Allison Baker
Allison Baker
Saint Paul, Minnesota
The Work
Alison Baker brings bold color and feminist humor to her sculptures, collages and prints. When working in the Overpass Projects studio, her ColorAid collages are iterated into dynamic screen printed landscapes in editions and monotype. Surreal terrains of limp rock formations, fuzzy mounds and promising arches, these works are decorative and cheeky. Feminist humor thrives in Baker's visual language- not surprising that a gender told to “be quiet and look pretty” will take to the visually comedic. Frustrated, resigned, devoted, serviced and serving, mundane and fascinating. Baker presents ‘pink collar’ malaise wrapped in dollar store cellophane and neon colored cleaning foams. In dialogue with her other works, the skillful transformation from college to three dimensional sculpture and then back to the two dimensions in the screen printed works is a gratifying journey.
Exhibitions
Tender Vignettes: A Class Narrative, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN
Semi-Functional, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Welcome Passages, Spring/Break Art Show & Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Laundry and Landscape, Random Access Gallery, Syracuse University, NY
Cartesian//Split, Project Project, Omaha, NE
Semi-Sentient Trash, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Endophage, Center for Visual Arts, Wausau, WI
Home, 934 Gallery, Columbus, OH
Unsterile, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Contaminated, Shelter in Place Gallery, Boston, MA
Bio-Wearables: Rhetorical Gesture and Embodied Sonic Affect, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Collections
Hamline Midway Park, St Paul, MN ● Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN ● University Permanent Collection, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD ● Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MA ● Ava at the Prudential Center, Boston, MA ● Roger Williams Park and Zoo, Providence, RI
Her complete portfolio is available at https://www.allisonbaker.com/
