![]() ![]() Bougatsos compares her experience of the artist’s canvases to how she feels in desert settings, saying of Martin’s paintings, “You just settle into the environment and it’s this completeness. Laraaji, who has termed his own musical works “sound paintings” for their layered and textural qualities, said he identifies with a “a stillness, a non-rushed activity” present in Martin’s paintings, adding that he strives to create “an environment within which the listener can be present, immersive, without really figuring out what it is I’m trying to say, more they’re feeling embraced” in his own work.īougatsos and DeGraw trace a similar contemplativeness through Martin’s paintings and their music. These spiritual, introspective aspects of Martin’s process live on in her canvases. The performances highlighted the ways that the legacies of Martin’s distinct visual language and philosophies about art making have touched some of the most innovative musical artists working today.Īs the art historian Nancy Princenthal details in her 2015 biography of Martin, the artist “said she composed her work following the dictates of inner visions, which arrived as complete images she executed just as she saw them, but bigger.” Princenthal goes on to write, “In many accounts she gave of her working process, Martin invariably used the word ‘inspiration.’” The meditative nature of the concerts reflected not only the formal simplicity and calmness of Martin’s work, but also the artist’s stated approach to art making. Laraaji has been creating highly experimental music since the 1970s, Lizzi Bougatsos and Brian DeGraw, two members of Gang Gang Dance, draw on various genres to create their unique, immersive sounds. To engage with the notion of musicality in the artist’s work, Pace Live presented performances by the musician Laraaji and members of the group Gang Gang Dance amid the recent exhibition Agnes Martin: The Distillation of Color in New York. I think that since the Abstract Expressionists, painting is in the same category as music. Martin, who throughout her career wrote at length on modes of thought that ought to guide artistic practices, said in a 1976 ARTnews profile by the critic John Gruen, “Painting is a very subtle medium, and it speaks of the most subtle phases of our responses, and so, it is much more rewarding to the painter. “Paintings painted by the intellect are not artwork,” the artist once said. ![]() ![]() Best known for understated, austere compositions that privilege lines and grids, geometry and order, Martin rejected figurative and narrative elements in her works. Widely considered one of the most important painters of the 20th century, Agnes Martin looms large in the history of art and the Minimalist movement. ![]()
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