Artist Teresa Baker is exhibiting alongside Mark Cowardin, Rashawn Griffin and Marie Watt in a group exhibition at Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art titled Sun Drinks White. The title of this exhibition is borrowed from a poem titled "Haiku Journey" by Indigenous writer, photographer, and scholar Kimberly Blaeser. Blaeser’s poem, written in the form of Japanese haiku, brings elements of the natural world into focus. hough their works are abstract, the artists’ deep awareness of materiality firmly grounds their work in the world. Details allude to larger ideas of nature, our connections to place, our familial bonds, and our physical beings.
Common materials found in a hardware store are transformed into poetry through the artists’ imagination. Their work has emotional resonance lent by the choice of materials that connect to deeper concepts such as the body, family, nation, and ancestral land. A whisper of shared formal gesture connects individual artworks to the works in adjoining galleries like an unseen web.
Sun Drinks White is on view from March 24 to July 30, 2023.
