Open 10:30–5:00, Tuesday – Saturday
Join us on Saturday 29th April for the opening talk of our exhibition; Coming Home Late: Jo Baer In the Land of the Giants
Janine Armin, Guest Curator, and Phd Scholar in conversation with Malin Persson, painter, and Painting Assistant to Jo Baer
Gallery Talk, 3.30pm (gallery open from 3pm)
Join is for an informal discussion within Jo Baer’s exhibition Coming Home Late: Jo Baer In the Land of the Giants , the survey of renowned Amsterdam-based artist Jo Baer’s late work that stems from her Ireland-initiated painting series In the Land of the Giants (2009–13).
With this celebratory homecoming, the six paintings are shown, as well as two additional 2020 works, supported by an extensive selection of ephemera detailing the artist’s rich, archaeologically driven research alongside audio-visual material.
The exhibition opens on Saturday 29th April and continues until Saturday 17 June 2023.
Booking is advised due to limited numbers.
About Jo Baer:
American artist Jo Baer (b.1929) arrived in Ireland in 1975 where she became chatelaine of the unheated 37-room Smarmore Castle in County Louth. Until her departure in 1982, she furthered her move away from the abstraction for which she was so well known and towards the complex transhistorical stories that needed telling through realistic painting. Yet whether dealing in line or figure, Baer’s work continued to identify the source of the borders we create so that we might undo them, and to value the peripheries from which we come. A Neolithic Hurlstone on the castle demesne ‘thrown there by giants’ according to locals, became the departure point for her painting series In the Land of the Giants completed several decades later (2009–13) that explores rich intercultural connections.
Coming Home Late: Jo Baer In the Land of the Giants
29 April – 17 June, 2023
Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda
24 August 2023 – 21 January 2024
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
