Agnes Martin: The Distillation of Color Books “Though life-affirmative

“Though life-affirmative

Published to accompany the 2015 exhibition Tara Donovan at Pace Gallery in New York

in which she has turned from an “overdose” of chromatic intensity toward what she describes as a “detox of color

as well as a powerful meditation on the art of life-writing

among them Castle Back Flyer (2021) and Red River Storm (2023)

Agnes Martin: The Distillation of Color Books “Though life-affirmativeProduced in conjunction with the exhibition Agnes Martin: The Distillation of Color, this book brings new voices to the scholarship around Martins work. In a personal introduction, Pace President and CEO Marc Glimcher reflects on his time with the artist at her home in New Mexico. Lively essays by Durga Chew Bose, Bruce Hainley, and Olivia Laing explore themes of color and solitude. Martins own contemplative writings and an illustrated chronology of