Baker Artist Portfolios

jhana and the rats of james olds or 31 days/31 videos
Between June 25th-Aug. 7th 2011 Stephanie Barber moved her studio into the Baltimore Museum of Art where she created a new video each day in a central gallery open to museum visitors.

Jhana is a meditative state and James Olds is the protoneuroscientist who discovered the pleasure or reward center of the human brain by doing experiments on rats.

Collage works with mixed media on paper.

abstractions from the sky and sea in mixed media with collage and found objects

Amanda's newest body of work currently is exhibited through the use of collage.

My new portrait series uses photos Iâ??ve taken of friends or family to begin the work. Heavy digital manipulation and separately layered output create depth in the image when applied to my aluminum canvas. Often, the look of the subject, their clothing, or someone else, unintentionally caught in the picture at the moment of the shutter release, is enough to spark an idea. As the image evolves I make changes to meanings by including other similar images, reversed overlays of the same image or some text describing a feeling or moment in the subjectâ??s life.

Mayan Relics, Spirits, and Shards

The goal of the calendar project was to create a work of art everyday in 2010.

Before speaking there was the other side of the tongue,
I saw silence.
Now I shout or whisper.
Seeming contradictions live in a world of perhaps,
Opposites attract or notâ?¦

There are 15,000 varieties of Orchids, Iâ??m told.
I call love without words,
Without knowing names.
I sit before the faces of flowers,
Losing myself.

Things happen and suddenly you know.

On photographs I took of 700 year old Florentine walls (including more recent graffiti), pavements, streets, manhole covers and cobblestone squares. I determine to adhere to our grandmotherâ??s and motherâ??s motto â??waste not want notâ?. I glue, patch, measure, mark, decorate, fasten, mimic, pin, stitch, recycle and so doing I smile, dedicate and remember.

I created the script for this project and acted in the piece. Poe Project was created by collaging the work of Edgar Allen Poe, taking phrases and portions of stories to rearrange it into a new piece. The goal of the project was to reach the essence of Poe--to explore various motifs and themes in his work and deconstruct them to their purest form.