BAKERBREW

Statement

BakerBrew is composed of Maddie Baker and Ella Brew, two multimedia artists who met while studying at Bennington College. They operate at the intersection of sculpture and design, drawing on technical backgrounds in ceramics, painting, animation, and sewing.

Their collaboration is defined by shared interests in image systems, infrastructure, and collection.

BakerBrew’s materials consist of gathered fragments of structural and visual systems found in nature, technology, and city. Their practice in the studio involves interventions–imitation, reordering, distortion, destruction—acts that allow for both a disruption of the power embedded within these gathered systems and an exploration of the aesthetic. BakerBrew seeks an innate beauty in these everyday and/or mass-produced sources as a form of survival within the increasingly inescapable constructed world.

GlogauAIR Project

This project draws inspiration from Berlin’s temporally layered architecture and discarded printed matter. Functional city elements, such as sewer grates, bricks, and exhaust covers, are chosen as initial forms from which various sculptural interventions can occur. A collection of scavenged visual material (old instructional manuals, textbooks, and disintegrating flyers) becomes a usable image supply.

The use of shadows and light design as additional materials establishes a new order for what is to be seen—drawing attention to the elements of function one walks past every day and encouraging new habits of uncovering and reconsideration.

Installation and Sculpture

CV Summary

Education

• 2022 BFAS in Sculpture: Bennington College – Vermont, USA

Exhibitions

• BREW
• 2019-2023 Group Show: Plains Art Museum – Fargo ND
• Group Show: Salem Art Works Gallery – Salem NY
• Group Show: Usdan Gallery – Bennington VT
• Group Graduates Show: Pamela Salisbury Gallery – Hudson NY
• 2018 Solo Exhibition: Taller la Chicharra – Oaxaca, MX
• BAKER
• 2022 Group Show: Usdan Gallery, Bennington VT
• 2017 Group Show: Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD

Residency

• BREW
• 2022 Salem Art Works – Salem, NY, 2 mo.

Experience

• BREW

• 2023-2024 Ceramic Teacher: Clayers Collective, Violaine Toth Ceramic, Sculpture Club Berlin
• 2018-2022 Artist Assistant: Clyde Petersen, Willard Boepple, Alan Altamirano

• BAKER
• 2018-2023 Fabricator: Maya Brenner Designs, Alchemilla, Rebekah Brooks
• Artist Assistant: Lauren Bon (Metabolic Studio), Mauro Giaconi, Alejandra Seeber, Jonathan Entler Design

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