Baker Artist Portfolios

This project portfolio shows image stills from video installation and live animation mixing performance for 2017 Philadelphia Fashion Week's Made Institute Fashion Show. Imagery was inspired from Eastern Orthodox religious iconography, created using assets collected from participating designers, models, artists and their works, to draw a parallel between different types of icons from fashion to pop to religious.  In collaboration with digital artist Fredric Freeman. 

A memoir in the form of a graphic novel about growing up in Baltimore and becoming an artist with the Civil Rights Movement developing around me.

"Everlasting Light," still in the planning stage, is a web-based, found-poetry project that will compile any and all lines of published poetry that reference natural light along with the time of day.

The project is inspired by "The Clock," a 24-hour video installation by Christian Marclay. The work is a montage of scenes from film and television that feature clocks or timepieces, and the artwork itself functions as a clock: its presentation lines up with the actual time, resulting in the time shown in a scene being the actual time.

Series of 50 enlarged flags.

I've been working on my paper illustrations using various body shapes, themes, and brown tone papers. I would like to incorporate more illustrated backgrounds and textures with the paper people.

Recently I've been inspired by singing group En Vogue, the original and remake of the movie Sparkle, and current faux fur fashion trends for 2017 fall/winter.

Attached here is the video from my fundraiser competition. My goal was to teach, learn, and exhibition diversity and inclusion with paper illustrations at Artomatic in Crystal City with the $500 raised. Because I was the first of the Urban Arts Leadership Program Fellows to reach my goal I was matched with an additional $500! 

I start by building a visual archive of photos I have taken of my travels, of my pets and of plants from botanical gardens and my house. I print them, cut them out by hand and then arrange them into new landscapes.  I thoroughly enjoy the process of collaging images together. It generates connections and meaning between different elements in my life, revealing what feels like memory.  ​

These two examples were made in 2015 and 2017. They are built in custom frames that press the collage between two pieces of glass and hang two inches off the wall to cast shadows behind them.

This series of watercolor collages developed after a visit to Las Vegas, NV and a reading of the architectural classic, "Learning from Las Vegas" by Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi. Inspired by midcentury Googie design this series is a fusion of collage and wallpaper design elements.

The goal of the Summer Silence series was to create a group of abstract paintings to express the essence of summer.  Reality intrudes (summer 2016). Noteworthy or perhaps prescient is that the book leaves for these mixed media works are from the John Hersey novel The Wall about the Warsaw ghetto imposed by the Nazis during WW II.