[Each stroke] fills the canvas with motion more than form or weight, with a flicker like that of a darting butterfly or a thin, fluttering scrap of silk... Baker executes her characters with the studied assurance of a Japanese calligraphy master, balancing ease and control to produce forms that are simultaneously casual and perfected.
— Holly Myers, LA Times, April 12, 2013
Baker’s visual language creates a shared experience of absorption. She communicates the landscape as continuation of self, transmitting our shared, helpless love of Earth... its possible that paintings like hers are the most honest eco-criticism we are capable of.
— Patti Trimble, Moskowitz Bayse 'Suspended Wire' Exhibition Essay, September 4, 2017
Visceral and transcendent by turns... these pieces also stand as the culminating step in an alchemical process of distillation and intense direct observation.
— Andy Brumer, ArtScene, April 1, 2013
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Must See
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Suspended Wire
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The Horizon Exists in Our Own Bodies
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Exquisite Elegance at Work in Claire Anna Baker's Paintings
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Claire Anna Baker
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The Color of Life
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