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Teresa Baker: Mapping the Territory

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September 6 - October 19, 2024
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Teresa Baker, Mapping the Territory

Teresa Baker

Mapping the Territory

September 6 - October 19

 

Broadway is pleased to present Mapping the Territory, our first exhibition with Los Angeles Artist Teresa Baker (Mandan,Hidatsa, b. 1985).

 

Baker’s wall-based works are made primarily from artificial turf that is subsequently adorned with a variety of materials from acrylic paint to deerskin, yarn and willow branches.  The astroturf support is first cut into asymmetrical shapes reminiscent of animal hides and the cartographic borders suggested by the show’s title. It is precisely at this juncture of the most basic material expression of “land”, and its subsequent adornment with materials providing cultural specificity, that the work accrues meaning. The slippage between base commercial mediums and the gravity of natural ones echoes Baker’s confluence of Native tradition with those of Modernism in painting. The slyly persistent geometry of her compositions creates a productive friction with their overall abandonment of the rectilinear support. A similar tension occurs between a commitment to pure abstraction and the unavoidable suggestion of the natural world, whether it be the flat expanse of a prairie landscape or the infinite night sky. 

 

In this sense, Baker achieves a sublime beauty that is supported by a tripartite scaffold of pure form, a peculiar materiality, and an atmospheric, loosely representational approach.

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TERESA BAKER, INSTALLATION VIEW, MAPPING THE TERRITORY, BROADWAY, NY, 2024 
Works
  • Teresa Baker I'll Dig, 2024 yarn, buckskin and astroturf 76.5 x 70.5 inches
    Teresa Baker
    I'll Dig, 2024
    yarn, buckskin and astroturf
    76.5 x 70.5 inches
  • Teresa Baker Mapping The Territory, 2024 yarn, acrylic on astroturf 62 X 144 inches
    Teresa Baker
    Mapping The Territory, 2024
    yarn, acrylic on astroturf
    62 X 144 inches
  • Teresa Baker Movements Of The Land, 2024 hay bale rope, willow, acrylic, yarn on astroturf 85 x 68 inches
    Teresa Baker
    Movements Of The Land, 2024
    hay bale rope, willow, acrylic, yarn on astroturf
    85 x 68 inches
  • Teresa Baker Of This Time, 2024 acrylic, yarn, cottonwood on astroturf 58 x 46.5 inches
    Teresa Baker
    Of This Time, 2024
    acrylic, yarn, cottonwood on astroturf
    58 x 46.5 inches
  • Teresa Baker Pause, 2024 acrylic, yarn, willow on astroturf 27.5 x 30 inches
    Teresa Baker
    Pause, 2024
    acrylic, yarn, willow on astroturf
    27.5 x 30 inches
  • Teresa Baker Ripples, 2024 acrylic, yarn, willow on astroturf 54.5 x 49.5 inches
    Teresa Baker
    Ripples, 2024
    acrylic, yarn, willow on astroturf
    54.5 x 49.5 inches
  • Teresa Baker Tracing the Memory, 2024 parfleche, acrylic, artificial sinew, yarn on astroturf 84.5 x 68.75 inches
    Teresa Baker
    Tracing the Memory, 2024
    parfleche, acrylic, artificial sinew, yarn on astroturf
    84.5 x 68.75 inches
  • Teresa Baker Waking, 2024 yarn, buckskin, acrylic and canvas on astroturf 76.25 x 144.5 inches
    Teresa Baker
    Waking, 2024
    yarn, buckskin, acrylic and canvas on astroturf
    76.25 x 144.5 inches
  • Teresa Baker Echoes, 2024 acrylic, yarn, willow, artificial sinew on astroturf 37.75 x 37 inches
    Teresa Baker
    Echoes, 2024
    acrylic, yarn, willow, artificial sinew on astroturf
    37.75 x 37 inches
Press
  • Teresa Baker

    Jillian Steinhauer and Will Heinrich, New York Times, September 26, 2024
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