Brice Marden – Etching for Obama from the Artist for Obama Portfolio, 2008 – Etching

Color hardground etching on Somerset Velvet White paper.

'Etching for Obama from the Artist for Obama Portfolio' by Brice Marden is an etching produced in 2008, hand-signed and numbered from a limited edition. The plate is filled edge to edge with dense, overlapping black lines — looping, crossing, and recurving at varying angles — leaving only irregular pinpricks of white paper visible beneath. The mark-making reads as energetic and accumulative rather than gestural in the expressionist sense: each line belongs to a continuous web rather than a single decisive stroke. Marden, who spent the 1960s and 1970s building monochromatic surfaces through layered oil and beeswax, shifted in later decades toward complex, calligraphic line structures, and this etching extends that trajectory into the print medium. Created for the 'Artists for Obama' portfolio during the 2008 US presidential campaign, it channels Marden's commitment to abstraction as a serious pictorial language.

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Brice Marden (USA, 1938–2023) was a celebrated painter known for his minimalist canvases and later gestural, calligraphic abstractions. His work bridged Western modernism and Eastern aesthetics, often using nuanced color palettes and meditative linework. Marden’s evolution of style made him a key figure in contemporary art for over five decades.
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Color hardground etching on Somerset Velvet White paper.

'Etching for Obama from the Artist for Obama Portfolio' by Brice Marden is an etching produced in 2008, hand-signed and numbered from a limited edition. The plate is filled edge to edge with dense, overlapping black lines — looping, crossing, and recurving at varying angles — leaving only irregular pinpricks of white paper visible beneath. The mark-making reads as energetic and accumulative rather than gestural in the expressionist sense: each line belongs to a continuous web rather than a single decisive stroke. Marden, who spent the 1960s and 1970s building monochromatic surfaces through layered oil and beeswax, shifted in later decades toward complex, calligraphic line structures, and this etching extends that trajectory into the print medium. Created for the 'Artists for Obama' portfolio during the 2008 US presidential campaign, it channels Marden's commitment to abstraction as a serious pictorial language.

Artwork Copyright © Brice Marden
Brice Marden (USA, 1938–2023) was a celebrated painter known for his minimalist canvases and later gestural, calligraphic abstractions. His work bridged Western modernism and Eastern aesthetics, often using nuanced color palettes and meditative linework. Marden’s evolution of style made him a key figure in contemporary art for over five decades.
Artwork Copyright © Brice Marden
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Brice Marden – Etching for Obama from the Artist for Obama Portfolio, 2008 – Etching

Brice Marden

Etching for Obama from the Artist for Obama Portfolio, 2008

35.56 x 30.48 cm

Est. 2005 — twenty years of collecting, online.