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Small Paintings
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There is an intimacy in these small paintings. Densely layered over a period of years, a balance of color and mark emerges denying illusory space. The paintings project a presence not unlike a portrait – an abstract gaze. In each I seek a separate, poetic whole that faces the viewer with presence and clarity, alive in the insistent, evident humanity of its construction.
"Baker scrutinizes the painted mark as a humanist inheritance, confirming it as something worth preserving, but only if it is achieved anew upon each occurrence of painting."
-Vittorio Colaizzi
" ...the language of painting explores itself. Thick stripes assiduously accrue as though marking time without expectation... The image becomes an account of the authenticity it seeks."
-Margaret McCann
... small, intense canvases ... their understated design of densely brushed tiers of brushstrokes ... vibrate with compact energy.
-John Goodrich
