ITEM #021
Red Red #2
Paul Baron
2011, 11 3/8"x17" framed
archival pigment print
Value: $2600
Minimum bid: $1000
Born in 1946, Paul Baron received his BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1969 and his MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop, SUNY Buffalo in 1972. His works are in the permanent collections of La Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, The George Eastman House and the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, the Bank of America Photography Collection (formally the LaSalle Bank Photography Collection), Chicago, and the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA. His pictures come from things we pass by every day but go unseen. He finds them by the highway – signs, buildings, vegetation, and even the road itself. He celebrates these overlooked spaces and makes them his own by a method of precision-seeing that transforms the familiar into a quiet, concentrated space of balance and order. He currently lives and photographs in Massachusetts.