Baker Artist Portfolios

‘Ruby Moon: A Parade of Vintage Elegance’ is an interactive exhibit highlighting several early 1900's, innovative, female performers who defied gender stereotypes such as Josephine Baker: a comedienne & dancer, Charmion: a strong woman &trapeze artist, Loïe Fuller: an avant-garde dancer, Maria Spelterini: a tightrope equilibrist who was the only woman to cross Niagara Gorge on tightrope & The Planet Number: a follies style performance. The stories of these rarae aves are told through sculptural tapestries, toy theatre vignettes & advertisement style illustrated posters.

I have been an object maker for as long as I can remember. Over the past 5 years or so I feel that a lifetime spent teaching art has emphasized for me the interactive and empowering aspect to art making. These works bring together interaction in order to create empowerment.

The Meditations electroacoustic series highlights the musical voice of the performer within an interactive constraining structure. They are intended both for performance and personal use. This particular meditation provides an optional lead sheet and a computer program that plays along with the performer by sampling material live and playing it back transposed. The resultant harmonies and rhythms are tightly controlled to create a wave of consonance articulated by gentle dissonances.

An interactive app for the Ipad. Join Edgar as he explores Baltimore's history and attractions. Currenty in development.

Like the magnetic head of a tape recorder reading a cassette tape, viewers are invited to draw audio in order to hear citizens of Prague remembering their former Communist past. Sensors are hidden behind vandyke prints that eventually fade, archiving the listeners. The project features Czech artists who were imprisoned or in exile such as Fluxus artist Milan Knizak and Milos Voytechovsky.

A series of photographs spanning 11 years documenting my impulse to explore architectural spaces, most commonly spaces that I have inhabited, with my body.

Relying upon the body as a universal language, the goal of the artwork is to ultimately call attention to the viewers’ body; to make the viewer aware of their presence in space, to challenge and modify their movement, and to offer another means of connection with the artwork.

From a series of Instructional Dance Machines, theses site-specific sculptures and installations modify the architecture of the space, and force the viewer to "dance" their way through the installation. These sculptures 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.

Photographs and Sculptures exploring my body's relationship with the landscape.

100 ceramic objects dipped in latex paint. Viewers were invited to move, remove, destroy or otherwise interact with the objects.

Interactive artwork. Asks audience to choose their own gender.