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

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Studio Shot #2

10 Monday Jul 2017

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Studio Tres Picos, the studio of Martha Rea Baker – paintings completed and in progress

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Martha Rea Baker

08 Saturday Jul 2017

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Martha Rea Baker surrounded by paintings soon to be delivered to Owen Contemporary in Santa Fe, NM for the July 21st opening of the two-person exhibit Surfaces and Shapes. 

 

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Owen Contemporary presents: Martha Rea Baker & Bret Price Shapes and Surfaces

30 Sunday Apr 2017

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MARTHA REA BAKER | BRET PRICE
Fri, Jul 21, 2017 5:00pm Thu, Aug 3, 2017 5:00pm
Shapes and Surfaces
Martha Rea Baker and Bret Price

SANTA FE, NM. Owen Contemporary is delighted to announce Shapes and Surfaces, a duet exhibition featuring new works by New Mexico abstract painter Martha Rea Baker and California sculptor Bret Price.

The surface is the viewer’s introduction to each painting created by Martha Rea Baker. The texture, color, shapes, and value all may spark an idea, convey a message or evoke an emotion. However, the surface also begs the question, “What lies below?” In each painting a history is built through multiple layers of paint application, mark making and drawing, removal and veiling of information. It is the artist’s intent that the surface of the painting will draw the viewer in to discover that the work is more than skin deep.

Baker’s new body of work continues to be land-based, inspired by the textures, colors and light of the Southwest landscape–ancient landforms affected by the passage of time —- natural weathering and human intervention.

Born in Corsicana, Texas and raised in Clinton, Mississippi, Baker attended the University of Mississippi and received her BA from University of California, Santa Barbara. She continued her art studies at the University of Dallas and Collin College in Texas as well as European studies. Since 2006 Baker has resided in Santa Fe where she has become a well-established abstract artist.

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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.

Quiet Conversation Diptych    40

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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New Oil/Cold Wax paintings for Karan Ruhlen Gallery

31 Wednesday Dec 2014

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abstract painting inspired by landscape, Canyon Road gallery, Chronos, Costa del Sol, diptych, Karan Ruhlen, Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Malaga, memories of Costa del Sol, NM, oil/cold wax paintings, passage of time as theme, Santa Fe, Spain, White Villages

Two new oil/cold wax paintings have been delivered to Karan Ruhlen Gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, NM. 

Revisiting the sought-after “Chronos Series” from 2013, Martha has created a diptych on cradled panels. (Please visit the Oil/Cold Wax Gallery page for more pieces in this series.) An ongoing series, the concept of “time”, explores the sequential passage of time and its effects on our natural environment.

Chronos, Variation 1----36" x 36"----Oil/Cold Wax on Panel

Chronos, Variation 1—-36″ x 36″—-Oil/Cold Wax on Panel

The artist has also finished a major oil/cold wax piece on canvas, measuring 74″ x 66″. White Village, Costa del Sol, was inspired by Martha’s recent travels to Malaga, Spain where she visited several of the famous white villages along the Mediterranean coast. In this large-scale painting, Martha has captured the colors, the unique light quality, the shapes and essence of the hillside coastal town.

White Village, Costa del Sol----76" x 66"----Oil/Cold Wax on Canvas

White Village, Costa del Sol—-74″ x 66″—-Oil/Cold Wax on Canvas

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