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Conversations on Color and Abstraction

September 20, 2015, 3:56 pm
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Martha Rea Baker has delivered the final two paintings for the upcoming exhibit at Karan Ruhlen Gallery which opens Friday, September 25, 2015 with an artist reception from 5-7 pm.

                       “Conversations on Color and Abstraction” 

Like the previous paintings, Dordogne I, II, and III, these abstracts posted below were inspired by travels to the French Dordogne.  The artist first visited this region in 2000 on an art travel trip and returned in April of 2014 with her husband to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. This area of France is rich with history, gourmet food and wine, chateau-studded limestone cliffs and most importantly, prehistoric cave art. In the paintings posted below, Martha has captured the essence of the landscape with abstract references to the blue of the Dordogne River, grey and white limestone cliffs and shapes and symbols found in the region.

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Dordogne Revisited I———-60″ x 48″———-Oil/Cold Wax on Panel

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Dordogne Revisited II———-60″ x 48″———-Oil/Cold Wax on Panel 


Filed under: From the Studio, Gallery News, Upcoming Events Tagged: 2014 Canyon Road art shows, Abstract, abstract art, Conversations on color and Abstraction, Dordogne, oversized abstract paintings, Santa Fe artist, Santa Fe gallery, Santa Fe Summer of Color, travel as inspiration
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New Work for Brown’s Fine Art

October 26, 2015, 1:47 pm
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Two new acrylic paintings have recently been shipped to Brown’s Fine Art in Jackson, MS, Martha Rea Baker’s long time gallery.

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Chocolate Shop—-63″ x 48″—-Acrylic on Canvas

Perhaps the colors of Autumn inspired these two new paintings.

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Coffee Break—-36″ x 60″—-Acrylic on Canvas


Filed under: From the Studio Tagged: abstract acrylic, abstract art, acrylic on canvas, Brown, Brown's Fine Art, Brown's Fine Art and Framing, browns, colors of Autumn, creams, Fall colors, Jackson MS gallery, Martha Rea Baker, Santa Fe artist, tans
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Albuquerque Museum Exhibit

October 26, 2015, 2:35 pm
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The 25th Anniversary Miniatures & More Exhibit benefiting the Albuquerque Art Museum on Saturday, October 24th, 2015 was, once again, a huge success. Over one hundred artists entered miniature paintings and sculptures and twelve artists were invited to exhibit one large piece each. The jury committee chose Martha Rea Baker’s oil and cold wax painting, Dusk.

The following artist statement accompanied Baker’s painting installed in the museum:

“The concept of  “Time” has been an ongoing theme in my work for many years–the passage of time and its effects on our natural world. Whether depicting chronological time, marking passage of hours days and seasons or an ancient age glimpsed through excavation, the painting process of adding, subtracting and careful editing is a metaphor for life’s timeline.

The painting, Dusk references that hour at the end of the day when activities are winding down. Through many layers of oil paint mixed with cold wax medium, scraped back and incised to discover what lies beneath, glimpses of the day are revealed.”

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Dusk 60″ x 36″ Oil/Cold Wax

We are pleased to to announce that Dusk sold at auction with 40% of the proceeds benefiting programs of the Albuquerque Art Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico.


Filed under: Artist News, From the Studio, Reviews Tagged: abstract art, Albuquerque Art Museum, Martha Rea Baker, Miniatures & More, Museum show, Oil/ cold wax on canvas, Santa Fe artist
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SANTA FE ARTISTS’ MEDICAL FUND

November 20, 2015, 7:43 am
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Santa Fe Artists’ Medical Fund provides financial support to professional artists living and working in Santa Fe County who have medical needs but cannot afford treatment or prescriptions.

Announcing the 2015 Santa Fe Artist’ Medical Fund Silent Auction, Sunday, December 13, 4 to 7PM, Blue Rain Gallery

For the third year Martha Rea Baker has been invited to create a 6″ x 6″ painting for the silent auction to benefit fellow artists. Gemini, encaustic/mixed media on cradled panel is this year’s donation.

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Filed under: Artist News, Gallery News Tagged: Blue Rain Gallery, encaustic, Encaustic/Mixed Media, Martha Rea Baker, Santa Fe Artists' Medical Fund, Santa Fe exhibitions 2015

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Kerrville Acrylics Completed

February 12, 2015, 2:52 pm
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Martha Rea Baker has completed three of the paintings started during the 2015 Hill Country Arts Foundation retreat. These have been delivered to Karan Ruhlen Gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, NM.

The finished pieces, inspired by Martha’s October travels to Spain, are posted below. A charming white village along the Costa del Sol and the vibrant colors and sounds of Malaga are abstractly rendered.

Pequeno Pueble Blanco----40" x 30"----Acrylic on Panel

Pequeno Pueblo Blanco—-40″ x 30″—-Acrylic on Panel

Colores de Malaga V----30" x 30"----Acrylic on Panel

Colores de Malaga V—-30″ x 30″—-Acrylic on Panel

Colores de Malaga VI----30"x 30"----Acrylic on Panel

Colores de Malaga VI—-30″x 30″—-Acrylic on Panel


Filed under: From the Studio, Gallery News Tagged: Costa del Sol, Hill Country Arts Foundation, Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Malaga inspirations, Martha Rea Baker, memories of Costa del Sol, travel inspiration
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SANTA FE ARTISTS’ MEDICAL FUND

November 20, 2015, 7:43 am
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Santa Fe Artists’ Medical Fund provides financial support to professional artists living and working in Santa Fe County who have medical needs but cannot afford treatment or prescriptions.

Announcing the 2015 Santa Fe Artist’ Medical Fund Silent Auction, Sunday, December 13, 4 to 7PM, Blue Rain Gallery

For the third year Martha Rea Baker has been invited to create a 6″ x 6″ painting for the silent auction to benefit fellow artists. Gemini, encaustic/mixed media on cradled panel is this year’s donation.

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Filed under: Artist News, Gallery News Tagged: Blue Rain Gallery, encaustic, Encaustic/Mixed Media, Martha Rea Baker, Santa Fe Artists' Medical Fund, Santa Fe exhibitions 2015

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Miniatures for the Holidays!

December 11, 2015, 9:51 am
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Karan Ruhlen Gallery received four 6″ square miniature paintings from Martha Rea Baker. The first pair shown below is encaustic on cradled panel.

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Haiku IV

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Haiku V

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The second set of miniatures is created with oil paint mixed with cold wax medium.

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Jardin I

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Jardin II


Filed under: From the Studio, Gallery News Tagged: abstract art, Canyon Road gallery, encaustic, encaustic on panel, Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Martha Rea Baker, miniature paintings, miniatures, oil/cold wax on panel, Santa Fe artist, Santa Fe gallery
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Hill Country Arts Foundation 2016

January 25, 2016, 3:14 pm
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Martha Rea Baker has returned from her annual painting retreat at the HCAF in Ingram, TX where she joined sixteen other artists in the beautiful Texas Hill Country. These ten days of uninterrupted studio time are a valuable creative genesis each year for the artist – a time to experiment without distractions. Working a bit smaller this year on 30″ x 30″ canvases, Martha completed the triptych below:  Reflections I, II & III

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The Hill Country Arts Foundation presented an exhibit of the seventeen AWOL – Artists Without Limits – painters in the beautiful Duncan-McAshan Gallery with a well-attended opening reception on January 9.Following the retreat this year Martha spent an extra week in Dallas, TX viewing the Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art, visiting friends, collectors and various galleries and attending an art exchange party with several acclaimed Dallas artists. The first three weeks of January have provided much inspiration for an exciting 2016.

Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots is the largest survey of the artist’s black paintings ever assembled. It offers critical new scholarship on this understudied yet pivotal period in the artist’s career and provides radical new insights into Pollock’s practice. With more than 70 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints, the exhibition first introduces audiences to Pollock’s work via a selection of his classic drip paintings made between 1947 and 1950. These works serve to contextualize the radical departure represented by the black paintings, a series of black enamel paintings that Pollock created between 1951 and 1953. An unprecedented 31 black paintings are included in the DMA presentation. Exhibition works from the height of the artist’s celebrity set against his lesser known paintings offers the opportunity to appreciate Pollock’s broader ambitions as an artist, and to better understand the importance of the “blind spots” in his practice.

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Filed under: Artist News, From the Studio Tagged: abstract acrylic, abstract art, AWOL, Brown's Fine Art, Canyon Road gallery, Hill Country Arts Foundation, Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Martha Rea Baker, Ruhlen-Owen Contemporary, square format, Texas Hill Country, travel as inspiration, travel inspiration
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Hill Country Triptych delivered to Ruhlen-Owen Contemporary

February 18, 2016, 10:52 am
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New Work for Brown’s Fine Art

April 8, 2016, 7:53 am
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Martha Rea Baker has been busy in the studio working on requested large acrylics for Allison Brown Simmons in  Jackson, MS. With an eye on the collector, the gallery staff continues to request light neutrals in cream, white and grey, accented with a hint of color. Spring, a time of renewal and regeneration, is the perfect inspiration for this palette.

Cafe au Lait

Cafe au Lait        60″ x 36″       Acrylic on Canvas

Spring Song

Spring Song       60″ x 48″      Acrylic on Canvas


Filed under: From the Studio Tagged: abstract acrylic, abstract art, Brown's Fine Art, Brown's Fine Art and Framing, Martha Rea Baker, soft palette, Spring Song
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Art & Antiques May Issue

May 1, 2016, 10:31 am
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Abstract Painting

May 9, 2016, 12:58 pm
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The Butterfly Effect (detail)                                                                        Martha Rea Baker

Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.        -Wassily Kandinsky-


Filed under: From the Studio Tagged: abstract art, abstract painting, Brown's Fine Art, Canyon Road gallery, Kandinsky on abstract art, Martha Rea Baker, Ruhlen-Owen Contemporary, Santa Fe artist

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Encaustics for Ruhlen – Owen Contemporary

May 19, 2016, 9:38 am
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Inspired by Poetry

Haiku VI and Haiku VII have been delivered to Ruhlen – Owen Contemporary in Santa Fe, NM. Each paintings measures 24″ x 24″ x 2″— encaustic on cradled panel.

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Winter solitude                                                         The snow falls falls/

in a world of one color                                            as I watch the snow

the sound of wind                                                    I am walking/     

              Basho Matsuo                                          it cannot be otherwise

                                                                                          Teneda Santoka                                        


Filed under: From the Studio, Gallery News Tagged: abstract art, Basho Matsuo, Canyon Road gallery, Encaustic paintings, Haiku, inspired by poetry, Martha Rea Baker, Ruhlen-Owen Contemporary, Santa Fe artist, Winter paintings
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Encaustics shipped to Brown’s Fine Art

May 19, 2016, 10:24 am
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Martha Rea Baker’s poured encaustics on paper are being shown in a new exhibit at Brown’s Fine Art in Jackson, MS, opening Tuesday, May 24. 2016.

It’s not all Black and White 

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Ebb and Flow                11″ x 15″ each                Encaustic on Paper

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Gray on Gray                  11″ x 15″ each                  Encaustic on Paper


Filed under: From the Studio, Gallery News, Upcoming Events Tagged: abstract art, Black and White, Black/White/Gray, Brown's Fine Art and Framing, Brown's Fine Art- Jackson MS, Encaustic on paper, Encaustic paintings, It's not all Black and White, Martha Rea Baker, Poured Encaustics
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Practicing Pouring

June 10, 2016, 8:41 am
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Santa Fe artist, Martha Rea Baker, is experimenting with pouring encaustic wax onto panels. This technique achieves a translucent and fluid composition.

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Ebb and Flow       24″ x 6″ x 2″ each        Encaustic/mixed media

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A New Day          40″ x 30″ x 2″          Encaustic/mixed media

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A New Day II          40″ x 30″ x 20″          Encaustic/mixed media

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Nesting          12″ x 12″x 2″ each          Encaustic/mixed media

 

 

 

 

 


Filed under: From the Studio Tagged: Canyon Road gallery, diptych, Martha Rea Baker, poured encaustic paintings, Poured wax on panel, Ruhlen-Owen Contemporary, Santa Fe artist, Santa Fe summer, triptych
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The Butterfly Effect II

June 26, 2016, 9:06 am
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Richard Diebenkorn-Notes to myself on painting

July 24, 2016, 2:07 pm
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  1. Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or not come later. It may be a valuable delusion.
  2. The pretty initial position which falls short of completeness is not to be valued – except as a stimulus for further moves.
  3. Do search. But in order to find other than what is searched for.
  4. Use and respond to the initial fresh qualities but consider them absolutely expendable.
  5. Don’t “discover” a subject – of any kind.
  6. Somehow don’t be bored – but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential.
  7. Mistakes can’t be erased but they move you from your present position.
  8. Keep thinking about Pollyanna.
  9. Tolerate chaos.
  10. Be careful only in a perverse way.

Filed under: From the Studio Tagged: abstract art, Canyon Road gallery, Food for thought, Martha Rea Baker, Notes to myself on painting, Richard Diebenkorn, Santa Fe artist, Studio notes, Word of advice
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Excavation IV

July 26, 2016, 1:40 pm
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Martha Rea Baker Solo Exhibit

July 26, 2016, 2:02 pm
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Recently Announced: RUHLEN – OWEN CONTEMPORARY will feature MARTHA REA BAKER in a solo exhibition in their Canyon Road gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

Martha Rea Baker – Mixed Media

September 16 – 29, 2016

Opening artist reception:  Friday, September 16, 5 – 7pm

Baker will be showing her abstract paintings in both encaustic and oil/cold wax.

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Filed under: From the Studio, Gallery News, Upcoming Events Tagged: abstract art, Art, Canyon Road gallery, encaustic, Martha Rea Baker, oil/cold wax on panel, Ruhlen-Owen Contemporary, Santa Fe artist, Solo show
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Encaustic Diptych

August 27, 2016, 7:40 am
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“It’s not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It’s more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.” – Robert Motherwell

Motherwell’s quote describes the painting process of Santa Fe, NM artist, Martha Rea Baker. Her abstract paintings go through many stages during their creation and arrive at the finished state through the addition, subtraction and careful editing of information.

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Desert Rhythms      24″ x 36″      Encaustic on two panels

This encaustic diptych will be shown in Baker’s upcoming solo exhibit “Journey”, at Ruhlen – Owen Contemporary in Santa Fe, NM – Sept 16 – 29, 2016.


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