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For those familiar with the artistic sensibility of Rea Baldridge, one can usually expect to be amused, challenged, or simply perplexed when viewing one of her creations. A cat playing with its prey comes to mind, in surmising the mental gymnastics she exhibits in her work.
Baldridge is an Oklahoma artist who has worked in a variety of disciplines, and her work is not easy to categorize. She is a painter, but some of her most interesting work has been rendered without a stroke. Fascinated with the "process" of culture, she has made artworks by drawing together (replicating Imperfectly), "corporations", that don't pay dividends; "products" that are not for sale; and even an a-political "political party". In concrete form, her works resemble "artifacts" left in the wake of an idea. For the last several years, her work has been focused towards, in her own words, "having a conversation with the canvas and discovering images that appear, and change, and vanish even while looking".
Reviews
The Daily Oklahoman, Jul 3, 2009
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