(Born 1949) "Lynn Baker was born in a small town in the
Midwest. He later attended a private art school in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and
then the Minnesota College of Art and Design. Baker came to the Southwest in
January 1973, to accept a fellowship at the Tamarind Institute, University of
New Mexico, Albuquerque.
Since that time he has immersed himself in an
investigation of the region's land and its heritage. Fascinated by the vast
beauty and the ancient, inventive cultures of the Southwest, Baker soon began
to explore both the area's physical landscape and the object of his own
art.
Of his work he says, "I believe it must be
a synthesis not only of subject and medium, but of me, my interests and my
abilities as an artist. When I work, using an image like a polychrome jar, I'm
involved not merely in the execution of a motif but in an exploration of all
those qualities."
Baker often uses a visual artist's medium such
as pottery. About this Baker says, "In the creation of their pottery, the
Indians have taken an ordinary utilitarian object and given it great beauty of
form and decoration. I use a two-dimensional medium to explore this beauty in
an attempt to remove the possibility of response to these objects as decorated
jugs. In my lithographs I hope to influence the viewer's perception of the pot
as a complex blending of two and three dimensional forms and to expand that
perception with my visual statement about the object's intricacy and
beauty."” AskArt.com
Most recently having been represented by Scottsdale gallery Wilde Meyer, Baker's oeuvre relies on his painterly interpretation of scenes around him, those in the Southwest as well as scenes consistent with his time in Wisconsin and beyond.
About the Artist | (Born 1949) "Lynn Baker was born in a small town in the
Midwest. He later attended a private art school in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and
then the Minnesota College of Art and Design. Baker came to the Southwest in
January 1973, to accept a fellowship at the Tamarind Institute, University of
New Mexico, Albuquerque. Most recently having been represented by Scottsdale gallery Wilde Meyer, Baker's oeuvre relies on his painterly interpretation of scenes around him, those in the Southwest as well as scenes consistent with his time in Wisconsin and beyond. |
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Culture | USA, Arizona |
Style | Post Impressionism |
Medium | Acrylic on canvas-wrapped board |
Signed | "Lynn Baker" at viewer's lower right |
Date of creation | 2012 |
Condition | Excellent |
Provenance | LB |
Board size | 5" height X 7" width |