Jo Baer
- Introduction
- Josephine Gail Baer (born August 7, 1929) is 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. Since then, Baer has fused images, symbols, words, and phrases in a non-narrative manner, a mode of expression she once termed "radical figuration." She currently lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- Wikidata
- Q1689871
- Introduction
- Baer is considered a participant in the development of Minimalism, through work that adhered to a vocabulary of visual elements, in predominantly white paintings with bands of color highlighting their edges. Though her early work was nonobjective, after a 1975 retrospective at the Whitney Museum, Baer moved to Ireland and began work that illustrated her own concept of “radical figuration,” which included fragmentary images, some sourced from art history. She is also known as a writer who countered Donald Judd and Robert Morris's notion of Minimalism in published statements.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Female
- Roles
- Artist, Writer, Painter
- Names
- Jo Baer, Josephine Gail Kleinberg
- Ulan
- 500009657
Exhibitions
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413: Breaking the Mold
Oct 21, 2019–Sep 20, 2020
MoMA
Collection gallery
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206: Transfigurations
Oct 21, 2019–Sep 7, 2020
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction
Apr 15–Aug 13, 2017
MoMA
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From the Collection:
1960–1969 Mar 26, 2016–Mar 19, 2017
MoMA
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Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Apr 22, 2009–Jan 4, 2010
MoMA
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Jo Baer has
14 exhibitionsonline.
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Jo Baer Bootless Boots 1960
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Jo Baer Glass Slippers 1960
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Jo Baer Sex Symbol 1961
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Jo Baer Rook 1962
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Jo Baer Float 1962
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Jo Baer Juvenile Sex Symbol 1 1963
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Jo Baer Juvenile Sex Symbol 2 1963
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Jo Baer Juvenile Sex Symbol 3 1963
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Jo Baer Juvenile Sex Symbol 4 1963
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Jo Baer Juvenile Sex Symbol 5 1963
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Jo Baer Untitled 1963
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Jo Baer Primary Light Group: Red, Green, Blue 1964-65
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Jo Baer Yellow - Sombre 1965
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Jo Baer Replica: White Horizontal (yellow line) 1965
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Jo Baer Double-Bar, Grey (Green Line) 1968
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Jo Baer Cardinations 1974
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Jo Baer Untitled from Cardinations 1974
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Jo Baer Untitled from Cardinations 1974
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Jo Baer Untitled from Cardinations 1974
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Jo Baer Untitled from Cardinations 1974
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Jo Baer Untitled from Cardinations 1974
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Jo Baer Untitled from Cardinations 1974
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Jo Baer Untitled from Cardinations 1974
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Jo Baer Untitled from Cardinations 1974
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Jo Baer Untitled from Cardinations 1974
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Jo Baer Memorial for an Art World Body (Nevermore) 2009
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Jo Baer Study for Memorial for an Art World Body (Nevermore) 2009
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Jo Baer Study for Memorial for an Art World Body (Nevermore) 2009
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Jo Baer Study for Memorial for an Art World Body (Nevermore) 2009
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Jo Baer Study for Memorial for an Art World Body (Nevermore) 2009
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Jo Baer Study for Memorial for an Art World Body (Nevermore) 2009
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Jo Baer Study for Memorial for an Art World Body (Nevermore) 2009
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Jo Baer Study for Memorial for an Art World Body (Nevermore) 2009
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Jo Baer Study for Memorial for an Art World Body (Nevermore) 2009
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Jo Baer Study for Memorial for an Art World Body (Nevermore) 2009
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