She moved to New York City after being discovered by the artist/gallery owner Betty Parsons in 1957. Her work is most closely associated with Taos, with some of her early work visibly inspired by the desert environment of New Mexico. Jaleh Mansoor, an art historian, states that Martin was "too engaged in a feminist relation to practice, perhaps, to objectify and label it as such". She often employed an intersectional feminist lens when she critiqued fellow artists' work. They never occur without happiness."Ī pioneer of her time, Agnes Martin never publicly expressed her sexuality, but has been described as a 'closeted homosexual' (sic). In an interview in 1989, discussing her life and her painting, Agnes Martin said, "Beauty and perfection are the same. Many of her paintings bear very positive names such as “Happy Holiday” (1999) and “I Love the Whole World” (2000). She was publicly known to have schizophrenia, once opting for electric shock therapy for treatment. In 1993 she moved to a retirement residence in Taos, New Mexico, where she lived until her death in 2004. She built an adobe home for herself in each location. After eighteen months on the road, Martin settled in Cuba, New Mexico (1968-1977), and then Galisteo, New Mexico (1977-1993). She left New York City in 1967, disappearing from the art world to live alone. She moved to New York City in 1957 and lived in a loft in Coenties Slip in lower Manhattan. A few years following graduation, Martin matriculated at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, where she also taught art courses before returning to Columbia University to earn her M.A.
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Suzuki at Columbia, she became interested in Asian thought, not as a religious discipline, but as a code of ethics, a practical how-to for getting through life. After hearing lectures by the Zen Buddhist scholar D. In 1947 she attended the Summer Field School of the University of New Mexico in Taos, New Mexico. (1942) from Teachers College, Columbia University. Martin studied at Western Washington University College of Education, Bellingham, Washington, prior to receiving her B.A. She preferred American higher education and became an American citizen in 1950. She moved to the United States in 1931 to help her pregnant sister, Mirabell, in Bellingham, Washington. She was awarded a National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1998.Īgnes Bernice Martin was born in 1912 to Scottish Presbyterian farmers in Macklin, Saskatchewan, one of four children. Although she is often considered or referred to as a minimalist, Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist. Her work has been defined as an "essay in discretion on inward-ness and silence". Agnes Bernice Martin (Ma– December 16, 2004), born in Canada, was an American abstract painter.
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