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Agnes Bernice Martin

Agnes Bernice Martin (1912 - 2004) was active/lived in New York, New Mexico, Saskatchewan / Canada.  Agnes Martin is known for Biomorph to minimal-grid images.

One of the leading contemporary artists in 20th-century America, Agnes Martin was known for her monochromatic, geometric grid painting that combined paint and faintly wavering pencil lines.  She is considered a forerunner of Minimalist art.  She began her career in New York, and spent her later years in New Mexico from where she managed to maintain a national reputation.  

She lived most of her life "fundamentally as a loner" (Cotter).  In 1967 when her career was ascending in New York, she left the city, traveled the country in a pick-up camper and quit painting for seven years.   Likely her desire to be alone was related to her innate way of dealing with turmoil, which was to withdraw unto herself and go into a trance-like state, clinically defined as catatonia.  She later told stories of these reactions that began in her childhood and included an experience in Bombay, India where she fell into such a deep trance that s   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6922 characters.]  Artist bio

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