Charity Baker
Charity Baker, 'Midsommar', 2023, oil on canvas, 163 x 188cm
Charity Baker makes large scale paintings about light and dark, seeking to reveal the poetry of the two. This exploration often exploits the viewer's experience of interior and exterior space. Scale is crucial to Charity’s work in order to highlight that tension between object and desire. Using oil paint the work emits an organic warmth and highlights a new earthy realism. These paintings originate from science, art, and technology. Originally trained as an architect, Charity learned to engineer space, light and human emotion simultaneously into a new form, which is carried on through her painting practice.
Charity Baker is a painter based in Brooklyn, New York. Formally trained in architecture she received her BARH at Pratt Institute and her M.F.A. from the New York Studio School.
Baker is the recipient of several awards including the Mercedes Matter/Ambassador Middendorf Prize, the Hohenberg Travel Grant, and the Jance Chace Scholarship; residencies at ART CAKE in Sunset Park Brooklyn (currently); ILC at Caernarfon Wales, UK (2023); AIR at the New York Studio School (2021-2024); and Chautauqua Institute, NY (2019).
Publications include Karen Wilkin, “For Your Collection”, Fosnot Gallery; The Wales Art Review; Art Maze Magazine; She Curates Gallery; Art in Res; NYC Photographers On Painters; Chautauqua Daily; Pittsburgh Tribune; The Caterpillar (UK). Baker's work has been shown most notably at San Francisco Art Institute; Richard Gray Gallery; New York Academy of Art; Millersville University; Delphian Gallery; Sam and Adele Golden Foundation; Nancy Margolis Gallery; Vardan Gallery; Pratt Institute (Brooklyn); Hampden Gallery UMASS; Fowler-Kellogg Art Center (Chautauqua Institute); Art at King’s Oak (PA).
Charity Baker’s work is represented by Vardan Gallery in LA and Nancy Margolis Gallery in NYC, and resides in collections worldwide.