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The current show at Zhulong Gallery is not something that I’d typically write about; I rarely write about painting (I tend to focus on media-based and performance work).
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Jimmy Baker (b. 1980 Dover, Ohio) received a BFA from the
Columbus College of Art and Design (2002) and an MFA from the
University of Cincinnati (2004). Selected solo exhibitions include
Remote Viewing, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (2011);
Sentinel, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, Calif. (2010); Event
Horizon, New Galerie de France, Paris (2010); Civil Dusk, Foxy
Production, New York, N.Y. (2008); LISTE, Foxy Production, Basel,
Switzerland (2008); Selected group exhibitions include The Library
of Babel In and Out of Place, Project Space 176, London (2010);
Macrocosm, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, Calif. (2008);
Uncoordinated, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (2008);
Face Forward: Portraiture in Contemporary Art, Columbia University,
New York, N.Y. (2008). His work has been featured in the Los
Angeles Times, Technnikart, NY Arts, Art US, Artforum.com, Artnet,
and K48 Magazine. He is represented by Foxy Production
in New York, Roberts and
Tilton in Los Angeles and New Galerie de
France in Paris.
Jimmy Baker lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Jimmy Baker’s work fuses art historical conventions with the digital age. Baker creates modern landscapes and portraits by inverting custom and using unusual subjects. His sculptures use found objects in combination with video and sound. His use of resin over oil gives his landscape paintings a thick veil through which they must be viewed. Traditional oval portraits pit history against modern culture, as tradition and subject collide in the dark frames. Baker pushes even further by combining iPods and cell phone footage with more traditional mediums. Baker’s desolate, icy landscapes may leave viewers with a chill as his work often serenely depicts war, loneliness and loss.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
