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11/9/2002

Jo Baer

Dia Art Foundation, New York

"THE MINIMALIST YEARS, 1960-1975"

"The Minimalist Years, 1960-1975," an exhibition of works by American artist Jo Baer, brings together some twenty paintings and a number of drawings and prints produced in the years she lived in New York City. The exhibition, Baer's first solo museum exhibition in the United States since 1975, will be on view from September 12, 2002, to June 15, 2003. A reception will be held on September 10 from 6 to 8 pm.

The exhibition includes a number of Baer's early works, which address the relations of pictorial edge and field and of color and composition, plus more eccentric works from the mid-seventies, which explore questions of flatness versus volume, frontality versus multiple vantage points, and objecthood versus illusion.

Baer has characterized her paintings of the 1960s and early 1970s as hard-edge and concerned greatly with color. However, as critic Lucy Lippard noted about her work in 1966, "the mood is more romantic than factual." In some works a square white expanse in the central area of the painting is framed by a thin band of color-for example, turquoise, lavender, blue, mustard-reiterated with black. The strip of color serves to mediate the dichotomy of black and white and animate the relationship of field and frames. Often, Baer's use of paint is not contained by the frontal boundaries of the canvas. In some works, stripes, bars, and arcs of paint cling to the sides or top of the canvas, breaking with the frontality conventional to modular painting, to explore multiple vantage points and to flirt with situation and context.



In the pictures: 'Graph Paintings', 1963.

Jo Baer
Born in Seattle, Washington, in 1929, Baer attended the University of Washington and later the New School for Social Research, where she studied perceptual psychology and philosophy. Baer's early works established her solid reputation as an important force in Minimalist art. Following her first solo show in 1966, she participated in Documenta IV in Kassel, Germany (1968), was awarded an artist fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1969), and was the subject of a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York (1975). In 1978 and again in 1986, Baer had retrospectives at the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, followed in 1999 by a major retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Public Programming
Critic and curator Mark Godfrey will lecture on Jo Baer's art this season as part of Dia's Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art. The lecture will take place at Dia's exhibition facility at 548 West 22nd Street on Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 6:30 pm. For more information the public should call Dia at 212 989 5566.

Exhibition Support
Support for this exhibition has been provided by Lannan Foundation, The Richard Florsheim Art Fund, and the members of the Dia Art Council.

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STEINA AND WOODY VASULKA SCREENING

Dia presents an open-air screening of works by Steina and Woody Vasulka, whose explorations of multifaceted, processed video imagery have made them major figures in the history and technique of video art. The screening will take place on Dia's rooftop, in Dan Graham's Rooftop Urban Park Project of 1991.

Steina and Woody Vasulka's early collaborative works, from the 1970s, explore the mechanics and materiality of the electronic signal. These explorations and the artists backgrounds- Steina trained as a violinist, Woody worked as an engineer and filmmaker-led them to develop electronic tools, for use by video artists, that manipulate image, sound, space and time.

WHEN
Thursday, September 12, 2002, 8 pm

ADMISSION Free

WHO
Steina and Woody Vasulka emigrated to the United States in 1965, and began collaborating in 1969. They co-founded The Kitchen, an alternative performance and exhibition space in New York City, and have taught at the Center for Media Study at the State University of New York, Buffalo. The Vasulkas have received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and have exhibited internationally at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (1996); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (1992); and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1985). Though they continue to collaborate on occasion, the majority of their work since 1975 has been produced individually. Steina and Woody Vasulka currently live and work in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

DIA
Dia Art Foundation-of which Dia Center for the Arts is a part- was founded in 1974. Dia plays a vital role among visual arts institutions nationally and internationally by initiating, supporting, presenting, and preserving art projects, and by serving as a primary locus for interdisciplinary art and criticism. In addition to presenting exhibitions and public programming at Dia Center for the Arts, Dia maintains long-term, site-specific projects in the western United States, in New York City, and on Long Island. In May 2003, Dia will open Dia:Beacon, a new museum in Beacon, New York, to house its renowned collection of American and European art of the 1960s and 1970s.

Dia Art Foundation
Dia Art Foundation-of which Dia Center for the Arts is a part-was founded in 1974. Dia plays a vital role among visual arts institutions nationally and internationally by initiating, supporting, presenting, and preserving art projects, and by serving as a primary locus for interdisciplinary art and criticism. In addition to presenting exhibitions and public programming at Dia Center for the Arts Dia maintains long-term, site-specific projects in the western United States, in New York City, and on Long Island. In May 2003, Dia will open Dia:Beacon, a new museum in Beacon, New York, to house its renowned collection of American and European art of the 1960s and 1970s.

Dia Center for the Arts, 548 West 22nd Street (between 10th and 11th avenues), New York City

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