Exquisite Elegance at Work in Claire Anna Baker's Paintings

Though far too large to have been made with a single movement, each stroke is a vision of lightness and spontaneity. It 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.