{"id":13377,"date":"2026-11-04T11:30:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T16:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=13377"},"modified":"2026-11-04T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T16:25:00","slug":"brice-marden-i-am-plane-image-at-gagosian-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/04\/brice-marden-i-am-plane-image-at-gagosian-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Brice Marden, &#8216;I Am Plane Image&#8217; at Gagosian Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fields of solid color greet visitors to <a href=\"https:\/\/gagosian.com\/exhibitions\/2026\/brice-marden-i-am-plane-image\/\">Gagosian Gallery<\/a>\u2019s survey of <a href=\"https:\/\/gagosian.com\/artists\/brice-marden\/\">Brice Marden<\/a>\u2019s abstract paintings from the mid-60s to 2023, the late artist\u2019s first major NY solo show in 20 years, which showcases his evolution from early monochrome works to canvases featuring calligraphic lines over richly colored, shallow spaces.\u00a0 Inspired by an exhibition of Japanese master calligraphy and his travels in Asia, Marden explored thick curving and later more angular lines and glyphs, spending decades refining the relationship between the painting\u2019s surface and its depth. Here, in the late work \u2018Rowdy,\u2019 red lines suggesting organic forms advance beyond a tangle of darker marks in the top register, while below is a long panel that Marden likened to the strip of paintings at the base of a Renaissance altarpiece.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through Dec 12<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1509px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/2f399b65-642b-22de-a73e-b8163f6bb6c8.jpg\" alt=\"An abstract image of tangle lines at the top of the painting and a clearly space below.\" width=\"1509\" height=\"2052\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brice Marden, Rowdy, oil, graphite, and chalk on linen, 96 x 72 inches, 2013 \u2013 21.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fields of solid color greet visitors to Gagosian Gallery\u2019s survey of Brice Marden\u2019s abstract paintings from the mid-60s to 2023, the late artist\u2019s first major NY solo show in 20 years, which showcases his evolution from early monochrome works to canvases featuring calligraphic lines over richly colored, shallow spaces.\u00a0 Inspired by an exhibition of Japanese &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/04\/brice-marden-i-am-plane-image-at-gagosian-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brice Marden, &#8216;I Am Plane Image&#8217; at Gagosian Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[693,11919,145,346,11920],"class_list":["post-13377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-abstract-painting","tag-brice-marden","tag-chelsea-galleries","tag-gagosian-gallery","tag-rowdy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3tL","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13379,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377\/revisions\/13379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}