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The Art of Regeneration
Written By: Zach Claxton - Highlands-Cashiers Art League | Issue: 2016/08 - August
The Art League of Highlands-Cashiers is privileged to have Kristina Rose Baker, the Bascom’s Community Artist in Residence, as speaker at its August meeting. Her presentation will be in the Bascom Atrium at 5:00 P.M., Monday, August 29.
Ms. Baker received her Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, from Rhode Island School of Design in 2015, preceded by attendance at the Laguna College of Art and Design in 2009 and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Early College Program in 2010.
Ms. Baker is the recipient of the Anderson Ranch Brooks Fellowship, the Gamblin Paint Award, and the Florence Leif Award for Women Fellowship. She has appeared in more than 20 exhibitions. Her resume includes experience as an apprentice, intern, and teacher, often concentrating on children’s art education and appreciation. She was recently employed at the Asheville Art Museum. This summer she taught 6-14-year-olds during Summer Art Camps, the annual program co-sponsored by The Bascom and the Art League.
Ms. Baker is primarily an oil painter involved in explorations with color. She adds gravel, rocks, sand, dirt, wax, and fibers into her paint in order to think of a two-dimensional material as a sculptural medium.
“My work explores the experience of my physical body searching for a sense of integration with the landscape,” she says. “I bring my experiences from nature into the studio through memories and collected objects. I then create an image through veils of paint that evoke the feelings the landscape imparted on me.”
Her artwork explores her curiosity surrounding the processes of accumulation, decomposition, and regeneration within nature.
Everyone is invited to attend her presentation in The Bascom Atrium at 5:00 P.M., Monday, August 29. Social time begins at 4:30 P.M. This event is free and is an excellent opportunity to meet and hear a talented and accomplished artist. For more information about the Art League of Highlands-Cashiers, visit artleaguehighlands-cashiers.com.
