Agnes Martin

 As one of the few prominent female artists of the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as a pioneer of abstract expressionism, Agnes Martin (1912-2004) focused on the emotive and expressive power of art, revealing beauty, innocence and happiness.

Martin's retrospective is presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the only West Coast venue in the United States, and the first and most comprehensive of the artist's work since 1992. 


The exhibit traces Martin's half century career from the 1950s biomorphic abstraction to the 1960s groundbreaking, six-foot-square grids of striped canvas that became her hallmark. 

Her distinctive artwork shows influences of Cubism and is often inspired by desert landscapes, Native American textiles, and her familiarity of South Asian philosophy.

Featured are nearly 100 objects including oil and acrylic paintings, multimedia pieces, watercolors and drawings, a print portfolio, and two sculptural works.

The landmark show begun in 2015 at the Tate Modern in London and then traveled to the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum Düsseldorf.

After LACMA the exhibit will conclude at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, in 2017.

The exhibit runs from April 24, 2016, through September 11, 2016, at BCAM, Level 3, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036. For more information call (323) 857-6000 or visit http://www.lacma.org/