Baker Artist Portfolios

A selection of works (both 2D and 3D) that are hung on the wall.

The collage and square themes, continued

This project is about the use of scraps from cutting up older works on paper.  Each piece is a 6" x 6" panel. They were developed and completed as a group.   

Many of my paintings evolve from works on paper, painted sketches. In 2015 I recycled a lot of my paper-based pieces into this series of collages that I call "re-masks". Each consists entirely of an older, cut up, acrylic and ink painting on paper. Some of them include found images. These two dimensional masks have been installed unframed and as a group on a large wall, but here are shown individually.

This group of drawings are representative of a body of work presently underway - though related to the landscape concerns of my past work, these works have more in common with the subjective organization of my installations than my older drawings, and more extensively capitalize on the metaphoric potential of landscape idioms.

Studio shots of  work created from Baltimore Museum of Art dumpster refuse and recycled materials from my studio, meant to be stacked, arranged and rearranged by visitors. 2015-2016.

In Phase 4, the artist takes Transcentricity to its largest scale while exploring printmaking techniques using homemade printing plates for many of the painted layers. The color palette in this series combines earth tones and metallics with the darker monochromatic colors used in Phase 1.

Transcentricity is a series of mixed media collage paintings, which combines the abstract and the exact. The works are loose but controlled; improvised but calculated.

This works in this series are "woven paintings". Concentric circles were cut from a series of painted paper and woven back into the painted backgrounds. Unlike the previous Phases of Transcentricity, the woven elements in this series create a "tactile" surface for the final compositions. Each painting is named after a Norse god or goddess.

Transcentricity is series of mixed media collage paintings, which combines the abstract and the exact. The works are loose but controlled; improvised but calculated.

Drive is a shadow box created with wood which contains a mixed media collage. The dimensions are 5" x 9" x 12". This piece was created based on a memory of driving. The long narrow road ahead evokes the abstracted sense of space one experiences while driving. Driving for me always carries the paradox of being both enveloped in and separated from the landscape. Inherit in any drive is series of shifting views of the surrounding space. Car windows serve as portholes delimiting a specific, yet ambient views. The concept of mediation is emphasized through shrinking and containing the landscape.