Brice Marden was born October 15, 1938, in Bronxville,
New York. He attended Florida Southern College, Lakeland, from 1957 to 1958
and the Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts from 1958 to 1961,
when he received his B.F.A. Degree. In the summer of 1961, he attended Yale
Norfolk Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, Connecticut, and went
on to enroll at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New
Haven, receiving an M.F.A. Degree in 1963.
It was at Yale that Brice Marden developed the formal strategies that
characterized his paintings of the following decades: a preoccupation
with rectangular formats and the repeated use of a muted, extremely individualized
palette. He has described his early works as highly emotional and subjective,
despite their apparent lack of referentially.
Baez, whom he had married in 1960, and with whom he had a son, Nicholas.
They later divorced and he married Helen Harrington in 1969. Brice Marden
worked as a guard in 1963 and 1964 at the Jewish Museum, where he came
into contact with the work of Jasper Johns, an artist whom he studied
in depth and whose work furthered his interest in gridded compositions.
winter of 1964. It was during this time that his first solo exhibition
was presented at the Wilcox Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
Marden spent the spring and summer of 1964 in Paris, where he was inspired
by the work of Alberto Giacometti. His first solo show in New York was
held at the Bykert Gallery in 1966, and in the fall of that year, he became
the general assistant to Robert Rauschenberg. In 1968, he began constructing
his paintings with multiple panels. From 1969 to 1974, he was a painting
instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
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