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26/1/2005

Hannelore Baron

Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York

Solo show

Senior & Shopmaker Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of collages and box constructions by Hannelore Baron (1926-1987). Using found boxes, many with hinged lids, Hannelore Baron's sculptures open and close like books. Within each are assemblages of found artifacts - pieces of wood, string, cloth, and paper - painted with rudimentary figures or scribbled with the artist's own cryptic calligraphic imagery.

Equally at ease working in two dimensions, Baron's intimately scaled collages offer discrete worlds filled with quiet energy and visionary power. Of her work, Baron stated, "The materials I use in box constructions and collages are gathered with great care. The reason I use old cloth and boxes is that new material lacks the sentiment of the old, and seems too dry in an emotional sense."

As an avid reader of archeology and anthropology, Baron studied ceremonies that marked the passages of life and death. By addressing these issues, Baron's art contains its own ritual element. Like the German artist, Joseph Beuys, her work imagines an ideal primitive state, with its own language, customs, forms, and message.

Hannelore Baron's work was the subject of a one-person exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in 1989 and more recently, of a traveling retrospective exhibition Hannelore Baron: Works from 1969-1987 organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibitions Service in 2001 and curated by Ingrid Shaffner. Her work is currently featured in Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions at the National Gallery, Washington, DC.

Image: Untitled (B86 047), 1986, Wood, cloth, wire.

SENIOR & SHOPMAKER GALLERY - 21 East 26th Street - New York
Gallery hours are Tuesday-Friday 10 to 6; Saturday 11 to 6

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