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Artforum Review 112 Workshop
Art Forum Summer 1980 VOL. 18, NO. 10 Exhibition at 112 Workshop New York By JEANNE SILVERTHORNE Established in the ’60s and ’70s as a Minimalist of great formal rigor, Jo Baer has gone from hard-edged to organic, from contained and carefully graduated color to scumbled hue, from four-inch thick stretchers to unstretched canvas hung from
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A Critical Essay by Marianna Theresa Kennedy
Extracted from a paper published in MAY 1982 – THE FACULTY OF HISTORY OF ART AND DESIGN, DEPARTMENT OF PRINTMAKING, DUBLIN Introduction …. For the last four years, Baer has collaborated with British artist Bruce Robbins (they live and work in Ardee) on large canvases and a series of drawings using figurative imagery exclusively. The
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Beyond The Pale
‘Beyond the Pale’. by Bruce Robbins and Jo Baer, Real Life Magazine, NY, First Published Summer, 1982 Jo Baer and Bruce Robbins started working together in 1978. Before this (in 1975 and 1976 respectively), they had changed the formal content of the work that they were previously associated with (Minimalism from the early Sixties in
