
Pattern Recognition No. 16
2017
Pattern Recognition No. 16 presents a commanding square canvas in which Edith Baumann pursues her sustained investigation into the threshold between order and visual noise. Completed in 2017, the work belongs to a series that treats geometric abstraction as an epistemological question, asking how the eye assembles meaning from repeated form. Executed in acrylic on canvas at a substantial 175.3 × 175.3 cm, the painting rewards extended viewing, as passages that initially read as flat decoration gradually reveal layered decisions about color saturation, edge quality, and rhythmic variation. The square format is not incidental. It establishes a kind of self-contained logic, refusing the horizontal sweep of landscape convention and instead turning the viewer's attention inward toward the work's own organizing principles. Baumann's practice situates her within a tradition of European constructivist painting while maintaining a sensibility that is distinctly her own. The series title itself signals an interest in cognition as much as composition, and Pattern Recognition No. 16 carries that intellectual weight without becoming didactic. The surface is active but controlled, and the work holds its authority at both close range and across a room. Signed by the artist and offered through Modernism Inc., this is a resolved and intellectually substantive painting that represents Baumann's mature vision at full scale. For collectors building a considered body of contemporary abstraction, it offers both visual presence and conceptual depth.
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Modernism Inc., San Francisco, CA
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Modernism Inc.View on map
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