PHILLIPS TO PRESENT ALICE BABER: SACRED SPACES, A LANDMARK SELLING EXHIBITION TRACING THE ARTIST’S VISION FROM 1959–1981
Presented in Partnership with Jody Klotz Fine Art
On view at Phillips New York from 6-26 March
Alice Baber
The Day the Jaguar Called the Wind (from Sacred Space Series), 1981
28 x 40 inches
NEW YORK – 9 FEBRUARY 2026 – PhillipsX is proud to announce Alice Baber: Sacred Spaces, a major selling exhibition dedicated to the pioneering American Abstract Expressionist and Color Field painter. Presented in partnership with Jody Klotz Fine Art, the exhibition will be on view at Phillips New York from 6-26 March, with a highlights preview open from 20-28 February. Featuring nearly 30 works spanning 1959 to 1981, the exhibition offers the most comprehensive market-facing presentation of Baber’s artistic evolution to date, coinciding with the publication of Gail Levin’s groundbreaking new biography, Alice Baber: An Artist’s Triumph Over Tragedy.
Covering more than two decades of Baber’s career, Alice Baber: Sacred Spaces presents exceptional examples of the artist’s early and mature styles, underscoring the full arc of her development before her life was tragically cut short at age 54 in 1982. The show includes rare early watercolors and oils from the early 1960s, seldom seen in the market and crucial to understanding Baber’s stylistic transformation. Collectors will also have the opportunity to see works such as the 1965 oil painting Bright Safe and the 1965 watercolor Yellow and Red Support, which closely relate to her major painting Noble Numbers (1964–65) in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Important early highlights from her career can also be seen, including Piper’s Message and Where They Meet, rarely exhibited and newly contextualized within Baber’s broader practice.
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