Jo Baer
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Jo Baer (born 1929) is an American artist identified as a pioneer in minimalist art. Her minimalist work consists of a reductive hard edged style which encompass a series of large squares, small squares, and vertical and horizontal rectangles with fully enclosing borders. Baer began to expand her palette by painting flanking and stacked diptych and triptych groupings and working with wraparound paintings with diagonal and curved forms. Her early work is informed by an admiration of the Abstract Expressionists, including Gorky, Motherwell, and Rothko--a movement she later rejected in favor of a painterly hard-edge. Her later works speak to her own refutation of minimalism as a vessel for the death of painting in favor of object-making. In 1975, at the height of her career and on the heels of a major retrospective of her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, she left behind the pressures of the New York art market and shifted from abstraction to a more representational style rooted in metaphoric imagery. Her work is on view in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Tate Modern, London; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Seattle Art Museum.
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