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 WingspanRPM. Her studio is located at Highlands Art Center 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.