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Martha Rea Baker

~ Santa Fe Artist working in Oil/Cold Wax, Acrylic and Encaustic

Martha Rea Baker

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Surfaces and Shapes

09 Friday Jun 2017

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SURFACES and SHAPES

 July 21 – August 3, 2017 – Owen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM.

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MARTHA REA BAKER has completed new work for the upcoming exhibit in oil/cold wax on panel and acrylic on canvas. 

DAnubei,ii,iii

Danube I, II, III         30″ x 30″ each         Oil/cold wax on panel

Canyonlands III

Canyonlands III      48″ x 60″      Acrylic mixed media on canvas

Butterfly effect

The Butterfly Effect III    30″ x 30″    Acrylic mixed media on canvas

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Contemplation IV, V, VI, VII, VIII   (studio shot)

24″ x 6″, 8″, 6′, 12″, 6″       Oil/cold wax on Panel

Watch for more work to be posted soon—-

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A New Year!

01 Sunday Jan 2017

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abstract art, Art, contemporary art, encaustic, HCAF, Hill Country Arts Foundation, Hot Wax, inspiration, Japanese Garden, Martha Rea Baker, New Year, Owen Contemporary, red berries, red leaves, Studio Tres Picos, travel

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Japanese Garden III                 30″ x 30″                  Encaustic on Panel

With this last painting completed in 2016 we send warm wishes for a creative and productive new year! Martha Rea Baker will be returning to the Texas Hill Country for her twelvth annual January painting retreat. The Hill Country Arts Foundation provides an inspirational setting for both visual and performing arts and is an excellent resource for professional artists and students, alike.

Stay tuned — we will post work completed during the retreat which culminates with an exhibit in the Duncan-McAshan Visual Arts Center on the HCAF campus.

Cheers, Studio Tres Picos and Martha Rea Baker

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Small Works for the Holidays

04 Sunday Dec 2016

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Abstract, abstraction, Art, Canyon Road gallery, Encaustic paintings, Holiday gifts, Martha Rea Baker, Owen Contemporary, Santa Fe art gallery, Santa Fe artist, Small encaustics, small works, Timothy Owen

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Small Works for the Holidays!

Owen Contemporary

Reception December 9th,  5-7pm
In conjunction with the Santa Fe Film Festival
Canyon Road Art Crawl

Treat yourself or someone you love to an original piece of art! 
Several of our artists have created unique gems for the holidays.
Please click on an image to view our website for all available works and sizes!

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Martha Rea Baker, Desert Rhythms 15, 16, 17, 6×6″ each, encaustic on panel

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Martha Rea Baker Solo Exhibit

26 Tuesday Jul 2016

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Recently Announced: RUHLEN – OWEN CONTEMPORARY will feature MARTHA REA BAKER in a solo exhibition in their Canyon Road gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

Martha Rea Baker – Mixed Media

September 16 – 29, 2016

Opening artist reception:  Friday, September 16, 5 – 7pm

Baker will be showing her abstract paintings in both encaustic and oil/cold wax.

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Encaustics shipped to Brown’s Fine Art

19 Thursday May 2016

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Martha Rea Baker’s poured encaustics on paper are being shown in a new exhibit at Brown’s Fine Art in Jackson, MS, opening Tuesday, May 24. 2016.

It’s not all Black and White 

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Ebb and Flow                11″ x 15″ each                Encaustic on Paper

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Gray on Gray                  11″ x 15″ each                  Encaustic on Paper

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Art & Antiques May Issue

01 Sunday May 2016

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Martha Rea Baker is featured in the May issue of Arts & Antiques magazine announcing the upcoming exhibit, “Transitions” opening at Ruhlen – Owen Contemporary on May 27, 2016.

Art & Antiques

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Conversations on Color and Abstraction

20 Sunday Sep 2015

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2014 Canyon Road art shows, Abstract, abstract art, Conversations on color and Abstraction, Dordogne, oversized abstract paintings, Santa Fe artist, Santa Fe gallery, Santa Fe Summer of Color, travel as inspiration

Martha Rea Baker has delivered the final two paintings for the upcoming exhibit at Karan Ruhlen Gallery which opens Friday, September 25, 2015 with an artist reception from 5-7 pm.

                       “Conversations on Color and Abstraction” 

Like the previous paintings, Dordogne I, II, and III, these abstracts posted below were inspired by travels to the French Dordogne.  The artist first visited this region in 2000 on an art travel trip and returned in April of 2014 with her husband to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. This area of France is rich with history, gourmet food and wine, chateau-studded limestone cliffs and most importantly, prehistoric cave art. In the paintings posted below, Martha has captured the essence of the landscape with abstract references to the blue of the Dordogne River, grey and white limestone cliffs and shapes and symbols found in the region.

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Dordogne Revisited I———-60″ x 48″———-Oil/Cold Wax on Panel

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Dordogne Revisited II———-60″ x 48″———-Oil/Cold Wax on Panel 

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miniatures & MORE

30 Sunday Aug 2015

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Now in its 25th year, Miniatures & More is an exhibition fundraiser that provides valuable funding to The Albuquerque Museum in New Mexico while benefiting the artists whose work it features. The only “sell” exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum, Miniatures was created by – and is a program of – The Albuquerque Museum Foundation.  

A range of artists producing traditional and contemporary paintings, photographs and sculptures are selected each year through a juried process in order to provide an exceptional collection for consideration. The “& More” was added to the 2007 Miniatures exhibition. Miniatures & More 2015 features one painting each from twelve outstanding New Mexico artists.

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Dusk                                                    60″ x 36″                                            Oil/Cold Wax

We are pleased to announce that Martha Rea Baker has been selected to exhibit in the “& More” section of Miniatures & More 2015 – 25 Year Anniversary. A committee from The Museum traveled to Santa Fe, NM to visit Martha’s studio and Karan Ruhlen Gallery to make the selection shown above. This painting will be auctioned at the gala reception on Saturday, October 24, 2015 at The Albuquerque Museum.

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New Work for Karan Ruhlen Gallery’s Summer of Color

06 Thursday Aug 2015

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Martha Rea Baker has delivered new oil/cold wax paintings to Karan Ruhlen Gallery for the SUMMER OF COLOR being celebrated all around Santa Fe.

SANTA FE, NM. Karan Ruhlen Gallery presents a group exhibition The Nature of Color in conjunction with Santa Fe 2015 “Summer of Color”. Opening August 21 at Karan Ruhlen Gallery. The artists of Karan Ruhlen Gallery are known for their color sensibility and its relationship to nature. Each is diverse in their approach and interpretation of color. The artists have their own unique signature and surface quality.

Cliffhanger diptych

Cliffhanger Diptych   72″ x 60″

Dordogne III   48

Dordogne III   48″ x 36″

Red Mesa    40

Red Mesa   40″ x 30″

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Conversations on Color and Abstraction at Karan Ruhlen Gallery

01 Saturday Aug 2015

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Conversations on Color and Abstraction —  September 25, 2015

Martha Rea Baker—–Mary Long—-Daniel Phill

SANTA FE, NM. Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which exists with a degree of independence. Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art.
Who: Martha Rea Baker, Mary Long, Daniel Phill What: Exhibition of paintings When: Sept. 25 – Oct 9, 2015 Opening Reception: Friday, Sept 25th, 5-7 pm. Where: Karan Ruhlen Gallery, 225 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Visuals & Curriculum Vitae online at www.karanruhlen.com
Karan Ruhlen Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent work by three well-established abstract artists from across the country. The exhibition features New Mexico abstract painter Martha Rea Baker, Tennessee artist Mary Long and California painter Daniel Phill. The group of artists is diverse in their approach to abstraction.

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Santa Fean, Martha Rea Baker’s underlying theme in her work is time. “Its passage and its effect on nature,” she says. “I seek a time-worn look—the results of erosion, weather, and the marks of previous civilizations.” Whether depicting chronological time, marking the sequential passage of hours, days, seasons or an ancient age glimpsed through excavation, the painting process of adding, subtracting and thoughtful editing is a metaphor for life’s timeline in creating these elegant abstractions. “I’m inspired by the strata of geology exposed in canyon walls and distant vistas of the Southwest.”
In her current series Baker uses cold-wax on gessoed board, mixing pliable Dorland’s wax medium with oil pigments to create a rich and lustrous surface.

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Quiet Conversation Diptych   40″ x 60″   Baker

Mary Long was born in Ohio and has lived in Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she began working in encaustic in 2001. “I grew up near Canton, where there is a crazy-quilt patchwork of rural farms and factories. It’s a juxtaposition of architectural grayness against expanses of happy saturated colors that inspires my work to this day,” she says. Long often begins her paintings with marks drawn in oil stick, over which she applies many layers of wax combined with oil paints. In the latest work I am decompressing, exploring more of the spaces in between. They don’t simply represent topographical maps but also time and space, the painting acts as a ‘slice’ or a ‘snapshot’ of something continuous,” says Long.

Daniel Phill attended Washington State University, Pullman, and received his BFA in 1978 from the San Francisco Art Institute. He received his MFA in 1983 from Stanford University and currently lives in San Francisco. He begins each painting jumping in “with a leap of faith,” he says, that something will develop from his spontaneous application of color and texture. Phill identifies with many of the principles and techniques of Abstract Expressionism, but also relishes the ambiguity between abstraction, figuration and the illusion of space in his paintings suggest light, atmosphere and depth—a combination that makes visible Hans Hofmann’s assertion that “shapes, colors, lines, calligraphic squiggles and use of space always echo the reality found in nature—its structure rather than appearance.” He eschews the neat and formal, preferring a responsive approach.

“The gallery will be truly transformed with the energy of these three dynamic artists,” says Ruhlen.

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