bellingham, Washington. She preferred American higher education and became an American citizen in 1950. Martin studied at Western Washington University College of Education, Bellingham, Washington, prior to receiving her B.A. (1942) from Teachers College, Columbia University. In 1947 she attended the Summer Field School of the University of New Mexico in Taos, New Mexico. After hearing lectures by the Zen Buddhist scholar D. T. Suzuki at Columbia, she became interested in Asian thought, not as a religious discipline, but as a code of ethics, a practical how-to for getting through life. A few years following graduation, Martin matriculated at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, where she also taught art courses before returning to Columbia University to earn her M.A. (1952). She moved to New York City in 1957 and lived in a loft in Coenties Slip in lower Manhattan. She left New York City in 1967, disappearing from the art world to live alone. After eighteen months on the road, Martin settled in Cuba, New Mexico (1968-1977), and then Galisteo, New Mexico (1977-1993). She built an adobe home for herself in both locations. She lived alone all her adult life. In 1993 she moved to a retirement residence in Taos, New Mexico, where she lived until her death in 2004.
"Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly."
"My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind."
"To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind."
"When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection."
"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings."
"Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art."
"Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life."
Dec. 19 ... Through March 2, The DetroitCollection Part I, Detroit-based artists and designers, featuring Subtleism” Neha Vedpathak with AgnesMartin and Toshiko Takaezu “Worlds Within,” cranbrookartmuseum.org, general admission-$10, free for ArtMembers.
Dec. 12 ... Through March 2, The DetroitCollection Part I, Detroit-based artists and designers, featuring Subtleism” Neha Vedpathak with AgnesMartin and Toshiko Takaezu “Worlds Within,” cranbrookartmuseum.org, general admission-$10, free for ArtMembers.
6 ... “Her decades-long friend and mentor AgnesMartin helped Yank shape her artistic vision of the natural world and the harmonic mind,” Tonya Turner Carroll of the Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe said of the artist ... .
Dec. 5 ... Through March 2, The DetroitCollection Part I, Detroit-based artists and designers, featuring Subtleism” Neha Vedpathak with AgnesMartin and Toshiko Takaezu “Worlds Within,” cranbrookartmuseum.org, general admission-$10, free for ArtMembers.
“From time to time, language dies ...Photograph ... I also enjoyed how Victoria Chang uses the paintings of AgnesMartin as a jumping-off point for her existential ruminations in the Forward prize-winning (Little, Brown).skip past newsletter promotion ... .
Jan ... 30 ... Through March 2, The DetroitCollection Part I, Detroit-based artists and designers, featuring Subtleism” Neha Vedpathak with AgnesMartin and Toshiko Takaezu “Worlds Within,” cranbrookartmuseum.org, general admission-$10, free for ArtMembers.
Courtesy of Sotheby's ... “Only at Sotheby’s can you get your expensive banana ... Sign Up For Our Daily Newsletter. Sign Up ... AgnesMartin’s delicate Untitled #12 (1999) also saw a respectable result, selling for slightly above its estimate at $3,120,000.
Nov. 21 ... Through March 2, The DetroitCollection Part I, Detroit-based artists and designers, featuring Subtleism” Neha Vedpathak with AgnesMartin and Toshiko Takaezu “Worlds Within,” cranbrookartmuseum.org, general admission-$10, free for ArtMembers.
Nov. 14 ... Through March 2, The DetroitCollection Part I, Detroit-based artists and designers, featuring Subtleism” Neha Vedpathak with AgnesMartin and Toshiko Takaezu “Worlds Within,” cranbrookartmuseum.org, general admission-$10, free for ArtMembers.
Through March 2, The DetroitCollection Part I, Detroit-based artists and designers, featuring Subtleism” Neha Vedpathak with AgnesMartin and Toshiko Takaezu “Worlds Within,” cranbrookartmuseum.org, general admission-$10, free for ArtMembers.
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