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04/23/2009
Lucy Baker
Updates
I had a one person show in Tianjin,China and was in a number of group shows there also, this past year. And I recently added to a painting that was given to the Flint Museum of Arts, Flint .Michigan, by a Greenwich, Ct collector, so now they have 2 large scale works by me!! There are also paintings by others in my group, The New New Painters. (we had a group show there, some time ago).John Henry the Director has built a nice collection of all of our work there.
01/28/2009
Frecklefish
Lucy Baker
Lucy's birthday is coming up! Get ready for a PARTY!
At this party we will teach LB how to spell!
Then the world will be her oyster.
04/11/2008
Lucy Baker
More info about Lucy Baker
I though it might be a good idea to give a bit more info about myself here. I began painting very young.Unlike most artists who come to art later in life, I did not.I began painting before I did most anything else.I have been an artist right fromthe beginning.First like most American kids, I was given paper and paints, the only difference was, I never put them down. If you are nterested in the specifics, I'd be happy to answer questions. So when I was in grade school the techers realize I was different from the other kids and I was often separated or taken out of class, to try different mediums.It was this kind of special treatment that led me ,early on , into experimentation, which I have been known for throughout my career. And I was made aware of the many types of art, that existed , and because of that , I have tried most of them.Two of my early influences(among many) were David Smith and Jackson Pollock. It's quite common among artists today to claim these two as sources, but in my case it was really true, unlike many who say that, but there is really little or no connection. And it always seemed funny to me that to Pollock , Picasso was to Pollock, as Pollock is to me, yet I feel no connection or even love for Picasso. I admire Picasso's drive, but that is about it. To me, Pollock is far more interesting as a painter.Not because of "action painting"(he was a great painter before that),but simply because he was a great painter.Far better than most people even realize today.I knew this many ,many years go. Long before the rest of the world realized it,and what I found even more amazing was that most people couldn't "see" or understand Pollock for so many years.But the Color field artists knew it. And I couldn't understand why people were so attracted to Pop art, when it seemed so obvious to me how much better than Pop art Pollock and Smith were.As I've gotten older,Pollock and Smith have been recognized , but often for all the wrong reasons.(like Van Gogh was , for the story, about his life and romantic ideas about him cutting off his ear, they became famous for the oddity, the methods of working). But art is not about that. It's the end result that makes an artist great. It's what hey do, not why or how they do it.But what the public responds to is the flukiness of an artist. (e are flukey by nature, I think , it is inherent in artists, that is in the real artists. Who come by their strangeness quite unintentionally.
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