Baker Artist Portfolios

Assemblage: Oil on wood, wire, objects. 14"h x 20"w x 6"d. As if the Holocaust weren't bad enough, I envisioned a connection between the prisoner and his dream of children, which turned out to be another nightmare, that of child soldiers in our time. Doing the research was heartbreaking.

The Spirit sculptures emerged as a concept to harness blessings and explore the intuitive, irrational or unconscious phenomena. Although each one is different, they are linked to nature, emotions or cultural myths. The sculptures were inspired by a Haitian voodoo bottle that  are common libation or rum bottles covered in sequins or beads and placed on altars as offerings to the orishas.  For me, they have a meditative quality as I build them using  reflective and fragile materials.   

These works primarily consist of light and electricity. The electronic components used to control the electricity are free form soldered as prominent elements in sculptural composition. In addition, the circuitry controls the timing of the light, while rubber, conductive thread, consumer packaging and paper alter the quality of that light.

Commonplace uses light as a sculptural element in installation. The logic of their circuits ensures that the tiny lights fade on and off in direct correlation to the other lights blinking nearby. Each light functions as a discrete object while simultaneously contributing to the ebb and flow of the environment.
The lights are aimed at various objects throughout the room. The objects range from discarded plastic packaging, PC board, or saltine crackers. They function simultaneously as obstructions, windows, and lenses for the light aimed through and around them.

Curatorial Projects

2012 Vacation, Penthouse Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Works on paper exhibition based on the theme of play.

2010 WILD NOTHING, The Metro Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Photographic works exhibition based around the themes of youth and nostalgia.

2009 STUFF: Domestic Treasures, The Metro Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Installation exhibition around the theme of the artist studio and objects that inspire the artists' work.

Tidbits of the past. Decades of playing the blues while making Engravings/Aquatint and Mezzotint Etchings prints on my studio press.
Although many of the prints have been sold without documentation, this is a small representation of several series of prints and a small clip of my contribution to the Baltimore Blues scene over the last 30 years.
The Mezzotint Series, the ground is applied by hand with a serrated tool on a Copper Plate, different levels of ink provide a full range of grays and blacks.

 Stewart is Executive Director, curator, chief bottle washer and a Founder of Area 405 

Very flat sculptures about the artifice of parties

Eight years ahead of the Excessivism Movement that started in 2015, Ocean was a sensory overload of a critique on our consumerist culture gone wild. Constructed in March 2007 for one month in the main gallery of the Creative Alliance, it's ship-shaped installation sat on a diagonal across the 2000 sq ft space and contained eight rooms, each with a unique theme. It was a 360 degree shift in materials and concept from the preceding public sited ship installations, each of which  were constructed primarily of slab wood around or near existing trees.