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 My name is Terry Baker. Rake is my dog-name. Everyone should have a dog-name. Born in Richmond, Va, into a traditional working class southern milieu. 1961-1971 Travelled the US as Navy brat. Early influences: the Beatles, Biblical paintings and illustrations, Leonardo da Vinci, Mickey Mouse Club, Mighty Mouse, Beany and Cecil, Rocky and Bullwinkle, my dad Paul Baker (amazing pen doodles of planes attacking Navy destroyers). During adolescence spent four pivotal years in Hawaii, discovering youth culture, surf culture, Krishna, and psychedelics. 1972-1980 Teenage years in exile, central Virginia - oils, pen and ink, collage. Turned on to Robert Crumb, Rick Griffin, and other SF underground comix artists, as well as the artists of the Fillmore poster scene. Influences: Mati Klarwein, Dali, Escher, communist propaganda images from China and Vietnam, underground press, Grateful Dead, LSD. Moved to NYC in 1980, spent the next twenty years there, starting out as gutter punk drunk, later painted on canvas, Upper East Side, Lower East Side, Chelsea - shows at Yale University and in Barcelona Spain - received Pollock/Krasner Award in 1990. Influences: early Christian and Hindu iconography, deKooning, Francis Bacon, Max Beckmann, 1950s Picasso, Lee Krasner, Susan Rothenberg, Pat Steir, Beat writers, hardcore punk scene, cannabis and caffeine. Discovered the computer as tool in late 1994, became a web head, worked as corporate designer/site builder during heady Silicon Alley dot.com days. good money, no sleep. Summer 2000 - dot.com crash - no more job, still no sleep. left NYC, moved to California, settling near a small town in Mendocino county, where I live off-the-grid on 66 acres of redwood forest with my 8 dogs and cats. Winter 2005 - devastating personal tragedy resulting in an explosion of art work. Begin life as tripped-out mountain hermit, leaving the valley only for supplies and to watch the whales at the Mendocino Headlands. Bliss follows as I merge with the creatures and forest around me and drift further from societal affairs. Bom Shiva! Summer 2006 - healing from winter's events. Work is still pouring out. The hermit thing got old - I need connection. Old friend Bubba Jenkins moves out here from New York. Fall 2006 - form band with Bubba and some old and new friends. Bubba Beyond is born. Spring, summer 2007 - constant work on CD. Winter 2008-9 - Art Mode strikes hard. Continuation of narratives - erotic and artist studio themes - and new digital abstract work based on scraps of my paintings. All-over series, termite series, Dionysus series. Summer 2009 - CD, Land of a Thousand Doses, released July 12. |
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2009: Studio GallerySF, San Francisco, Ca Delicious Group show 2007: Turchin Center, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC Halpert Biennial Group show Purchase Award for The Wallflower 2007: Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, Canada Spring Salon '07 Group show 2007: South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA TechArt III Group show Third Place 2007: Energy Gallery 2-3-d-6 Group show 2006: Studio GallerySF, San Francisco, Ca tiny Group show 2006: Studio GallerySF, San Francisco, Ca Mischief Group show 2006: Art Guild of Sonoma, Sonoma, Ca Third Annual Erotic Art Show Group show 2006: projekt30.com July juried show 2003: Tangerine Gallery, Ukiah, Ca Group show 2002: Bakery Cafe, Mendocino, Ca The Ordeal of St Doofus Solo show 1998: Savoy Magazine Talking Heads: Digital Works Featured artist 1996: Times Square Lobby Gallery, New York City Ageless Art Group show 1996: East/West Gallery, New York City Straight From The Heart, Group Show 1995: Cono Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Works on Paper, Group show 1992: White Columns Gallery, New York City Little Women/Little Men, (markers of diminished lives) Group show 1992: Fulton Gallery, New York City Straight from the Heart, curated by GMHC Group show 1990: Hispano-20, Cartoon Galeria, Barcelona, Spain "New Yorkers in Barcelona" Group show 1990: 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York City 14th Annual Small Works Show, curated by Ivan C. Karp Group show 1988: Siliman College Art Gallery, Yale University Solo show 1985: Youth Counseling League Benefit Show Puck Building, New York City Group show |
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1990: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Painting Grant 1991: Art Matters, Inc. Painting Grant 1992: Ruth Chenven Foundation Painting Grant  my beloved Zion Valley (click image for more photos) back to top |
