INDEPENDENT 20th CENTURY
Booth B1
Battery Maritime Building
10 South Street, New York
September 7-10, 2023
A solo presentation of the American painter, Alice Baber (1928-1982) will open at Independent 20th Century Art Fair, New York on September 7. Baber is best known for her life-long dedication to the study of biomorphic forms and the infinite possibilities of light and color through painting.
On the occasion of the art fair Luxembourg + Co. is publishing an accompanying monographic catalogue. Alice Baber: Color Hunger brings to light a new essay by curator and art writer Lydia Yee that chronicles Baber’s experimentation in different mediums, intensities of color, saturation, composition, and forms. It also provides examples of Baber’s unique method of ‘sinking’ (or ‘staining’) and ‘lifting’ tissue papers dipped in watercolour in order to obtain a sense of organic-like expansion in her shapes; an attribute that is now regarded as her signature style.