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Installation view of “Time To Be Still,” Teresa Baker’s show at Halsey McKay Gallery. COURTESY HALSEY MCKAY
Through July 31, Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton is presenting “Visible World,” an installation of contemporary painting featuring the work of Graham Collins, Cynthia Daignault, Xylor Jane, Matt Kenny, Dylan Vandenhoeck and Kemar Keanu Wynter. These six artists work in and around various traditions of painting to confound conventional notions of what happens when we look at a painting.
Also on view through July 31 is “Time To Be Still,” Teresa Baker’s first exhibition with the gallery. Baker deftly uses texture, shape, and color guided by her Mandan/Hidatsa culture to explore how identity and place can be present in innate objects. On view are two of her signature mixed-media works and three framed drawings on ledger paper. In both her large wall works and her drawing practice, Baker responds to her materials and makes decisions in relation to their inherent characteristics. Each new piece acts as a puzzle to solve, made up of clues like commercially produced artificial turf, or paper found in her late mother-in-law’s CPA ledgers.
Halsey McKay Gallery is at 79a Newtown Lane, East Hampton. Visit halseymckay.com for more details.
Staff Writer on Jul 17, 2023