Helen Marden

ABOUT

Helen Marden is an American artist, who lives and works between New York, Tivoli and Marrakech.

Her paintings feature a vivid palette informed by her travels to Greece, India, and Morocco. Using resin to bind color-saturated acrylics and raw powdered pigments with found objects such as shells, feathers, and sea glass, she invests the aesthetics and techniques of expressive abstraction with renewed variety and purpose. In both inspiration and her chosen mediums, her paintings are rooted in the natural world while offering a connection to the spiritual realm through conviction and intuition.

Art Rug Projects by Soutzoglou invites Helen Marden, especially for the exhibition The Warp Of Time at the Old Carpet Factory in Hydra, Greece, to experiment for the first time with the carpet as a medium. Her intuitive watercolors inspired by the memories of Hydra Island are translated into the hand-made carpets by Soutzoglou expert artisans. This unique collaboration bridges the gap between past and present, combining traditional craftsmanship with contemporary artistic vision.

BIO

Helen Marden [b. 1941, Pittsburgh, USA] lives and works in New York, Tivoli and Marrakech. She graduated with a BFA in art from Pennsylvania State University in 1963. In the early 1980s, Marden undertook painting in earnest, maintaining studios in New York and Hydra, Greece.  Her work is represented in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and her latest exhibition in Athens, Agape/Αγάπη, took place in Gagosian, Athens [2023]. The artist is represented by Gagosian Gallery.

She took part in group exhibitions including Who Chooses Who at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York [1994]; Selections Summer ’96 at the Drawing Center, New York [1996]; and Couples Discourse [2006] and Uncanny Congruences [2013] at the Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University. She also participated in the Whitney Biennial, New York [1995] and The Last Brucennial, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York [2014].