Clocks, noon and midnight. Acrylic on MDF. 12 in.

Swing by the house to see Chris Baker’s work in progress in the studio. Then at 6:30, you’re invited into the living room for a presentation by the artist. Beverages and snacks will be served on the porch.

Artist Bio

Chris Baker is a graphic designer and artist based in Holland, Michigan, where he lives with his wife and daughter. He earned his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2023. Playing on the line between Graphic Design and Art, his work shifts between the external and internal, the representation of self and others. The focus of the work becomes language, translation, culture, and learning. He has designed books, brands, and websites for many artists, as well as galleries, museums, and non-profits. This sort of design work informs the art he participates in. With a focus on graphic language, he works with an attention to symbols, like letter forms and numbers, which are then pushed toward abstraction through defamiliarization. Subsequently topics like memory, record, time and space arise. He works in a variety of mediums from painting to printmaking through code based practices like javascript, html, and css. His work can be found in the gift shop at many art museums around the world.