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An example of work by Lucy Baker
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Part of a movement called "New New Painters," Lucy Baker is a self-styled independent and rejects many of the prevalent trends in contemporary art such as cultural criticism and questioning of gender and identity. Stylistically she is committed to Abstraction, saying it "is the most fertile approach today. Since the invention of the camera there is no need to paint realistically, although I do both abstraction and realism---realism for the sake of recording events is no longer important. I paint realistically for my own pleasure." (Sykorova)
The "New News" painters work with a confidence merely in the value and autonomy of aesthetic experience, and they are not afraid to explore their own souls. She, like the others in the movement, uses custom-made reflective paints and advanced gels.
The big introductory exhibition of the "New News" was at the Shippee Gallery in New York in the late 1980s.
Lucy Baker was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts and earned a Certificate of Welding at Platt Technical College in Milford, Connecticut and a BVA from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.
Sources include:
Ken Carpenter, 'Artists Groups: What's New', "Art in America", July 1999
Natalie Sykorova, Curator, "New New Painters", National Gallery in Prague, 2002 |
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