Splitting Twilight, a new exhibition from New York-based painter Kristin Baker, opens November 5 at Deitch Projects’ Wooster Street location in New York. Baker, who notoriously focuses her paintings on car racing, presents landscape painting with a modernist twist for her third exhibition with Deitch Projects.
Using layers of acrylic paint built up to form two dimensional surfaces shapes are made not by paintbrush but through tape, which when ripped away leaves overlapping silhouettes. Baker then uses scraping tools to reveal hidden layers of paint leaving grooves and tufts that make the surface look more like a collage than a painted canvas.
Splitting Twilight, which runs through December 19, uses Baker’s self- described mechanical, accidental, harmonious, raw and untamed technique to look at confusion between the natural and artificial in classic landscape painting by colliding the two with blasts of unnatural color.
