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Jo Baer

Jo Baer (Born 1929) is active/lives in New York, California / Holland, Ireland.  Jo Baer is known for Minimalist, non-objective painting, drawing.

Minimalist artist Jo Baer was born Josephine Gail Kleinberg in Seattle, Washington in 1929. She studied at the University of Washington, Seattle from 1946 to 1949, majoring in biology, while taking freshman art courses. She pursued studies in Gestalt psychology in New York City with the graduate faculty of the New School for Social Research from 1950 to 1953.

Initially an Abstract-Expressionist when that movement was at its height in the 1950s, Baer moved to geometric, hard-edged painting when that aesthetic surfaced in the 1960s, perhaps as a result of meeting minimalist artists Donald Judd and Dan Flavin in 1962. In the 1970s, her style changed back to an expressionist handling of animal and human forms.

She moved to Ireland in 1975, London in 1982 and Amsterdam in 1984, collaborating with English artist Bruce Robbins from 1978 to 1984.

Baer, in a 1983 article in "Art in America" essentially attacking abstraction, declared that she is "no longer an abstract arti   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3535 characters.]  Artist bio

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