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Director Ealan Wingate comments that, “Brice Marden’s Red, Yellow, and Blue paintings explore the intersection of the theoretical juxtaposition of what is known as primary colors with the visual understanding of how those colors hold and permeate a plane creating an abstract as well as a contemplative and physical relationship through the tonal ranges of these colors.” By seeing the four works concurrently, the chromatic relationships Marden examines become all the more apparent and synthesized for the viewer.” |
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© Brice Marden. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Robert McKeever
Historic Brice Marden’s on View at Gagosian Uptown
Brice Marden’s famed 1974 Red, Yellow, Blue paintings are on exhibit at the Gagosian Gallery’s Madison Avenue location until February 23. Through generous loans from private collections, the ALbright Knox Museumn, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, all four paintings can viewed be alongside each other for the first time in history.
Director Ealan Wingate comments that, “Brice Marden’s Red, Yellow, and Blue paintings explore the intersection of the theoretical juxtaposition of what is known as primary colors with the visual understanding of how those colors hold and permeate a plane creating an abstract as well as a contemplative and physical relationship through the tonal ranges of these colors.” By seeing the four works concurrently, the chromatic relationships Marden examines become all the more apparent and synthesized for the viewer.
Marden’s creative trajectory is also able to witnessed at the Gagosian. The artist states, “I paint paintings made up of one, two, or three panels. I work from panel to panel. I will paint on one until I arrive at a color that holds that plane. I move to another panel and paint until something is holding that plane that also interestingly relates to the other panels. I work the third, searching for a color value that pulls the planes together into a plane that has aesthetic meaning.”
This is the last week to see this show. Do not miss it.
