Agnes Martin, Aspiration, 1960, ink on paper, 11 ¾” x 9 ⅜”, Photo by J R via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.
Make the Time: Agnes Martin at the Guggenheim
Tomorrow a major retrospective of artwork by Agnes Martin (1912-2004) will open in the famous rotunda at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. It is a brilliant space to enjoy the subtle variations in her minimalist and expressive oeuvre.
Her hand-drawn grid patterns may seem subversive in the arena of Minimalism, noted for its mechanical techniques of production; however, Martin’s methods were spiritual in impulse, and therefore they operated in a completely separate space. Inspired by Zen Buddhism and Transcendentalism, her meditative process brought her close to the metaphysical realm.
