Baker Artist Portfolios

In my work, I use materials from daily life, objects that have cultural associations and points of reference for viewers. I explore the tension between the cerebral concerns of minimalism and an investigation of humanity: emotional, spiritual, symbolic, and narrative. At its core, the work is a meditation on entropy, time, loss, decay, renewal, and survival.

In my work, I use materials from daily life, objects that have cultural associations and points of reference for viewers. I explore the tension between the cerebral concerns of minimalism and an investigation of humanity: emotional, spiritual, symbolic, and narrative. At its core, the work is a meditation on entropy, time, loss, decay, renewal, and survival.

"No Fats No Fems" is a multimedia installation that explores expressions of desire and self while challenging contemporary ideas of public and private. A set of silk curtains patterned with male torsos hangs above the threshold of a bedroom. At the center of the room behind the curtains is a bed onto which various men are projected. Along the walls of the installation, a slideshow of semi-clothed men scrolls past. Removed from their original contexts, the posed and polished men become symbols of sensuality and machismo.

The Re-Education is an exhibition featuring mixed media and sculptural works, photography, and text in an introspective analysis of the internal and external forces that have helped condition the gifted black mind.

A Note From Morgan Monceaux

I grew up in Louisiana in a time when it was said that if you had just a drop of Negro blood you were black. I was eight years the summer I learned that I was also part Indian.

Exploring Gluttony, Sugar, Diet, Obsession, and Idealism in Glass, Candy, Cardboard, Adhesives, and Light

i/you/us/we/black/or where is the love? will examine the surface level of interpersonal relationships and psychic experiences of race as it relates to expressions of feelings on the
internet. For this performance, I will move through the space, with my neck tied by a rope

The “Reconstruction” series investigates the materials and metaphors of labor through public art, private sculptural and object-painting works. In 2008, I began revisiting my boyhood obsession with trucks and construction equipment. The series ranges from small-scale gallery pieces to two large public art installations. I have tried to transform the image of innocence of a child playing with toys into a larger, more complex subject.

I designed, built and directed puppets for Lola Pierson's adaptation of Gertrude Stein's The World is Round. The puppets of Love the dog and The Lion, were made to be performed by one or two people. I used negative space and simple materials to create the imagined friends of a little girl in a surreal play. As with most of my work, the materials used are very visible in the final work. I do not hide the paper and cardboard, but highlight it. The material is just as much of the communication of the character as the design is.