Baker Artist Portfolios

Geometry is a universal language. Every place and time has its own logic of relation, connection, and interaction. The quality of these arrangements impacts our environments and individual lives. As a visual art, geometric abstraction has the ability to interrogate modern systems and technology with patterns, shapes, and lines, questioning how forms, and therefore we, interact and achieve balance.

Wendell Supreme Shannon's geometric abstractions depict a complex modern hive, filled with free, optimistic life. Vibrant color blocking and linework anchor energetic, often illusory, patterns. By overcoming a health crisis with two steady hands, each piece’s precise, methodical work captures his own relentless positivity and adaptability. As a traveling artist, he garnered national recognition before entering formal training at MICA in Baltimore, MD, where he currently resides, leading and inspiring his home community while advancing various artistic pursuits.

The visual style of his most prominent series continues to grow fractally from the Power of Absence (2015). Since this work, each piece (including Fifty-One Percent (2016), Diversity (2016)) is guided by the same operating procedures. New abstractions continue to blossom from shared principles (Dimensions (2020), Options (2021), Compartmentalize (2023)). As a result, the visual vocabulary carries deep wisdom for navigating contemporary life without stagnation. Like the constant overlap of roadways and internet channels, each intersection is governed by simple, discrete connections with neighboring forms. This process creates harmony with neither division nor duplication. Whereas geometric abstraction of the past depicted stable, delineated utopias, Wendell’s work champions vivid optimism for dynamic, but free, communities of the future.

His art continues to make fractal impacts beyond the canvas. Community projects, public speaking, children’s books, and international design campaigns translate the positivity of his visual language into everyday action. Passion (2016) appears in fashion, while The Power of Absence (and its mathematical logic) continues appearing on public surfaces and in community education. Behind the scenes, Wendell applies the same consistency, adaptation, and determination to everyday life. As a muralist, he directs publicly and privately commissioned works as community-building projects by inspiring creatives and volunteers to practice his visual vocabulary. As a creative business person, he teaches and leads programming for nonprofits and schools, encouraging creative approaches to art applied to business (and vice versa).

Dynamically, the scale of his work has evolved alongside its visual style. Wendell’s approach and creativity have taken the shape of international, corporate, and community-based initiatives. Inspired by the ambition and passion of those who have poured into him, his work honors their memory by claiming the power to continually build new opportunities into great achievements.