Baker Artist Portfolios

Windowed Vistas investigates the relationship between human–technology–nature. How current living conditions has led us further away from nature because of how we are so plugged into the technology, devices, and the Internet. Through the use of today millennial's visual vernacular that is post-Internet, post-modern aesthetic, I attempt to bring nature to technology and technology to nature, so today's generation can reconnect with nature in a more relatable way, meaning presenting nature that has been processed by technology.

In 2014 we were invited to participate in the world's first 'Gay Wax Museum' installation which would take place at Austin Texas's OUTsider festival in February 2015. For this installation we created a lifesize diorama of Charmion: a late 1800's stongwoman & trapeze artist. We created our installation out of gatorboard, fabric, paint, research & trim. To make our installation more interactive, we created a free postcard souvenir with information about this innovative performer & activist

When we were invited to participate in Artscape 2015: “Harbor High Port (of Call) & Other Phenomenades” we had the ambitious idea to create a giant toy theatre multi-Dimensional interactive installation performance tent.
Our interpretation of the theme, rising waters of the inner harbor meet Station North, was to create a tent that reflected vintage colors & movement of water. For this, we sewed over 1,000 scales/petals/flaps, as well as a tent 'big top' to encompass the installation experience.

This body of work utilized steel to incorporate kinetic parts and to allow for participation of the viewer with my sculptures. Inspired by examinations of Lygia Clark’s Bichos sculptures from the early 1960s and my history and training as a fabricator, these works integrated personal mediative paintings with the ritualistic nature of metal working to explore imagined futurist/renaissance altar pieces. The contemplative nature of these handmade kinetic objects allows them to serve as batteries of perforative action.

The DIGITAL INTIMACY installation provides a glimpse of what we give up in exchange for 'likes' and 'thumbs up' while trillions of gigabytes of personal data are exchanged secretly, without our consent, and with virtually no oversight. DIGITAL INTIMACY affords a visceral awareness of otherwise invisible and intangible daily assaults on personal boundaries in the digital age.

This work is a result of my physical and emotional experience of Bilbao, created during, and immediately following, my 6-month residency at BilbaoArte in Bilbao, Spain. This work was selected for a solo exhibition, titled "Proprioception" in October 2015 at BilbaoArte in Bilbao, Spain.

Documentation from both Live Performances and Interactive Installations exploring the concept of Personal Space. The work featured in the first 9 images were created during my 3 year residency, from 2011-2014 at The Creative Alliance in Baltimore, Maryland and were presented in my two-person exhibition, "Fight or Flight" in The Creative Alliance's main gallery in 2014.

Lian moved into Penthouse Gallery at the beginning of September, 2015. Lian is from Taiwan and has been living in the United States for the past seven years. Since graduating from the Maryland Institute College of Art this past May, her student visa was set to expire on October 1st. The one way she could potentially stay was by qualifying for an OPT (Optional Practical Training) visa, which requires maintaining a job in the field that you studied. In this case, that was sculpture, and Lian was having a hard time finding a place to work.

An open ended drawing installation picturing Baltimore through massed drawings of its structures and the words and images of city residents, "RFP" celebrated the ideal of an open city that actively welcomes and functions on behalf of all its residents. Constructed entirely at EMP Collective's downtown locations (a vast, raw former commercial storefront in the Bromo Tower District), “RFP” was built and evolved all day, every day, over the course of two months.

An interactive/ gamelike project.