Artist Teresa Baker, whose work is included in All This Soft Wild Buzzing, and artist and CCA professor Linda Geary discuss Baker's practice and her career trajectory since graduating from CCA's MFA program in 2013. Baker's work in the exhibition includes two of her signature "paintings" on Astroturf, as well as a newly commissioned outdoor bronze sculpture. This conversation will take place on October 18th from 2-3PM in Room N203.

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Teresa Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa, b.1985) currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Through a mixed media practice combining artificial and natural materials together, Baker creates abstracted landscapes that explore vast space, and how we move, see and explore within them. The materials, texture, shapes, and color relationships are guided by Baker's Mandan/Hidatsa culture to explore how identity can relate to innate objects. Baker has had recent solo exhibitions at de boer, Los Angeles, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY; Pied-à-terre, San Francisco; and Interface Gallery, Oakland. Group exhibitions include, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, and Marin MOCA, Marin, CA. Baker is a 2022 Joan Mitchell Fellow, and was an artist-in-residence at Fogo Island Arts in Newfoundland in 2022. Baker was the 2020 Native American fellow at the Ucross Foundation in Ucross, WY. She was a Tournesol Award artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA as well as an Headlands Affiliate artist in residence. Baker received her B.A. from Fordham University, and MFA from California College of the Arts.

Linda Geary has been a resident at Yaddo, Millay Colony and Art Omi.  She is the recipient of the Elizabeth Foundation Grant in Painting and the Pollock-Krasner Award. Her work has been exhibited in Bay Area Now 3 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Mills College, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and Bau Institute Otranto, Italy.  Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, ArtForum, ArtPractical, ArtWeek, KQED, Huffington Post, Portland Mercury News, Sacramento Bee, the San Jose Mercury News, SF Chronicle, and Squarecylinder. She has an upcoming mural project at SFO International Terminal in late 2020. 

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