Lucy Baker

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Lucy Baker (born February 24, 1955 in Wellesley , Massachusetts ) is an American artist and representative of abstract painting in the USA .

Life

Baker studied from 1973 to 1975 at Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont (majoring in sculpture and calligraphy) and graduated in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts. In 1977 she completed specialty training in welding at Platt Technical High School in Milford, Connecticut. In 1980 she initiated the "Boston Painters and Sculptors" group. In 1990 she was a founding member of the " New New Painters ". Baker made extensive study trips to France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan and South Africa. Works by the artist are in the National Gallery in Prague, the Edmonton Art Gallery in Canada, the Comino Foundation Vaduz / Lichtenstein, 21st Century Masterworks in New York, the Aldrich Museum in Connecticut as well as in numerous private collections in Belgium, Germany, France, Japan, Canada , Austria, Spain, South Africa, the Czech Republic and the USA.

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Lucy Baker belongs to the 3rd generation of Abstract Expressionism. Important artistic personalities who influenced her early work were Jackson Pollock , Jules Olitski and Larry Poons . At the beginning of the 80s, new colors, binders and pigments - such as the Acrylic Gel developed by Sam Golden - opened up completely new design possibilities. The exceptionally adventurous artist also likes to use small everyday objects that are integrated into the picture composition and embedded in thick pools of color, broken glass that is added to the acrylic gel and holographic glitter particles. The dripping elements refer to Pollock, appear at the same time like calligraphic derivations and sometimes overflow with lush ornamentation. Baker prefers an expressive and high-contrast color palette of extravagant sensuality and uses almost everything that is suitable for applying color, from sponges to spray nozzles for garnishing cakes. Her painting techniques are reminiscent of the preparation of food: knead, stir, portion, top, fill, peel, emulsify.

The works created on Plexiglas in the 80s were as radical as they were trend-setting. They record their own creation in a kind of limbo, a strange spatiality that results from the combination of transparent image carrier and plastic color matter. The curator and art critic Kenworth Moffet describes these works as a new image category in the no man's land between painting and sculpture, which vehemently opposes Clement Greenberg's demand to avoid any spatiality in painting and thus finally breaks the dominance of colorfield painting. Moffet aptly described the artist's and other representatives of the New New Painters group's lustfully arranged aesthetic taboo breaks as “Punk meets Colorfield”. (Gerald Trimmel)

Solo and group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2008 Huitai Art Center, Tianjin, China
  • 2002 Museum of New New Painting, Toronto, Canada (solo)
  • 2002 National Gallery Prague
  • 2002 Galerie des Arts Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
  • 2001 Gallery Anne Lettree, Paris
  • 2001 Hôtel de Ville (City Hall), Brussels
  • 2000 Gelabert Studios, New York
  • 1999 Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
  • 1999 Gilbert Studios Gallery, New York City
  • 1999 Flint Institute for the Arts, Flint, Michigan
  • 1998 The Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida, "New Acrylic Painters"
  • 1995 Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New York City
  • 1993 City Gallery Göppingen (D)
  • 1993 Musée des Beaux Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
  • 1993 Musée d'Art Modern et d'Art Contemporain, Nice
  • 1993 Gallery One, Toronto
  • 1993 Tilly Haderek Gallery, Stuttgart
  • 1992 Dambier Masset Gallery, Paris
  • 1992 Gerald Piltzer Gallery, Paris, "Inaugural New New Painting Exhibition"
  • 1987 Aldridge Museum, Ridgefield, CT
  • 1986 Shippee Gallery, New York (solo)
  • 1986 Matthew Scott Gallery, Miami, FL
  • 1984 Boston Painters and Sculptors, 29th Annual South Shore Arts Festival, curated by Lucy Baker
  • 1983 Babson College, Wellesley, MA (solo)
  • 1982-86 Gallery One, Toronto
  • 1981-88 The Front Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
  • 1980–82 Waltham Studios, Waltham, MA (solo)
  • 1975 Goddard College, Plainfield, VT (solo)

literature

  • Lucy Baker. Automatic abstraction. Hutai Art Center, China, September 27th - October 7th, 2008. Tianjin 2008.
  • Lucy Baker. Exhibitions 2002. On the occasion of the exhibitions "Lucy Baker - Acrylic Paintings", Museum of New New Painting, Toronto, Canada, May 25-July 15; New New Painting Group Show, The National Gallery of Prague, April 12-September 1; New New Painting Group Show, Galerie d 'Arts Contemporains, Montréal, Canada, May 16-June 14. Baltic, CT 2002.
  • New New Painters. National Gallery Prague, 2002. With essays by Milan Knížák , Natalie Sykorová, Thomas Vicek, Kenworth W. Moffett and David Carrier. Prague 2002.
  • Baker, Lucy; Neal, Irene (Eds.): New New Painters at the 69th Regiment Armory, 26th & Lexington Avenues, New York City, May 18 - May 23, 2000. OO 2000.
  • Scott, Sue (Ed.): The New New Painters. Flint Institute of the Arts, January 1999. Contribution by David Carrier. Flint, MI 1999.
  • New New Painting. Fine Art 2000, Stamford, Connecticut. Introduction by John Henry III, contributions by Donald Kuspit and Arlene Raven, Stamford, Connecticut 1996.
  • Meyer, Werner (Ed.): New New Painting. Städtische Galerie Göppingen, September 19 - October 24, 1993. Edition Cantz, Ostfildern 1993.
  • New New Painting. Texts de Kenworth Moffet, postface de Marcel Paquet. Nouvelles Editiones Françaises & Galerie Gerald Piltzer, Paris 1992. (French and German language)

Web links

  • Lucy Baker - A selection of works (video clip on YouTube)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucy Baker par Lucy Baker. In: New New Painting. Texts de Kenworth Moffet, postface de Marcel Paquet. Nouvelles Editiones Françaises & Galerie Gerald Piltzer, Paris 1992, p. 50f.
  2. ↑ Meyer, Werner (Ed.): New New Painting. Städtische Galerie Göppingen, September 19 - October 24, 1993. Edition Cantz, Ostfildern 1993, p. 11.
  3. ^ Moffett, Kenworth: The new acrylic painting. In: New New Painting. Texts de Kenworth Moffet, postface de Marcel Paquet. Nouvelles Editiones Françaises & Galerie Gerald Piltzer, Paris 1992 (French and German language), p. 40.
  4. ^ Greenberg, Clement: Modernist painting. In: Lüdeking, Karlheinz (ed.): The essence of modernity. Selected essays and reviews by Clement Greenberg. From the American by Christoph Hollender. Verlag der Kunst, Amsterdam / Dresden 1997, pp. 265–278.
  5. ↑ Moffetts Artletter 2.0. The Writings of Kenworth W. Moffett. Editorial. http://kenworthwmoffett.net/ (June 6, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Baker, Lucy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Wellesley , Massachusetts