Gallery Talk & Book Signing with Hilary Baker

Join us for a special gallery walkthrough of the Wildling Museum’s new fall exhibition Wildlife on the Edge led by artist Hilary Baker on Sunday, November 6th, 3 – 4 p.m. Learn more about the inspiration for her ongoing Predators series and enjoy the opportunity to hear firsthand stories behind the works on view.

Following the gallery talk will be a book signing of Baker’s recently published book Hilary Baker: Predators and Other L.A. Stories (2021), which features a collection of essays on her work and photos of many of the paintings featured in the exhibition.

Wildlife on the Edge: Hilary Baker is on view from October 8, 2022 – March 6, 2023 at the Wildling Museum.fbest

 

About Hilary Baker

A Los Angeles native, Hilary Baker grew up among Hollywood’s film and music industry professionals. She spent her childhood roaming the hills around her home in the canyons, hunting for animal bones and avoiding the occasional snake. Her subjects, ranging from baseball and wildlife to Los Angeles’ history and architecture, are depicted in her signature graphic style. Known for her dissonant palette, her paintings hint at anxiety and mordant wit with unblinking clarity. In her film short, Ecce Cat, she paid homage to the sinister undercurrents of mid-century animation. Baker’s world is quarried from the strange, poetic, and darkly humorous with the confidence of a painter who is in the game for the long run.

Baker received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her Master of Fine Arts from the Otis Art Institute (now Otis College of Art & Design). She has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, including The Skulptur Projekt Münster and the Institut Franco-Americain, and has been awarded residencies at the Pont-Aven School of Art, the Ucross Foundation, Art Omi, and the Yaddo and MacDowell art colonies. Her paintings have been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Peripheral Vision, Art and Cake, Artillery, and New American Paintings. Her work is included in numerous public collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, the Crocker Art Museum, the Broad Art Foundation, Temple University, and the University of Southern California.

Baker’s curatorial projects include organizing the exhibition Archaeology, and co-curating Sexy: Sensual Abstraction in California, 1950’s -1990’s, and Blind Courier: 9 Artists and Their Notions of Place. Her work can be seen at r d f a, Los Angeles. She lives in Ojai, California, with her husband, the writer Philip DiGiacomo, in the shadow of the Topatopa Mountains.

Learn more about Hilary Baker and her work at www.hilarybaker.com and on Instagram at @hilarybakerstudio.