| JAMES BAKER | |
| James Baker was born in Newport in 1937. He received his BA from Providence College and his BFA ad MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He is a Professor of Art at Providence College, where he has been teaching studio art since 1973. He has been awarded five Providence College Faculty research grants; the most recent of these was used for sabbatical travel to Germany to continue research on Joseph Beuys. Baker was guest curator at the Newport Art Museum of the exhibition Joseph Beuys: Prints and multiples in 1996. He has also been the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. His drawings were featured in John Hersey’s Blues, published by Knopf in 1987. Baker has exhibited nationally and internationally, and is represented in several museum collections in the United States.
In the nineteenth century, American landscape painting revealed the transcendental purity of a primal, natural world. Today, in the undersea landscapes of coastal New England, the same purity of experience can be found. In these places, accessible yet mysterious and alien, it is still possible to have views never seen before by anyone. |
Undersea Newport, 2000 |