IN THE SPOTLIGHT
ALICE BABER
Alice Baber
ARTVISOR LONDON
Alice Baber
Artissima, celebrated for championing both emerging and historical voices in contemporary art, provides a fitting platform for this celebration of Baber’s enduring influence. Visitors can experience Ronchini Gallery’s tribute to her remarkable journey, where Baber’s language of color comes alive, resonating across decades and genres. By Kitty Atherton
Blanche Lazzell Carved a Path for American Abstraction—Then Faded From View
Lazzell only made a few works experimenting with batik that were “hidden away for decades,” he added. “This work was acquired directly from her family’s estate about 20 years ago, and we acquired it from that collector.”
It’s shown alongside works by artists who have recently seen a surge in market prices like Lynne Drexler (1928–1999) and Alice Baber (1928–1982), as well as artists just beginning to enjoy renewed attention like Mary Abbott (1921–2019).
GAZELLI ART HOUSE
Gazelli Art House proudly presents a thoughtfully curated group exhibition highlighting historically significant British and American artists from two pivotal post-war movements: Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. With a particular emphasis on pioneering female voices, the presentation features influential figures including Alice Baber, Derek Boshier, Pauline Boty, Harold Cohen, and Jann Haworth.
5 - 7 September 2025
ALICE BABER AN ARTIST’S TRIUMPH OVER TRAGEDY BY GAIL LEVIN
ABOUT THE BOOK
The definitive biography of abstract artist Alice Baber, whose luminous and beloved works took the world by storm.
From one of the most acclaimed art biographers writing today comes the surprising life of Alice Baber, who produced exquisite abstract paintings of vibrantly colored shapes that created an illusion of floating light. Heralded as an “artist of lyrical abstractions,” Baber’s paintings had already entered the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan, the Guggenheim, and the Whitney at the time of her premature death at just fifty-four. How could such an accomplished and visionary artist then fall into near obscurity?
In Alice Baber, Baber's fascinaitng story is finally revealed, despite efforts to consign her to oblivion by her competitive ex-husband, his surviving widow, and by major male art historians and curators who conspired to promote his art and at her expense. Her ex-husband’s widow sold the late Baber’s work to a gallery only if it agreed not to give her a show.
Alice Baber is a vital corrective to the history of American art and a thrilling opportunity for the next generation experience Baber anew. Vividly written and richly detailed, we journey through her rural upbringing as a childhood prodigy to her years exhibiting around the world and experience the heady mid-century art world in all it’s glory.
Levin’s dynamic prose brings to life this synesthetic artist who links color to both movement and sound. We witness Baber's talent and ambition, her tenacity, charm, and her generosity of spirit. Her early feminist activism and her work as a curator helped other artists, and her deep connection to literature and poetry. Alice Baber: An Artist's Triumph Over Tragedy is an insightful and stunning portrait that resurrects a central figure in modern art.
About the Author
Gail Levin is the author of Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography, Becoming Judy Chicago, Lee Krasner: A Biography and many other books on twentieth-century and contemporary art. She is Distinguished Professor of Art History, American Studies, and Women's Studies at the Graduate Center and Baruch College of the City University of New York.
Publisher: Pegasus Books (February 3, 2026)
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
Length: 448 pages
ISBN13: 9798897100408
The Book will be released on February 3, 2026
GENE DAVIS
Gene Davis
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
Moments in Modernism
Moments in Modernism highlights the diversity and high quality of the AGO’s modern art collection, which has been built over time by generations of museum curators and patrons.
This installation will show collection strengths from artistic movements such as Pop Art, Abstraction, Realism, and Minimalism. An international approach in artistic styles will be presented, including a body of work from the AGO holdings by Brazilian artists, recognizing the global nature of modernism. A selection of contemporary works that respond to modernist movements will also be shown.
Many of the artists, including Andy Warhol, Helen Frankenthaler, Jules Olitski, Gerhard Richter, and Mark Rothko are well known while others are still yet to be broadly recognized such as Tomie Ohtake, Rubem Valentim, Gene Davis and Kazuo Nakamura. A particular focus will be Canadian artists including Alex Colville, Rita Letendre, Jack Bush, Agnes Martin, Guido Molinari and Norval Morrisseau.
June 14, 2024 - September 1, 2025
JON SCHUELER
Jon Schueler
GLOBE NEWSWIRE
Superman Star David Corenswet Executive Produces Documentary About Art World's Unlikely Guardian
"Woman in the Sky" Makes its World Premiere at Academy Award-Qualifying Festival this August.
The documentary Woman in the Sky, executive produced and shot by David Corenswet, star of SUPERMAN, will have its world premiere at the 2025 Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, on Thursday, August 7th. The film tells the extraordinary story of Magda Salvesen, who met Abstract Expressionist Jon Schueler in Scotland when she was 26 and he was 54. A few months later he wrote a will leaving her the entire body of his work. Since Schueler’s death in 1992, Salvesen has donned the mantle and secured his legacy, ensuring its preservation.
WOMAN IN THE SKY
Magda Salvesen was 26 and working at the Scottish Arts Council when she met 54-year-old American abstract expressionist Jon Schueler in 1970. A few months later he wrote a will leaving her the ENTIRE body of his work.
Director
Max Woertendyke
Cast
Magda Salvesen
Producer
Julia Best Warner
Viewing
Thursday Aug. 7 2025
Rhode Island International Film Festival
SOROKIN GALLERY
Jon Schueler
St. Nazaire: Sky Red Blues
oil on canvas
New York, November 1982
70 x 63 in/177.8 x 160.02 cm
o/c 1276
Upcoming Solo Exhibition
Sept.18 to October 29, 2025
ART AT KIRKCALDY GALLERIES
Collecting the Contemporary: Scottish Art at Kirkcaldy Galleries
This display features works by modern and contemporary painters who were inspired by Scotland. In addition to works by John Bellany, Ken Currie, Callum Innes and Jon Schueler,
31 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2027
WOMAN IN THE SKY
Magda Salvesen lives amongst thousands of her late husband's paintings. Her loft -- the same one she and Jon shared as a couple -- remains both her home and the site of the recently formed Jon Schueler Foundation, a living museum dedicated to preserving Jon's legacy. Every wall is hung with Schuelers -- they surround Magda's life, and make it up. A celebrated garden and art historian in her own right, Magda has nonetheless dedicated her life to these paintings.
Director Biography - Max Woertendyke