About Britany Baker

Britany attended Xavier University in Cincinnati on full scholarship and received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in drawing and painting. Since then she has worked extensively in scenic design/painting for theater and television, mural painting, illustration and fine art. She has been a designer and creative director in media and agencies and is currently the creative director for Wingspan/RPM. Her studio is located in Louisville, KY.

Artist statement

In my art practice I explore themes related to the body and to living forms. I’m interested in how things swell and recede, grow and die, and in the boundaries separating things from one another: form from atmosphere/medium, us from not-us, living from dead, present from past/future.

I’m also exploring how capturing movement on a 2D surface can be used to record time. Processes initiated in nature and governed by mathematics reveal how nature expands and contracts. I want to flatten these processes into images that capture that initial energy/expansion as well as the inevitable dissipation/evaporation.

My work relies heavily on automatic drawing and I think of the making of artwork as a conversation I am having with my materials as they reveal what is in their nature, and I reveal what is in mine.