Teresa Baker, Converging, 2023. Spray paint, yarn, buffalo hide and willow on artificial turf. 67 1/2 x 114 inches. © Teresa Baker. Tia Collection. Image courtesy of the artist and de boer, Los Angeles, California; Photo Jacob Phillip.
Teresa Baker, Mapping Out the Land, 2020. Corn husk, yarn, spray paint and canvas on artificial turf. 98 x 66 inches. Courtesy the artist & de boer Los Angeles & Antwerp. Photo: Jacob Phillip.
Teresa Baker, Field Notes, 2022. Willow, spray paint and yarn on artificial turf. 74 x 120 inches. Gochman Family Collection, New York, NY. Courtesy the artist & de boer Los Angeles & Antwerp. Photo: Jacob Phillip.
Teresa Baker, Twenty minutes to sunset, 2023. Spray paint, acrylic, buckskin, artificial sinew and yarn on artificial turf. 105 x 118 inches. Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas. Courtesy the artist & de boer Los Angeles & Antwerp. Photo: Jacob Phillip.

Teresa Baker

Somewhere Between Earth and Sky

Sep 5, 2025 – Feb 8, 2026

Teresa Baker (b. 1985, Watford City, North Dakota) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles, CA, and an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes in the Great Plains. The most comprehensive presentation of her work to date, this solo exhibition includes paintings, bronze sculptures, woven baskets, and works on paper.

Baker is celebrated for large-scale abstract paintings on shaped pieces of artificial turf. In these unique works, she brushes and sprays on acrylic paint, and applies linear designs with natural and synthetic fiber yarns. She also incorporates materials like willow, buffalo and deer hide, tree bark, corn husks, and natural and artificial sinew into her compositions. These dynamic and colorful works often resemble vast landscapes, inviting viewers to imagine prairie vistas and bird’s-eye views of grasslands. Drawing from her Native American Mandan/Hidatsa heritage, Baker’s singular vision of shape, color, and texture reveals abstraction’s narrative capacities. Through her work, Baker invigorates and expands European and American modern painting histories, offering a visionary approach to abstraction.

Teresa Baker: Somewhere Between Earth and Sky is organized for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Dean Daderko, Ferring Foundation Chief Curator, with support from Grace Early, Exhibitions Assistant.

SPONSORS

This exhibition is generously supported in part by Jane and Robert Clark, Shereen and Michael Fischer, Penny Pennington and Michael Fidler, and the Whitaker Foundation.

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