ARTIST

Jo Baer

1929–2025 · United States

Minimalist who made edges shimmer, then shocked the art world by abandoning abstraction for 'radical figuration.'

ABOUT

Josephine Gail Baer (née Kleinberg; August 7, 1929 – January 21, 2025) was an American painter associated with minimalist art. She began exhibiting her work at the Fischbach Gallery, New York, and other venues for contemporary art in the mid-1960s. In the mid-1970s, she turned away from non-objective painting. After then, Baer fused images, symbols, words, and phrases in a non-narrative manner, a mode of expression she once termed "radical figuration." She lived and worked i…

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NOTABLE WORKS
Korean 1962 · Van Abbemuseum The Old Year 1974 Testament of the Powers That Be (Where Trees Turn to Sand, Residual Colours Stain the Lands 2001 Dusk (Bands and End-Points) 2012 Four Feet Square 1958 · Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Untitled (Korean) 1962 · Whitney Museum of American Art
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