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Edith Baumann — Pattern Recognition No. 32
Edith Baumann

Pattern Recognition No. 32

2019

Pattern Recognition No. 32 presents a tightly composed investigation of visual order and its limits, rendered in acrylic on a precisely square 40.6 × 40.6 cm canvas. Baumann works within a self-imposed formal discipline, allowing repeated motifs to accumulate across the picture plane until the logic governing them becomes simultaneously apparent and elusive. The result is a surface that rewards sustained attention, revealing shifts in rhythm, color weight, and spatial tension that resist any single, definitive reading. Edith Baumann has developed a practice rooted in the intersection of cognitive experience and painterly structure, and this work, completed in 2019, sits comfortably within the strongest period of that ongoing inquiry. The title gestures toward the perceptual act itself, implicating the viewer as an active participant rather than a passive observer. Pattern Recognition No. 32 suggests a rigorous serial commitment, and collectors acquiring this piece gain not only a resolved and confident individual work but also a window into a broader, methodically constructed body of research. The painting is signed by the artist and offered through Modernism Inc. in unframed condition, allowing the collector flexibility in presentation. Its compact scale makes it highly versatile within a collection, equally suited to an intimate domestic setting or a curated institutional grouping. Works of this caliber, where conceptual clarity and tactile painterly quality reinforce one another without compromise, represent a sound and enduring acquisition.

Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Overall
Signed
Yes
Location
Modernism Inc., San Francisco, CA

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Edith Baumann, Pattern Recognition No. 32, 2019

Pattern Recognition No. 32 presents a tightly composed investigation of visual order and its limits, rendered in acrylic on a precisely square 40.6 × 40.6 cm canvas. Baumann works within a self-imposed formal discipline, allowing repeated motifs to accumulate across the picture plane until the logic governing them becomes simultaneously apparent and elusive. The result is a surface that rewards sustained attention, revealing shifts in rhythm, color weight, and spatial tension that resist any single, definitive reading. Edith Baumann has developed a practice rooted in the intersection of cognitive experience and painterly structure, and this work, completed in 2019, sits comfortably within the strongest period of that ongoing inquiry. The title gestures toward the perceptual act itself, implicating the viewer as an active participant rather than a passive observer. Pattern Recognition No. 32 suggests a rigorous serial commitment, and collectors acquiring this piece gain not only a resolved and confident individual work but also a window into a broader, methodically constructed body of research. The painting is signed by the artist and offered through Modernism Inc. in unframed condition, allowing the collector flexibility in presentation. Its compact scale makes it highly versatile within a collection, equally suited to an intimate domestic setting or a curated institutional grouping. Works of this caliber, where conceptual clarity and tactile painterly quality reinforce one another without compromise, represent a sound and enduring acquisition.

Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 40.6 x 40.6 cm
Year
2019
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Modernism Inc., San Francisco, CA

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