Six decades of Brice Marden go on show at Gagosian New York
Six decades of paintings by Brice Marden have gone on show in one New York gallery.
The exhibition, titled 'Brice Marden: I Am Plane Image', opened at Gagosian's West 21st Street gallery in New York on 15 September and runs until 12 December 2026, according to the gallery's listing Gagosian. It arrived just days before 18 September. That gives visitors almost three months to catch it.
Gagosian describes the show as a comprehensive survey of Marden's paintings Ocula. In plain terms, a survey brings together work from different periods so you can follow how an artist changes. Here the show is organised across six decades Gagosian. That is a long stretch to cover in one building.
Two large public collections are part of the story. The gallery says the exhibition includes major institutional loans from the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York Gagosian. A loan means a work borrowed for the run of a show and returned afterwards. Museum loans matter because they let the public see familiar holdings outside their usual home, placed next to works from other collections.
Marden also has a busy history at auction. His works have been offered for sale 860 times over the past twenty-seven years, with a 74% sell-through rate, according to market data Heni. Sell-through rate is simply the share of lots offered that actually sell. In this case, roughly three in four works offered have found a buyer.
There is extra material for anyone who wants to look closer. The Fall 2026 issue of Gagosian Quarterly features a detail of The Propitious Garden of Plane Image, Second Version (2000–06) Gagosian. The date range attached to that painting, 2000 to 2006, points to the slow way some paintings develop. They can stay in the studio for years before they are finished.
What makes this stand out for a general visit is the simplicity of the offer. One painter. One space. Sixty years. You do not need any background in art history to follow it. Walk through at your own pace and watch how line, colour and shape shift from early work to late work.
