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.