Please join me at the opening reception of "The Diver" - at the Great Park Gallery on Sunday January 25th, from 1-3pm.
Kristina Rose Baker: The Diver presents new large-scale paintings and drawings by California-based artist Kristina Rose Baker. Drawing on over 2,500 years of art historical representations of diving, Baker re-imagines the figure in moments of suspension - between water, earth, and sky. With her distinct use of oil paint and charcoal, she captures fleeting moments between motion and stillness, presence and absence. Blending personal experiences of transformation and the ephemeral, Kristina Rose Baker: The Diver offers a visually poetic reflection on humanity's enduring relationship with water and the natural world.
Curated by Adam Sabolick
Great Park Gallery
800 Great Park Blvd., Irvine, CA
Opening Reception: January 25th, 1-3pm
Exhibition runs until April 12, 2026
Looking Back: A Retrospective of The Bascom's Artist-in-Residence Program
My painting The Sun Releases Saturn From It’s Orbit (Takotsubo), 2023 was included in the recent exhibition “Looking Back: A Retrospective of The Bascom’s Artist-in-Residence Program”. The exhibition ran from May 24 - August 2 in The Bascom’s Thompson Gallery. Installation images below. I’m very grateful to have been included!
Gathering Light at Ashton Gallery, San Diego, CA
I’m excited to announce that my painting “The Diver IV” (2024) is currently on display in Gathering Light at Ashton Gallery in San Diego. Details below:
OMA's Artist Alliance is thrilled to present 53 artworks in their sixth annual exhibition at Ashton Gallery @ Art on 30th in North Park San Diego. Selected by juror Kate Ashton, many of the artworks are loosely themed to the title, Gathering Light, creating a show that is luminous, bright, hopeful, reflective both literally and in concept, and reviving in spirit.
On display at Ashton Gallery @ Art on 30th
January 11 - February 5, 2025
4434 30th Street, San Diego CA 92116.
(619) 894-9009
Monday-Saturday 11:00am-4:00pm; closed Sundays
The Diver IV, 2024, Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 in.
More Disruption: Representational Art in Flux at the Oceanside Museum of Art
I’m ecstatic to announce my participation in “More Disruption: Representational Art in Flux”, juried by John Seed, Aleah Chapin, and Timothy Robert Smith at the Oceanside Museum of Art. The exhibition explores representational art that has been reshaped and “disrupted”—including by abstraction, web-based imagery, and socio-politcal concerns—in response to contemporary life and its challenges.
The opening reception is on Saturday, June 8th between 5-7pm. The exhibition runs until September 15th.
Read more about the exhibition on the Oceanside Museum of Art website.
The Diver, 2024, charcoal, conté, and white chalk on joined paper, 41 1/4 x 33 1/2 in.
Post-Reception- Thank you!
Thank you so much to everyone who came out to the opening reception of my solo show “Simulated Memory” at She/They Gallery! It was an awesome opening, and we had a really great turn out- it was so much fun to have the opening on the same night as the Santa Ana Art Walk. I’m very appreciative for all the friends and new faces that turned up at the gallery to see my work. Much thanks to the friends who came out for my private walk-through. The show is up by appointment until September 27th. Please contact Renée Ortiz of She/They Gallery to make an appointment.
She/They Gallery of Contemporary Womyn’s Art
@she.they.gallery_
ReneeOrtizStudios@gmail.com
"Precipice" at Santa Ana College
My body of work “Precipice” has been featured by the Santa Ana Collage Art Department for the month of October. Take a look at my latest body of work and statement on their website!
https://www.santaanacollegeartdepartment.org/kristinarosebaker
