• Agnes Martin The Distillation of Color. The book has a pink striped Agnes Martin work covering the cloth cover.
  • The book is open to two pages that have a poem across both written in black text.
  • The book is open to two pages. The right page features the Agnes Martin work Desert Flower and the left page has black text describing the work.
  • The book is open to two pages. The right page has a black and white photograph of Agnes Martin and the left page has a timeline of significant events in the artists life.
  • Five copies of Agnes Martin The Distillation of Color are stacked on top of each other.
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Agnes Martin: The Distillation of Color

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Produced in conjunction with the exhibition Agnes Martin: The Distillation of Color, this book brings new voices to the scholarship around Martin’s work.

In a personal introduction, Pace President and CEO Marc Glimcher reflects on his time with the artist at her home in New Mexico. Lively essays by Durga Chew-Bose, Bruce Hainley, and Olivia Laing explore themes of color and solitude. Martin’s own contemplative writings and an illustrated chronology of her career from 1972 to 1992 by Andria Hickey also figure in the book, and its design and colored paper sections hint at the artist’s singular approach to painting.

Publication details

Contributors: Marc Glimcher, Durga Chew-Bose, Olivia Laing, Bruce Hainley
Publisher: Pace Publishing
Publication date: 2021
Hardcover
172 pages: 30 color illustrations
9 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches
ISBN: 9781948701396
Agnes Martin The Distillation of Color. The book has a pink striped Agnes Martin work covering the cloth cover.
The book is open to two pages that have a poem across both written in black text.
The book is open to two pages. The right page features the Agnes Martin work Desert Flower and the left page has black text describing the work.
The book is open to two pages. The right page has a black and white photograph of Agnes Martin and the left page has a timeline of significant events in the artists life.
Five copies of Agnes Martin The Distillation of Color are stacked on top of each other.

Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin was one of the most influential painters of her generation and left an enduring mark on the history of modern and contemporary art.
Interested in the transcendent potential of painting, Martin was a contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists, and identified her work with the movement. Nonetheless, her oeuvre played a critical role in heralding the advent of Minimalism.

Learn more about the artist