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Born 1975 Stamford, Connecticut. Known for: Acrylic abstract auto-racing themed painting, prints, assemblage, photography.
Kristin Baker is bending painting's seeming limitations. By emphasizing the materiality of paint through her built up layers of troweled acrylic, Baker's paintings approach other two-dimensional... Read full biography
Kristin Baker is bending painting's seeming limitations. By emphasizing the materiality of paint through her built up layers of troweled acrylic, Baker's paintings approach other two-dimensional practices such as printmaking, photography and paper assemblage. While upholding the power and dynamism... Read full biography
Kristin Baker is bending painting's seeming limitations. By emphasizing the materiality of paint through her built up layers of troweled acrylic, Baker's paintings approach other two-dimensional practices such as printmaking, photography and paper assemblage. While upholding the power and dynamism of painting, Baker seeks to create a third dimension in between many genres and hindered by none. Her compositions combine illusionistic and pictorial space as well as blatantly artificial forms and... Read full biography
Kristin Baker is bending painting's seeming limitations. By emphasizing the materiality of paint through her built up layers of troweled acrylic, Baker's paintings approach other two-dimensional practices such as printmaking, photography and paper assemblage. While upholding the power and dynamism of painting, Baker seeks to create a third dimension in between many genres and hindered by none. Her compositions combine illusionistic and pictorial space as well as blatantly artificial forms and surfaces. Each mark and shape is created not by a brush but by an outline of torn tape. The final silhouette is filled in with paint, and when the tape is ripped away, a free-floating "gesture" or "mark" is added to the piece. These shapes are layered... Read full biography
Kristin Baker is bending painting's seeming limitations. By emphasizing the materiality of paint through her built up layers of troweled acrylic, Baker's paintings approach other two-dimensional practices such as printmaking, photography and paper assemblage. While upholding the power and dynamism of painting, Baker seeks to create a third dimension in between many genres and hindered by none. Her compositions combine illusionistic and pictorial space as well as blatantly artificial forms and surfaces. Each mark and shape is created not by a brush but by an outline of torn tape. The final silhouette is filled in with paint, and when the tape is ripped away, a free-floating "gesture" or "mark" is added to the piece. These shapes are layered together to make forms and landscapes or scraped away to reveal the colors underneath. Layers of these joints create tufts, grooves and corrug... Read full biography
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Keywords (19)
Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Painting, Fine Art
- •Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
- •Photography as Fine Art
- •Spray Can, Spray Gun Painting, Aerosol
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction and Realism; Semi Abstract
- •Abstraction, Abstract
Art Subject
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Sports Figures, Athletes, Genre, Events
- •Vehicles: Automobiles/Trucks and/or Motorcycles
Art School
- •School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Student
- •Yale University School of Fine Art and Architecture, Student
Chronology
- •Early 21st Century
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Exhibition of Museum
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art