RICHARD BAKER

B. 1959, Baltimore, MD.

Richard Baker explores the realm of the everyday object by presenting it in a renewed context. The still life is refreshed through an altered point of view, pitching the objects upward in space toward an iconic frontality. He has used the motif of the tulip repeatedly to conjure a living emblem of birth, life, and decay.

His work has been shown at the Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, NY; Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; and Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA. He has also exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Cologne among other cities. He is currently represented by Tibor de Nagy Gallery in NY for over 10 years.

Baker's work is in the permanent collections of The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Newark Museum, NJ; and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA. His awards include a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and The New York Foundation for the Arts. He has been a visiting artist at The University of Iowa, Boston University, The Rhode Island School of Design, The School of Visual Art in New York, the Vermont Studio Center, and others. He has long standing involvements with The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and Castle Hill Center for the Arts in Truro, MA where he conducts workshops. Baker taught for eleven years at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. After 25 years in NY, he now resides in Cambridge, MA.  

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