Jo Baer, ​​from minimum abstraction to radical figuration

Alongside Donald Judd, Dan Flavin and Sol Lewitt, she made the heyday of the minimum American abstraction. But the harshness of the New York market in the 1960s and 1970s, little inclined to support women, pushed her to leave the United States definitively for Europe. During her 95 years of life, Jo Baer was not afraid of the big gap and going against what was expected of her, to defend what she called the “radical figuration”. Born in Seattle in 1929, the one who studied biology, the…