Untitled, Beverly Baker, ballpoint pen on paper, 2013
Untitled, Beverly Baker, ballpoint pen on paper, 2010
Untitled, Beverly Baker, ballpoint pen on paper, 2014
Beverly Baker has drawings currently on view at the Dallas Art Fair April 9 - 12, 2015, in the New York/Paris gallery Christian Berst Art Brut booth (D4). Baker has been a prominent member of Latitude Arts in Lexington, Kentucky since its founding in 2001. Baker has shown previously at Andrew Edlin Gallery (New York), the Museum of Everything (London), La Maison Rouge (Paris), and Christian Berst Art Brut (Paris), among other venues. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Everything (London), the abcd Collection, Montreuil (France), and the Hannah Rieger Collection, Vienne (Austria).
"Beverly Baker’s drawings are created through the obsessive layering of text found in a small selection of books and magazines that she uses as reference material. The final abstract compositions generally contain only trace hints (indices indications) of their genesis in language as Baker draws continuously on the same sheet, obliterating her original words or letters with additional words, lines and color. Most of her drawings are created with ballpoint pens, colored pencils and permanent marker." - Phillip March Jones