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Kristin Baker

Kristin Baker (Born 1975) is active/lives in New York, Massachusetts.  Kristin Baker is 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 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 corrugated surfaces that approximate collage or even the planar aggregation of 3D digital imaging techniqu   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6117 characters.]  Artist bio

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