Monika Baer – ARTBOOK|D.A.P.

Berlin-based artist Monika Baer (born 1964) approaches the picture as "a site of staging or performance.� Figurative elements such as keyholes, coins and slices of meat act as agents within the staged space of the image, while defying organization as a coherent narrative. Baer�s paintings and drawings evoke desires and afflictions and convey the visceral pleasure and pain of their own making.This volume, accompanying the first US museum exhibition of the artist�s paintings and drawings, includes works created between 1990 and 2013.