May 7 - August 15, 2024
From Jody Klotz:
“Jody Klotz is pleased to present Alice Baber: Colors of the Rainbow. This is the gallery’s first solo exhibition of the paintings of Alice Baber (1928-1982). The exhibition at Jody Klotz Fine Art features oil paintings and works on paper dating from 1960 to 1981 offering an expansive view of her stylistic evolution and exciting use of color and form. The show highlights the range of Baber’s abstract images, which earned her a place in the permanent collections of dozens of museums, both in the United States and abroad. In New York City alone, Baber’s paintings are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Although Baber’s early death in 1982 at only fifty-four allowed her work to be eclipsed, the market has begun to respond energetically to her elegant and beautiful paintings. Her distinctive abstract visual language has been rediscovered, too, on the internet, where the power of her invention has been recognized by an increasing number of fans.
In the gallery’s comprehensive and fully illustrated catalogue for Alice Baber: Colors of the Rainbow, Dr. Gail Levin, art historian and biographer, has written an essay that introduces Baber, tracing her development from obscure midwestern roots to her emergence as a player in the art scenes of both New York and Paris. Levin comments about “Exhilaratingly original abstract art by the talented Alice Baber, whose brief life was extinguished much too soon. She remains to teach us all about ambition, determination, dedication, passion, and vision. She managed to write, curate, and travel the world, all while producing an impressive and lasting body of original artwork.” Alice Baber: Colors of the Rainbow opens at Jody Klotz Fine Arts on May 7th at 5:30pm.”
Reception: May 7, 2024 | 5:30–7:30 pm
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