Over three decades, etching, lithography and screenprint flourished
along with the development of print studios such as Curwen Press, allowing artists to really
explore the
medium.
(born 1938, Bronxville, New York, USA) in his earliest mature works
explored a reductive strategy which seemed similar to that of Jasper Johns's and Ellsworth Kelly's contemporaneous works, yet more formalist: paintings such as Return 1 consist of subtly grey fields painted in encaustic (wax -
medium) with a narrow strip
along the bottom of the canvas where Marden left bare evidence of process (i.e., drips and spatters of paint).
It is installed in the second - floor galleries, across from and in dialogue with the current exhibition La Frontera: Encounters
Along the Border, which
explores the border as a complex landscape of human interaction through the
medium of contemporary jewelry.