ART–SYS–BAE

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Material Intelligence

Border as light

ART–SYS–BAE

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Border as light

ART–SYS–BAE

Border as light

Index Code:

ART–SYS–BAE

Orgin:

Seattle, USA / New York, USA / Amsterdam, Netherlands

Field Notes:

border as light · edge as structure · perception as space

Defining Moment:

Early 1960s — border as threshold; order clarified

Jo Baer

(

b. 1929

)

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Baer built a world of edges.

Her color-banded canvases transform the frame into field — perception concentrated at the margin.

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In her world, limit becomes revelation.

Structural Focus

Boundary as Event

Edges, margins, thresholds, or limits carry meaning. Structure concentrates where form nearly disappears.

In Jo Baer’s work, this approach appears where structure concentrates at the edge rather than the center.

Position

Boundary as Event

Edges, margins, thresholds, or limits carry meaning. Structure concentrates where form nearly disappears.

In Jo Baer’s work, this approach appears where structure concentrates at the edge rather than the center.

Chromatic Fields

Color fields operate as spatial and structural organizers.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Reduction clarifies form through repetition, scale, and restraint.

Post-Minimalism

Minimal systems loosen through process, material, and contingency.

Observartory

Jo Baer — Minimalist Borders

Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

Color as structure

In Dialogue

Paint as presence

Repetition as calm