Sea Fruit
2020
Lydia Baker
Monotype on masa paper
39.4 x 53.3 cm
Unframed
(ships from the US)
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2020
Lydia Baker
Monotype on masa paper
39.4 x 53.3 cm
Unframed
(ships from the US)
Artwork description
Lydia Baker offers us positive escapism, letting us savour moments of discovery of a new fantasy world, which explores the ideas of the sanctuary, harmony, and the unknown. The intimacy of her work originates from a precise balance of connection and detachment. The delicate pink and blue lines suggest the outlines of the world, but the rest is up to our imagination. The composition vibrates with freedom: not only by working with unfilled spaces, but also by adding the female figures charmingly stretching through the scene embodying utter bodily freedom. Baker submerges us into this world full of hope and excitement and makes us momentarily forget the harsh reality around us, which has more than gentle pink and blue lines.
Lydia Baker
Lydia Baker lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2013 and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2020. She is a recipient of the New York Academy of Art’s Post-Graduate Chubb Fellowship, NYFA’s City Artist Corps Grant and an IEA Art Heals Grant. Her work has been featured by numerous publications including Art Maze Magazine, Friend of the Artist, Artsy and Juxtapoz. Baker has exhibited her work throughout the United States, recently at Sugarlift Gallery and through the Chubb Insurance Viewing Room at Art Basel. In the fall of 2021, she will be an artist in residence at the High Line Nine x Sugarlift Gallery in NYC and at the Saltonstall Foundation in Ithaca, New York.
Artist statement:
A need for a playful escapism led me to create my current body of work. As I draw, I immerse myself in different worlds, offering the viewer a point of departure from reality. Trusting my intuition, I primarily use colored pencils on paper to create vibrant, whimsical scenes. Female figures enjoy bodily freedom, savoring moments of discovery and pleasure. The beauty of nature is spiritualized— nestled somewhere between pure harmony and the unknown
Two/Three-Person Exhibitions:
2021
-Chubb Fellows Exhibition, Wilkinson Gallery, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
-Exit Point, Sugarlift Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions/Fairs
2021
-Artists for Artists, Sotheby’s, New York, NY (upcoming)
-Six New Voices for the Twenties, Susan Eley Fine Arts, New York, NY (online)
2020
-Art Basel Miami, Chubb Insurance Viewing Room (online)
-Artists for Artists, via Sotheby’s & New York Academy of Art (online)
-The Feminine Agenda, Women’s Work Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
-Summer Exhibition, Juried by Joeonna Bellardo-Samuels, Andrea Scott & Alia Williams, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY (online)
-Milieu, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
