Baker Artist Portfolios

These works were experiments to look at the way viscosity and chemical makeup alter the way fluids interact during the mixing process. They are systems that have been frozen in the entropic process.

This video portion of the installation was shot on location in New York City, San Francisco, DC, and Baltimore over the course of nearly a year and a half. The work was shot entirely with the use of a cell phone.

The Bellows March (a.k.a. Bellows), runs anthropomorphized concertinas through a cycle of destroy-create-destroy, contemplating the destructive and expressive potential of humans, and observes these extremes as an eternal cycle.

“…a most unusual and very old 19th century zoetrope cyclical device using 21st Century combined techniques places it in a separate category that may have to be invented....”
Bill Matthews, Disney Features, Head of Training

The Bellows March (a.k.a. Bellows), runs anthropomorphized concertinas through a cycle of destroy-create-destroy, contemplating the destructive and expressive potential of humans, and observes these extremes as an eternal cycle.

“…a most unusual and very old 19th century zoetrope cyclical device using 21st Century combined techniques places it in a separate category that may have to be invented....”
Bill Matthews, Disney Features, Head of Training

This is an ongoing series portraying important and inspiring artists that I've met over the last couple years. Most of them were taken on a 3 month trip driving around Europe.

Each Polaroid becomes a part of that moment, as it's ejected from the camera and touched and held by the model and myself. Something I find unique about Polaroid and how I look and hold them years later.

Lost in Translation is part of a multi series project utilizing found objects instead of traditional photography lenses to create images designed to challenge and redirect the generalized definitions we use to construct our realities.

holi! is part of a multi series project utilizing found objects instead of traditional photography lenses to create images designed to challenge and redirect the generalized definitions we use to construct our realities.

These 5 video works represent a series of pieces I made from 2010-2012 that all utilize music composed by my son Elliott Grabill.

This is a short experimental video I did taking as a starting point a line from the Edgar Allen Poe story, A Tell Tale Heart. I took the idea of the blue eye as an infectious irritant.

Marie is a hand drawn animation, rotoscoped from a part of Bresson's film Au Hasard Balthazar. The image changes and is frequently is interrupted. The intention was to remove the emotional tone from the scene and create emotion in the viewer through a physical reaction to the strobing colors and erratic structure. Sound by Snacks, Tom Boram and Dan Breen and music by Brahms. work in progress, 2010. 6 minutes dvd projection.