Baker Artist Portfolios

In addition to writing and performing our original music, we love to collaborate cross-culturally on a variety of interesting projects! It's an honor and a privelidge to make connections with folks around the world and engage in creative cultural exchange,  representing our identities and cultures and expressing ourselves in new, collaborative ways .

Beginning in the 1940s a string of resorts cropped up in the Catskills Mountain region of New York state. Known affectionately as "the Borscht Belt", these hotels catered to American Jews who, looking both to assimilate and gather as a tribe, converged on upstate NY for summer holidays. This series contrasts promotional postcards from that era with contemporary photographs gathered from the resort ruins today.

Postcards from Dilsberg DVD (2009): "Postcards from Dilsberg" is a collection of five musical postcards portraying the history, legends, and people of Dilsberg, Germany. The music was composed in the Summer of 2008 by Frances, Emmanuel, and Elizabeth Borowsky during their residency at the historic Dilsberg Castle. The DVD/CD combo includes scenic photos of Dilsberg from their personal collection.

Short story about a Jewish father in the 1800s appearing at town hall to register the death of his child.

This is a series of paintings I made in order to delve deeper into my Jewish identity. Each painting is a closeup of an athlete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, from the film Olympia by Leni Riefenstahl. I was trying to see as Leni Riefenstahl, a pioneer in film, saw these athletes. I wanted to get inside her head, to understand how she could also make a film such as Triumph of the Will; to claim that as an artist she was just doing her job without bias, I wanted to understand this as a Jew and an artist.

What do The Museum of Arts and Design (NY), The Banneker Douglass Museum, The Jewish of Maryland, The Reginald Lewis Museum and The American Visionary Art Museum all have in common? Besides being must-see museums, they have all featured the works of Loring Cornish this past year.

A satire about anti-Semitism: In a corporate boardroom, four men in suits discuss the next item on their agenda: "Should we, or should we not... kill the Jews?"

Artist Statement
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In my artwork, I have always dealt with tensions, harmonies, and metaphorical dichotomies that I express through visual and processual contrasts. Thus, alterations between different forms of casting and mark making, the relationship between the organic and the inorganic, and rhythmic, shifts between modulation and improvisation have always been at the core of my vocabulary as a ceramic artist.