Brice Marden lived and worked in New York City; Tivoli, New York; Hydra, Greece; and Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania.
24 Facts About Brice Marden
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Brice Marden met Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger and lived for a while at Joan Baez's house in Carmel, California.
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Brice Marden relocated to New York City in 1963, where he came into contact with the work of Jasper Johns while employed as a guard at the Jewish Museum during the museum's 1964 retrospective of Johns' oeuvre.
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Brice Marden made his first monochromatic single-panel painting in the winter of 1964.
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In 1966, at Dorothea Rockburne's suggestion, Brice Marden was hired by Robert Rauschenberg to work as his assistant.
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Brice Marden created the lithograph Gulf in 1969 while at Chiron Press.
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Brice Marden gradually increased the number of panels, arranging them into post-and-lintel configurations.
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In 1977 Brice Marden was commissioned to design the windows lining the apse of the Basel Cathedral, a project that he labored on continuously from 1978 to 1985.
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In 1977, Brice Marden traveled to Rome and Pompeii, where he strengthened his interest in Roman and Greek art and architecture, which would influence his work of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Between 1981 and 1987, Brice Marden made a total of 31 paintings on marble, all of them produced in Hydra.
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Brice Marden subsequently incorporated numerous elements of certain Asian traditions into his work, making them one key to his process.
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In 2000, Brice Marden embarked on The Propitious Garden of Plane Image, the longest two of which measure 24 feet.
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Brice Marden participated in hundreds of group exhibitions, and his work has been the subject of numerous one-person shows and retrospectives.
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In 1991, Brice Marden was a participant in the Connections series of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for which the artist juxtaposed about three dozen of his abstract canvases and works on paper and marble with works from the permanent collection by the likes of Edouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Goya, James Ensor, and Francisco de Zurbaran.
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In 1960, Brice Marden married Pauline Baez and together they had a son, Nicholas.
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Brice Marden's son, Nick Marden, is a bassist who has participated in the New York punk scene since the late 1970s playing in bands such as the Stimulators and False Prophets.
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Melia Brice Marden is the chef of the New York restaurant group The Smile.
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From 1987 to 2000 Brice Marden's studio was located on the Bowery.
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Brice Marden died at his home in Tivoli, New York, on August 9,2023, at the age of 84.
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In 1988, Brice Marden became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Brice Marden was represented by the Gagosian Gallery from 2017 on.
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Brice Marden had previously worked with the Matthew Marks Gallery for more than twenty years.
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One of Brice Marden's paintings sold for nearly $3 million at Christie's in May 2006.
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Auction prices for Brice Marden are now almost as high as those for an old master like Rembrandt, whose current auction record is $33.2 million.