RICHARD BAKER
HEY!! LOOK WHAT I FOUND!!!
August 1 - 31, 2024
With some special additions from the archives:
We are extremely happy to present the 27th solo exhibition of Richard Baker with our gallery. Our personal relationship precedes even our professional one, which began in 1992. Through the years Richard has exhibited oil paintings, sculpture, installations and more, but the core body of work that he has become identified with has been his loving depictions of favorite books. In our current online show, we can travel with Richard through some of his favorite used book stores and browse the piles and shelves alongside with him.
Richard uses the medium of gouache to paint these exquisite homages. Gouache can be particularly tricky paint to master, but Richard has made it into an almost second-nature intuitive tool with which he honors these jewels of design. It is quite extraordinary to see the way in which he handles the medium almost like oil paint, making it viscous and tactile.
Richard Baker's work is in countless public and private collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Sarasota Springs, NY, and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Awards include those from the New England Foundation for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. 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, and 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 has conducted workshops. Baker taught for eleven years at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He currently resides with his wife Victoria in Cambridge, MA.
Richard uses the medium of gouache to paint these exquisite homages. Gouache can be particularly tricky paint to master, but Richard has made it into an almost second-nature intuitive tool with which he honors these jewels of design. It is quite extraordinary to see the way in which he handles the medium almost like oil paint, making it viscous and tactile.
Richard Baker's work is in countless public and private collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Sarasota Springs, NY, and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Awards include those from the New England Foundation for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. 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, and 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 has conducted workshops. Baker taught for eleven years at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He currently resides with his wife Victoria in Cambridge, MA.