Constantly seeking embodiment, grounded-ness. Like the present, the body seems in a constant state of escape; fleeting, transient, in motion, hollowing out, leaving behinds its marks, traces, impressions, odors, oils, stains…. Figures embracing, entangling, mingling, entwining, blocks of color kissing, caressing… soft, tender, quiet, moments.
Indulgences of pleasure commonly reserved, hidden, kept secret. Privacy cloaks us in mystery. Not quite erotic, but liminal, on the precipice. All relationships are ambiguously disorienting. We collapse. We merge. We bleed. I am constantly attracted to and creating images of touch, attempting to foster the critical space of emotion. My most recent body of work is all about the fragment and its combination with other fragments in the hope of invoking relation.
These works take systems, the grid or matrix of weaving and the history of painting for example, and screw with both systems by conjoining them to create a vivacious result. These works steadfastly pursue tactility and embodiment, the experience of self in relation to other, and intimacy revealed. Having consistently pursued figuration in my practice, these works become more abstracted into shapes and colors, obscured by pattern and layering, complicated through material difference, and cut into to offer revealing points to see through.
Casey Baden b. Presently, Baden is the co-founder of an artist-run space and arts fabrication shop called Full Service Creative, and the developing community fiber studio, Textile Resource LA. The Hopper Prize. Artist Statement. Like the present, the body seems in a constant state of escape; fleeting, transient, in motion, hollowing out, leaving behinds its marks, traces, impressions, odors, oils, stains… Figures embracing, entangling, mingling, entwining, blocks of color kissing, caressing… soft, tender, quiet, moments.
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