Bio

Helen Marden was born in 1941 in Pittsburgh and lives and works in New York and Marrakech, Morocco. Group exhibitions include Who Chooses Who, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1994); Selections Summer ’96, Drawing Center, New York (1996); Couples Discourse (2006) and Uncanny Congruences (2013), Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. She participated in the Whitney Biennial, New York (1995) and The Last Brucennial, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York (2014).

Marden’s compositions combine vivid color with gesture in a joyful affirmation of life’s energies. Using resin to bind neon bright acrylics and raw powdered pigments with natural substances and found objects, she invests the aesthetics and techniques of expressive abstraction with renewed variety and purpose. Her work suggests a hard-won wisdom and anticipates collective emergence from a profoundly challenging time for the planet. In works of endearing and unrestrained vitality, Marden offers an optimistic vision of a world in which environmental forces and human culture might be reconciled and reunited.