Cliff City Solar Balloons
Cliff City Solar Balloons is inspired by an idea of possible cities in the future. Thoughts of how city dwellers might harness energy for their collective survival without impacting the natural environment. I created the painting using a grisaille technique intentionally limited to mixtures of black, blue, and white. This appealed to me as a way to express the city as a sculptural object hewn from the cliffside.
General
36 x 48 x 1
$750.00
Art Medium(s)
Oil paint on canvas
About The Artist
Born in Los Angeles, Stephanie Walz Baker has lived in California her entire life. Stephanie’s grandfather coached her to draw as a child. Her single mother, a struggling artist, taught Stephanie to use paints and brushes. Early artistic influences in West Los Angeles were Twentieth Century Fox movie back lots in Century City. Acres of decaying architecture abandoned in fields that underscored for the artist, a unique experience of interconnected and overlapping time frames.
Artist's Statement
Quasi-utopian cities hewn from cliffside rock. Imagery of people, trees, cities, flora, and fauna inspire theatrical entanglements in my artwork of human culture and the natural world. Layers of paint application on my canvases develop forms of artistic vision united by an eccentric geometry of drawn line. Broad social commentary is the mindscape conflating personal experience and discriminatory histories of ageism and artistic erasure as the focal point of a pending future.
