Brilliant Yellow #9

Jo BaerWW-1964-130806

1964·Oil on canvas·121.9 × 152.4 cm (48 × 60 in.)

<p>In the I960s Jo Baer emerged as a central figure in the community of Minimalist and Conceptual artists that included Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, and Sol Le Witt. Although Baer's work from this period relied on the simple geometric forms and serial imagery of these movements, her practice was distinguished by her unwavering commitment to the medium of paint on canvas. Baer was primarily interested in using painting as a vehicle for exploring visual perception. From 1963 to 1975 she limited her "imagery" to bands of black combined with colors only at the edges of her canvases in order to emphasize the essential, objectlike qualities of each painting's rectangular form.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1964
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 121.9 × 152.4 cm (48 × 60 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Jo Baer

Artist

Jo Baer

Painting

Josephine Gail Baer 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 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Seattle, WA, USA

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