Picasso’s CMYK Period, 2018 - 2023
Aluminum printing plates, emulsion, ink, solvent
70 x 68.25 in.
“At some point, probably in the Swinging Sixties, Pablo Picasso said something along the lines of “What good are computers? They can only give you answers.” I included this quote in President: “Why?” — my 2018 limited-edition tabloid newspaper — to emphasize the questioning nature that is essential to making art. In Picasso’s CMYK Period, the influential artist's words play hide and seek on the printing plates amid primary-colored amalgams of abstract expressionist smears, pop-art Benday dots, and Fluxus happenstance, continuing my lifelong obsession with mixing visuals and text: how words appear and what they say.”
Pocket MonstersTM Strobe, 2000
Gouache on color laser copy and collage
16 3/4 x 10 7/8 in.
God, What An Ignoble End, 2000
Gouache and pencil on color laser copy and barrier tape
16 3/8 x 10 3/4 in.
Fat Men and Little Boys, 1999
Acrylic, gouache and oil on color laser copy and collage
16 1/4 x 10 3/4 in.
And Where a Flabby Devil, 2000
Gouache, oil and pencil on color laser copy and collage
16 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.
Will Teach Us All How To Play The Blues, 1999
Gouache, pencil, oil and circuit sticker on color laser copy
17 x 11 in.
R.C. BAKER
Lives and Works in New York
ARTIST BIO
R.C. Baker is an artist and writer who lives and works in the Bronx, New York. He is a New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellow and his artwork has been exhibited at Baahng Gallery, Zone: Contemporary Art, the Drawing Center, White Columns, the Center for Book Arts, and other venues in New York City, as well as internationally. He is also the Editor in Chief of The Village Voice and has written hundreds of reviews and numerous features and cover stories on art, popular culture, and politics. His essays have appeared on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times, in Performing Arts Journal, in exhibition catalogues, and in other publications. In 2016 he was awarded a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for Short-Form Writing.
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