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Burning Out

Opening: Friday, February 15, 6-8 pm
Exhibition Runs: February 15 – March 24, 2019

LMAK Gallery
298 Grand Street
New York, NY 10002

LMAK Gallery is pleased to present Burning Out, Jimmy Baker’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Presenting eight new process-heavy paintings that combine the conventions of oil painting with digital collage, UV printing, and vinyl masking. The acidic color palettes and viscous surfaces create a vibratory space for imagery to dissolve into dense compositions that hint toward psychoactive experiences. Burning Outexposes the grit of a cultural fixation with pleasure.

The immediacy of gratification is cautiously surveyed in the reference and research behind these new paintings. As the Midwest has become a hotbed of opioid and heroin abuse, Baker is contrasting the validity of the lived experience with the virtual, and how this is reflected upon. Having witnessed a variety of effects, both first hand and at large, Baker visually investigates the reaches of this endemic. Mixing found photographs with personal photography; these image “clippings” and references are collapsed into an amoral picture plane within painting. The bright and blissful palette forms an overabundance of exuberance, yet it is built on a looming delirium of consequences. Baker views painting with a historically uncanny ability to translate anything into pleasure through formalization. He continues this tradition, while implicating himself and our compulsions in this moment.

For press materials or inquiries about the work please contact the gallery at 212 255 9707 or [email protected]

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Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Install shot from Burning Out at LMAK Gallery New York
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Install shot from Burning Out at LMAK Gallery New York
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Install shot from Burning Out at LMAK Gallery New York
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Install shot from Burning Out at LMAK Gallery New York
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Double Walker painting
Double Walker; Oil, aerosol, and digital print on canvas over panel, 56" x 46", 2019
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Your Pleasure Centers painting
Your Pleasure Centers; Oil, aerosol, and digital print on canvas. 56" x 46", 2018
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Here, and Now What painting
Here, and Now What; Oil, aerosol, and digital print on canvas over panel. 46" x 38", 2019
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Burning Out painting
Burning Out; Oil, aerosol and digital print on canvas over panel, 56" x 46", 2018
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : The Politics of Gardening 1 painting
Politics of Gardening 1; Oil, aerosol, and digital print on canvas over panel. 22" x 22", 2019
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Politics of Gardening 2 painting
Politics of Gardening 2; Oil, aerosol, and digital print on canvas over panel. 22" x 22", 2019
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Politics of Gardening 3 painting
Politics of Gardening 3; Oil, aerosol, and digital print on canvas over panel. 22" x 22", 2019
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Burden of Being (to Richard and Elizabeth)
Burden of Being (to Richard and Elizabeth); Oil, aerosol and digital print on canvas over panel, 56" x 46", 2019
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Double Walker painting detail
(DETAIL) Double Walker; 56" x 46", 2019
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Double Walker painting detail
(DETAIL) Double Walker; 56" x 46", 2019
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Double Walker painting detail
(DETAIL) Double Walker; 56" x 46", 2019
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Your Pleasure Centers painting detail
(DETAIL) Your Pleasure Centers; 56" x 46", 2018
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Here, and Now What painting detail
(DETAIL) Here, and Now What; 46" x 38", 2019
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Here, and Now What painting detail
(DETAIL) Here, and Now What; 46" x 38", 2019
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Burning Out painting detail
(DETAIL) Burning Out; 56" x 46", 2018
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Politics of Gardening 3 detail
(DETAIL) Politics of Gardening 3; 22" x 22", 2019
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : Burden of Being detail
(DETAIL) Burden of Being (to Richard and Elizabeth); 56" x 46", 2019
Jimmy Baker, American artist, painting, digital printing : process gif uv printing
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