Baker’s got a show up now at Foxy Productions. Not sure if I buy the rhetoric, but it’s interesting, in that Baker’s very much a part of the faux-pastoral movement that you’ll see scattered around Chelsea these days:
In Civil Dusk – the period after the sun has edged below the horizon and objects are still distinguishable – Baker uses cloaks of fog, smoke, or dust, and disorienting inversions and combinations to make the known feel uncanny. Baker explores American landscape painting’s myths of expansion and freedom, and its conjuring of sentiment and the sublime.
More work:
blasted work!