VIDEO | Alice Baber: Reverse Infinity Panel Discussion
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"Reverse Infinity" at Berry Campbell in New York marks the first major exhibition of works by Alice Baber in over 40 years.
by Katie White
Alice Baber lived, by her own account, as an artist out of sync with her times, navigating the downtown New York art scene of the 1950s and ‘60s as both insider and outsider. Her life, as she described it, existed in the “slightly uncomfortable feeling of not belonging to any place.”
A new exhibition at “Reverse Infinity” New York’s Berry Campbell aims to change that (through May 18). The exhibition is the first large-scale showing of Baber’s work in over 40 years and features a remarkable ensemble of the artist’s luminous, auric abstractions made in thin veils of radiant color. The paintings on view span from 1960 to 1982—these last works are intimate, elegant watercolors made just months before Baber’s untimely death from cancer at the age of 54. The Embarcation (1960), the earliest work in the show, meanwhile, is a stain-like almost botanical vision of purples and blues imbued with hazy atmospheric quality. Early canvases give way to more mature works, such as Blue Flotilla and Time of Day, both from 1966, platelet-like discs of colors, in deeper, often jewel-toned hues. These works can seem biomorphic or even vegetal—like looking at a plant very close up.
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Before my recent visit to “Alice Baber: Reverse Infinity” at the art gallery Berry Campbell, I saw work by the late artist on display at the auction house Sotheby’s. The always intriguing Berry Campbell, who show art in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood, call this new show the first exhibition at this scale showcasing Baber’s work in several decades, making “Reverse Infinity” an event and lending the exhibition an air of gravitas.
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