Agnes Martin is perhaps most recognised for her evocative paintings marked out in subtle pencil lines and pale colour washes. Although restrained, her style was underpinned by her deep conviction in the emotive and expressive power of art. Martin believed that spiritual inspiration and not intellect created great work. âWithout awareness of beauty, innocence and happinessâ Martin wrote âone cannot make works of artâ.
This is the first retrospective of Martinâs work since 1994. Covering the full breadth of her practice, this extensive exhibition will reveal Martinâs early and little known experiments with different media and trace her development from biomorphic abstraction to the mesmerising grid and striped canvases that became her hallmark.