Leslie Feely Gallery and Jody Klotz Fine Art are pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Alice Baber. Located at 1044 Madison Avenue on New York's Upper East Side. Envisioning the need for a reappraisal of this important artist’s work, the exhibition highlights the range of Baber’s unique painterly language that has earned her a place in the permanent collections of museums worldwide.

Alice was born in 1928 in rural Illinois and grew up spending winters with her family in Miami, Florida. After receiving a mid-western education Baber moved to New York City in 1951 and met many of the abstract expressionists at the famed Cedar Bar. During 1959-1968 she would spend half the year in Paris and the other half in New York – all the while exhibiting her works extensively in Europe and in Asia. By the 1970s, Baber toured for the U.S. government traveling the world and sharing her art across Latin America. She is said to have been always imaginative which is not only evident in her unique painterly language but also her poetry and prose. Baber’s published writings include essays on color from the 1970s and text on Sonia Delaunay, whom she met during her time in Paris. Baber was often featured in the New York Times and in major art publications. On December 29, 1978, the New York Times described her as “A prominent colorist since the early 60s, Alice Baber has charted a course somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting.” She created her lyrical compositions of buoyant forms with an innovative technique involving thinned oil paint application which she called “sinking and lifting” which reveals the glow and inner light of colors. Baber’s life and art are the subject of a forthcoming biography by Gail Levin, distinguished Professor at the City University of New York, and author of biographies of other artistic luminaries including Lee Krasner, Judy Chicago, and Edward Hopper.