Teresa Baker: From Joy To Joy To Joy
de boer (Los Angeles) is pleased to present From Joy to Joy to Joy, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based Teresa Baker, her second with the gallery. Baker presents works made using artificial turf as a ground for works that reference abstract expressionist, cubist, and postminimalist movements in tune with the territories and art made by the Indigenous peoples who inspire her practice.
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. In her practice, Baker imbues innate objects with culture and identity.
Teresa Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa) B. 1985 Watford City, ND) currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Baker has had recent solo exhibitions at de boer, Los Angeles, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Pied-à-terre, San Francisco; Interface Gallery, Oakland; and Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX, Group exhibitions include Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; di Rosa, Napa, CA; Marin MoCA, Novato,CA, and Anthony Meier, Mill Valley, CA. Baker is a 2022 Joan Mitchell Fellow, a 2022 Artist-in-Residence at FOGO Islands Arts in Newfoundland, and the recipient of the 2020 Native American Fellowship for Visual Artists at the Ucross Foundation. Baker was an Artist-in-Residence at MacDowell, and a Tournesol award Artist-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts. The artist's work was recently acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2023 Baker’s work will be included in ‘Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living’ at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA the sixth iteration of the biennial exhibition.