AGNES MARTIN'S NIGHT SEA

Agnes Martin's Night Sea is a large canvas of hand-drawn rectangular grids painted in luminous blue and gold. In this illustrated st udy, Suzanne Hudson presents the painting as the work of an artist who was also a thinker, poet, and writer for whom self-presentati on was a necessary part of making her works public. With Night Sea, Hudson argues, Martin created a shimmering realization of contr ol and loss that stands alone within her suite of classic grid paintings as an exemplary and exceptional achievement.