{"id":717,"date":"2008-11-07T20:36:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T01:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2008\/11\/07\/jimmy-bakercivil-duskfoxy-productions-new-space\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T14:35:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T19:35:45","slug":"jimmy-bakercivil-duskfoxy-productions-new-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2008\/11\/07\/jimmy-bakercivil-duskfoxy-productions-new-space\/","title":{"rendered":"~JIMMY BAKER\/CIVIL DUSK\/FOXY PRODUCTION’S NEW SPACE !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JIMMY<\/p>\n

JIMMY BAKER – CIVIL DUST \/ OCT 17 – NOV 15, 2008
\nFOXY PRODUCTION – 623 WEST 27th St – CHELSEA – NYC<\/p>\n

MICHAEL GILLESPIE and JOHN THOMSON of FOXY PRODUCTION CELEBRATE their new (larger !!) space – a couple of doors over on 27th St – or just a little more west – on Chelsea’s frontier street !! – their 2nd solo show o work by JIMMY BAKER – called – CIVIL DUST, an exhibit of highly charged oil paintings encased in a heavy shiny translucent resin coating.<\/p>\n

from the gallery press release:
\n“In CIVIL DUSK – the period after the sun has edged below the horizon and objects are still distinguishable – Baker uses cloaks of fog, smoke, or dust, and disorienting inversions and combinations to make the known feel uncanny. Baker explores American landscape painting’s myths of expansion and freedom, and its conjuring of sentiment and the sublime.
\nHe relates its strategies to those of the contemporary media, refracting scenes gleaned from television and the Internet through the lens of Romanticism. His new paintings, (and some manipulated\/collaged digital prints), exhibit a dramatic high gloss sheen that is at once seductive and distancing; they act as both screens and mirrors.”
\nfor more info, individual works & installation shots, see: JIMMY BAKER\/FOXY PRODUCTION WEBSITE <\/a><\/p>\n

PHOTOS FROM THE OPENING RECEPTION, FRIDAY OCT 17, 2008<\/p>\n

\"Jimmy
\nthe new and larger, FOXY PRODUCTION GALLERY, a couple of doors west, at 623 West 27th Street. <\/p>\n

\"Jimmy
\nJIMMY BAKER and MICHAEL GILLESPIE<\/p>\n

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\nJIMMY BAKER and his wife, JIL BAKER, an architect at Cincinnati, Ohio firm – MICHAEL SCHUSTER ASSOCIATES.
\n(one of their specialties is designing state of the art fire stations.) <\/p>\n

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\non the left: JIMMY BAKER, ‘AID’ 2008, and at right, JIMMY BAKER, ‘AZADI’, 2008<\/p>\n

\"Jimmy
\na closer look: JIMMY BAKER – ‘AID’ and ‘AZADI’.
\nboth pieces are archival digital prints on white lucite, 24 x 18 in. Edition of 4 + 1 AP<\/p>\n

\"Jimmy
\ndetail, JIMMY BAKER, ‘AID’.<\/p>\n

\"Jimmy
\ndetail, JIMMY BAKER, ‘AZADI’.<\/p>\n

\"Jimmy
\nwho’s – the girl in the vintage poncho – in front of the JIMMY BAKER work ?
\nnone other than MELISSA SCHERRER, the tarot card reader from the recent ‘HOW TO PREDICT THE FUTURE’
\npresentation at LISA COOLEY !! <\/p>\n

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\noh oh the pieces are beginning to fit together – MIKE PARE and MELISSA SCHERRER,
\nwandering over from the ATM celebration, next door !!!<\/p>\n

\"JIMMY
\nthey were standing in front of this stunning painting – JIMMY BAKER, ‘5TH OF NOVEMBER’, 2008
\ndone in oil, and with a heavy coat of epoxy resin on canvas over panel, 38 x 30 in.<\/p>\n

\"JIMMY
\nFOXY PRODUCTION CO-DIRECTOR, JOHN THOMSON chats with a guest.
\nbehind them, JIMMY BAKER’S painting, ‘VIEW FROM CCTV’, 2008<\/p>\n

\"JIMMY
\nJIMMY BAKER, ‘VIEW FROM CCTV’, 2008, oi and resin on canvas over panel.
\n60 x 45 in.<\/p>\n

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\ndetail, JIMMY BAKER, ‘VIEW FROM CCTV’.<\/p>\n

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\ngallerist JOHN CONNELLY strolls over, from next door.
\non the wall, JIMMY BAKER painting, ‘SEVENTH SISTER’, 2008.<\/p>\n

\"JIMMY
\nJIMMY BAKER, ‘ENRICHED’, 2008, archival digital print on white lucite.
\n18 x 24 in, Edition of 4 + 1 AP<\/p>\n

\"JIMMY
\nartist SCOTT CALHOUN, (and husband of gallerist LISA COOLEY) examines JIMMY BAKER’S,
\n‘FOLDING BORDER’, 2008, an archival digital print. <\/p>\n

\"JIMMY
\nan inverted landscape !! the borders of PAKISTAN and AFGHANISTAN !!
\nJIMMY BAKER, ‘FOLDING BORDER’, 208, archival digital print on white lucite,
\n24 x 18 in. Edition of 4 + 1 AP<\/p>\n

\"Jimmy
\ndetail, top – JIMMY BAKER, ‘FOLDING LANDSCAPE’.<\/p>\n

\"Jimmy
\ndetail, bottom – JIMMY BAKER, ‘FOLDING LANDSCAPE’.
\nPHOTOS: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n

here’s an early archival photo of JIMMY BAKER, from his 1st showing at FOXY PRODUCTION, a group show: <\/p>\n

\"Jimmy
\nJIMMY BAKER, in an early group exhibit at FOXY PRODUCTION, FALL 2004 !!
\nthis photo first was published on artnet, see: artnet\/YOUTH RULES IN THE BIG APPLE-FALL 2004<\/a>
\nPHOTO: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n

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JIMMY BAKER – CIVIL DUST \/ OCT 17 – NOV 15, 2008 FOXY PRODUCTION – 623 WEST 27th St – CHELSEA – NYC MICHAEL GILLESPIE and JOHN THOMSON of FOXY PRODUCTION CELEBRATE their new (larger !!) space – a couple of doors over on 27th St – or just a little more west – on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}