Jennifer Baker
Jesus Saves, Truckers and Travelers Welcome, 2019
Monotype on okawara paper (triptych)
18 x 38"

Artist Statement
Jennifer Baker's paintings and monoprints explore a sense of place and the history and memory of its inhabitants. From Jennifer's 30-year project of documenting the changes in her Philadelphia neighborhood of Northern Liberties, to her images of a long-burning mine fire in Centralia, PA, and her recent explorations in western Pennsylvania made during an exhibition at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Loretto, PA, she has chronicled the human effects of irrevocable change on landscape and streetscape. This triptych documents the Chickaree Union Church in Johnstown, PA. The title is from the neon sign in front of the church, which is situated in the small space between two highways, leading into the city of Johnstown.

Artist Bio

Jennifer Baker is a painter and sculptor working in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia since 1978. She attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts) as well as the Art Students League in New York. Baker has exhibited at Art 101 and Pleiades Galleries in New York and Projects Gallery, Nexus Gallery, F.A.N. Gallery, the Crane Arts Building and The Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia. She has received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship for Works on Paper and had a Challenge Exhibit at Fleisher Art Memorial. She has also been a finalist for a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. In 2018, Baker received a Leeway Foundation Window of Opportunity Grant and in 2010 she received a Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant. In 2014, Baker curated an exhibit about the history of Northern Liberties "From World's Workshop to Hipster Mecca and the People in Between" for the Philadelphia History Museum. She is the visual art consultant for "Supper, People on the Move," a multimedia performance piece by Silvana Cardell. Baker created "Portraits of People on the Move," a companion exhibit of stories and photographs of Philadelphia-area immigrants. After opening in Philadelphia, "Supper" and "Portraits" toured throughout the country as well as in the Dominican Republic. In 2019, Baker had her first solo museum exhibition at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Loretto, PA. Her most recent solo exhibit was at Rosemont College's Patricia Nugent Gallery in November 2023. Baker has been a member of InLiquid since 2013.

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