Baker Artist Portfolios

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.

Recent work with fabric, mainly embroidery. Other techniques soon.

My recent works investigate the concept and contextualized reality of whiteness primarily through performance-based sculpture and video. Having lived in communities as the racial majority and other communities as the numerical minority has challenged me to examine what it means to be white. At times I am overwhelmed by the complexities of whiteness and other times understand it to be simply that which is not white. The works in this show explore the space where whiteness is most apparent?juxtaposed with blackness.

Oblivia around town. Consumed by her own musings, Oblivia seems unaware of the impact of her ?cracker-ness? on those around her.

This project features a selection of works from Hukam, a full-length album released in 2011. Ami Dang composed, produced and performed voice and sitar on all songs attached here.

 In the early 1990s I created 14 works reflecting a distinctly American art form the classic one patch patterned scrap quilt.
Quilting is a collage technique. Memories of home, family, community are preserved from worn bits and pieces gathered over time that relate personal stories as ideograms of memory and pattern holding meaning for the maker. 
How I originally employed the quilt technique is still very much the way I use it now, and though look and scale are quite superficially different, their original identity is intact.
 
 
 
 

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.