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    Highlights Preview
    20 - 28 February 2026
    Monday-Saturday, 10am - 6pm

    Selling Exhibition
    6 - 26 March 2026
    Monday-Saturday, 10am - 6pm

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Exhibition Highlights



Alice Baber: Sacred Spaces presents a landmark selling exhibition dedicated to one of the most distinctive voices of postwar American abstraction. Spanning more than two decades of the artist’s career, the exhibition brings together nearly thirty works that illuminates Alice Baber’s (1928–1982) evolution from early gestural experimentation to the radiant, immersive compositions of her later years.

ALICE BABER The Day the Jaguar Called the Wind (from Sacred Space Series), 1981 

Baber’s paintings transform color into structure and sensation. Through layered transparencies and fluid movement, she conceived the canvas as a site of energy and contemplation — what she described as a “sacred space.” Her work moves between Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting while maintaining a deeply personal visual language centered on light, harmony, and emotional presence.

ALICE BABER Axe in the Grove, 1966 



Though represented in major museum collections worldwide, Baber’s achievement has only recently begun to receive sustained scholarly and market recognition. Coinciding with Gail Levin’s authoritative new biography Alice Baber: An Artist’s Triumph Over Tragedy and concurrent institutional presentations, this exhibition marks a pivotal moment in the reassessment of Baber’s legacy, offering a rare opportunity to engage with works spanning the full breadth of her artistic vision.

ALICE BABER Golden Center, New York, 1972

About Jody Klotz Fine Art
Jody Klotz Fine Art, established 1980, with international roots of Paris and New York at its heart, is a destination gallery in Abilene, Texas. With a program that includes prestigious art fairs and groundbreaking exhibitions including on Lynne Drexler and Alice Baber, the gallery focuses on Post War Abstract Expressionist and Color Field paintings with an emphasis on women artists. The gallery’s impressive inventory of Impressionist, Modern and Post War art is a rich resource for collectors and institutions.

ALICE BABER Bright Safe, 1965




“Then there is pink—how difficult to control! A great deal of white must be placed in sticky gobs on the palette, odd cadmium red light—still dull—add alizarin—still uninspired. Shall one use rose madder guaranteed to fade by Windsor Newton himself? Or throw it out and use a nice pink acrylic—it shall be found! Pink is light, pink is the shadow of sunset. Made very fine with turpentine and no white; it is the color of India, paladins embroidered in gold. Pink is all form and body but I prefer not to use it erotically, because it so naturally belongs there, but rather as the esoteric, the transcendent transition.” - Alice Baber

ALICE BABER Where They Meet, 1963

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