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Fifth Installation in Agnes Martin Retrospective on View at Dia:Beacon
The fifth and final installment in an ongoing series of exhibitions devoted to Agnes Martin's work, "Homage to [a] Life: Paintings 1990- 2004," will be on view at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, from April 6 through November 26, 2007. Organized by Dia Art Foundation, this presentation of some twenty paintings produced during the last decade of Martin's career culminates a career-long survey.
Dia's retrospective began in May 2004 with "…going forward into unknown territory…," which featured works from 1957 to 1967, when Martin lived and worked in New York City. The second installation, "…unknown territory…," highlighted paintings from the mid-1960s. "To The Islands," the third presentation in the series, explored the period from 1974 through 1979, when Martin resumed painting after a seven-year hiatus. The fourth installment, "A Field of Vision," focused on her practice during the 1980s.
"Homage to [a] Life" features works from the prolific years in Martin's late career. Exploring both horizontal and vertical fields, Martin remained dedicated to pushing the formal possibilities of her luminous compositions. Adopting a smaller, five-by-five-foot dimension for her canvases in 1993, she also continued her long-standing preoccupation with themes of innocence, joy, and happiness, frequently titling her paintings to evoke these states.
"Homage to [a] Life" will be installed in a trio of galleries at Dia:Beacon. The title is taken from "Agnes Martin: Homage to Life," the last exhibition of Martin's work during her lifetime. A brochure with color images of Martin's paintings and an essay by Dia Art Foundation curator Lynne Cooke will accompany the exhibition.
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries Dia:Beacon, Dia Art Foundation's museum in the Hudson Valley, presents a distinguished collection of contemporary art from the 1960s to the present. Situated on the banks of the Hudson River Beacon, New York, the museum occupies a former Nabisco boxprinting facility, which was renovated by Dia with artist Robert Irwin and architect OpenOffice.
For more information, visit www.diaart.org. Admission is $10 general, $7 for students and seniors, and free for Dia members and children under 12. Current winter hours are 11am to 4pm, Friday through Monday, through April 16, 2007. Summer hours are 11 am to 6 pm, Thursday through Monday. The public information line for the museum is (845) 400-0100.
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