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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. Played guitar in iconic punk band Frenzy.

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. Played guitar in I Love Everybody with Stephen Danziger, Maggie Estep, Julia Murphy and Pat Place. Kept web art journal terrapindream from 1996 to 2002.
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 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.

Spring 2008 - Begin making music combining electronic and analog instruments.

Spring 2011 - LovedUp, the sonic manifestation of my general art project, is born. Psychedelic and funky dance music. Please give a listen. Blessings.








Exhibitions:

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
Awards and Grants:

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)

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