Agnes Martin: A Roundtable Discussion of New Scholarship
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- In anticipation of the Agnes Martin traveling retrospective, scholars will discuss their research projects, many of which are in progress. Special attention will be given to challenges of (re)constructing an artist's legacy, given that much information about Martin (1912-2004) has not been in circulation, and publications are few. Presented by the School of Art and Design History and Theory (www.newschool.e...) and the School of Art, Media, and Technology (www.newschool.e..., both part of Parsons The New School for Design (www.newschool.e...
Panel participants include:
• Tiffany Bell (editor at Artifex Press, and co-curator of the Agnes Martin retrospective), who will speak about her work as editor of Martin's digital catalogue raisonné
• Roger Cook (Royal Academy Schools,London), who will speak on his article theorizing Martin's sexuality in relation to her artwork, "Doorknob in the Desert: Agnes Martin's Queer Becoming"
• Suzanne Hudson (University of Southern California), who will speak about her book on Martin's painting Night Sea, which is part of the MIT Press series of books on one work of art
• Nancy Princenthal (School of Visual Arts, former senior editor for Art in America), who will speak about her forthcoming book, Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art, the first Agnes Martin biography/monograph
The conversation will be moderated by artist Karen Schiff, who has reviewed books on Agnes Martin for Art Journal and Art in America. Her "Agnes Martin Obituary Project" has been exhibited in New York and in Marfa, Texas, and is online at Art Journal.
Friday, February 13, 2015 at 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
TIFFANY BELL is Co-Curator of the upcoming Agnes Martin retrospective (2015-16), and Editor of Martin’s forthcoming digital catalogue raisonné (online at Artifex Press). She was also co-curator (with Jina Brenneman) of the exhibition, Agnes Martin: Before the Grid, which opened at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico, during Martin’s centenary year (2012); versions of this exhibition traveled to the Albright-Knox Museum (Buffalo, NY), the University of New Mexico Art Museum (Albuquerque), and the Tacoma Art Museum (WA). Previously, she was the director of the Dan Flavin Catalogue Raisonné project, which resulted in the publication of Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights, 1961-1996 (Dia and Yale University Press: 2004); she also curated several museum and gallery exhibitions of Flavin’s lights. She has taught at Pratt, and worked as a freelance curator and critic; her articles have appeared in Art in America, Arts Magazine, and Artforum, among other publications.
ROGER COOK is writing “‘Doorknob in the Desert’: Agnes Martin’s Queer Becoming” for the new British Journal of Contemporary Painting (forthcoming in 2015). He is an independent scholar affiliated with the Royal Academy Schools, London. He taught for four decades in the Department of Fine Art, University of Reading, where he also taught Lesbian & Gay studies, co-editing and contributing to Indeterminate Bodies (Palgrave 2003). A previous book project wasThe Tree of Life: Image for the Cosmos (Thames & Hudson, 1974; 1988). After retirement in 2005 he was a Visiting Fellow researching dandyism at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London. Among his recent publications, he has written about artist Lukas Duwenhögger (for Afterall journal, 2007), and his online conversation with Sharon Hayes appeared in Frieze (2010). His study of “Aesthetic Revolution: The Staging of (‘Homosexual’) Equality and Contemporary Art” (borderlands e-journal, 2009) appeared in the special issue, "Jacques Rancière on the Shores of Queer Theory."
SUZANNE HUDSON is the author of a book on Martin’s painting Night Sea (Afterall Books / MIT Press, forthcoming in 2016), in the Afterall series of book-length studies of single artworks. She has lectured on Martin’s print portfolio, On A Clear Day, and her essay “Agnes Martin, On a Clear Day” was included in Agnes Martin, the only critical anthology now in print (Yale/Dia, 2012). This past year, she wrote about Martin’s artistically productive friendship with Ad Reinhardt for The Brooklyn Rail. Her book projects include Robert Ryman: Used Paint (October Books / MIT Press, 2009; 2011), Contemporary Art: 1989-Present (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), and Painting Now (Thames & Hudson, 2015). She is Assistant Professor of Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Southern California, where she also serves on the advisory committee for the Visual Studies Research Institute. She has taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she cofounded the Contemporary Art Think Tank and became the founding president of the Society of Contemporary Art Historians, an affiliate society of the College Art Association. Her criticism has appeared in Art Journal, Flash Art, October, and Parkett, and since 2004 she has been a regular contributor to Artforum.
NANCY PRINCENTHAL has written Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art (Thames and Hudson, 2015), which is the first biography/monograph about Martin. In 2013, she wrote in the Brooklyn Rail about “the question of tact, of discretion” in creating biographical material about Martin, who wished to remain private yet contributed to Mary Lance’s documentary film, Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World. She has been writing about contemporary art for more than twenty-five years and was a senior editor at Art in America for five years. She has also written for many other publications, including Artforum, ArtNews, the New York Times, Parkett, and the Village Voice. She teaches in the Art Criticism and Writing M.F.A. program at the School of Visual Arts (NYC), has taught at Princeton, NYU, Yale, Bard, and RISD, and this semester is the Critic-in-Residence at the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore). In her most recent book project, she was co-author (with Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, and Sue Scott) of The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium (Prestel, 2013), a follow-up to their After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art (Prestel, 2007; 2013). She also wrote a monograph on Hannah Wilke (Prestel, 2010).
KAREN SCHIFF wrote about Agnes Martin’s life and career for Tate Etc. magazine (2015, reprinted in Momus). She is an artist in New York, with a studio in Brooklyn; some of her artworks reflect on Martin’s work. Her Agnes Martin Obituary Project appeared in “Imprinting Agnes Martin,” an overview of her artworks involving Martin and printed texts (Art Journal online, College Art Association,12/19/14). As an English professor, she has taught in the new Integrative Foundations program at Parsons, and she advises Design Studies thesis projects at the Boston Architectural College. She reviewed both of the groundbreaking books published on Martin in 2012: Arne Glimcher’s Agnes Martin: Paintings, Writings, Remembrances (Phaidon), for Art in America, and the critical anthology edited by Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly, Agnes Martin (Yale/Dia), for Art Journal. She discussed Martin’s aversion to language in her Brooklyn Rail article, “Beyond Thinking” (March 2013). Her projects about Martin are collected at .
Thank you! This is so wonderful.
The speakers were, in sequence: Karen Schiff (moderator), Tiffany Bell, Roger Cook, Suzanne Hudson, and Nancy Princenthal. I'll try to post the bios from the handout that was available at the event.
Fantastic discussion panel and audience questions. What a wonderful way to extend her work. The women were extremely courteous with the male panelist and some of his distasteful and outdated terminology
Please can you list the names of the speakers!!
1:07:25
But I will have to watch on my big computer I guess since it stalled about 1/8 of the way through. : (
The speaker who started at 11:14 seems very nervous.
I got bored in first 6 mins. BOO !