Burn After Feeling
New Works by Aaron Robert Baker
January 15-February 13, 2023
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1
Burn After Feeling
Ink, colored pencil and acrylic on Stonehenge paper mounted to a cradled panel
12 x 12 in.
13 x 13 in. as framed
2025
$1000
2
Sad Candles, Lots of Melting Wax and a Question Mark
Ink, gouache, graphite and colored pencil on Bristol paper
11 x 14 in.
16 x 20 in. as framed
2024
$400
3
Birth, Um…Death, Thank You!
Ink and acrylic on Stonehenge paper mounted to a cradled panel
12 x 12 in.
13 x 13 in. as framed
2025
$1000
4
Sad Guys, Ghost Smoke, Bricks and Flowers
Ink, acrylic, graphite and colored pencil on Stonehenge paper
14 x 17 in.
20 x 24 in. as framed
2025
$700
5
The Joyful Futility of Life
Ink, gouache, acrylic and colored pencil on Stonehenge paper mounted to a cradled panel
8 x 8 in.
9 x 9 in. as framed
2024
$800
6
Small Head (Softer Than Shadows, Quicker Than Flies)
Ink, gouache, acrylic and colored pencil on Stonehenge paper mounted to a cradled panel
8 x 8 in.
9 x 9 in. as framed
2024
$800
7
Small Head (Have You Come to Evict Me?)
Ink, gouache, acrylic and colored pencil on Stonehenge paper mounted to a cradled panel
8 x 8 in.
9 x 9 in. as framed
2024
$800
8
Small Head (Have You Come to Destroy Me?)
Ink, gouache, acrylic and colored pencil on Stonehenge paper mounted to a cradled panel
8 x 8 in.
9 x 9 in. as framed
2024
$800
9
Mourning, Fleeing and Celebratory Candles
Ink, graphite and colored pencil on Stonehenge paper
14 x 17 in.
20 x 24 in. as framed
2024
$600
10
Hope Springs Eternal
Ink and acrylic on Stonehenge paper mounted to a cradled panel
12 x 12 in.
13 x 13 in. as framed
2024
$1000
11
Candle Faces, Mustache Buildings, Pods and Leaves
Ink, acrylic, colored pencil and graphite on Stonehenge paper
11 x 14 in.
16 x 20 in. as framed
2025
$400
12
Touched by the Hand of Dog
Ink and acrylic on Stonehenge paper mounted to a cradled panel
12 x 12 in.
13 x 13 in. as framed
2025
$1000
13
Head (These Little Statements Are Mere Replacements)
Ink and acrylic on Stonehenge paper
10.75 x 13.75 in.
13.25 x 16.75 in. as framed
2024
$1200
14
Head (Let Every Flower Bloom)
Ink and acrylic on Stonehenge paper mounted to a cradled panel
16 x 16 in.
17.5 x 17.5 in. as framed
2024
$1600
15
Head (Happy the Man)
Ink and acrylic on Stonehenge paper
10.8 x 14 in.
14.25 x 17.25 in. as framed
2023
$1200
16
Head (It’s Our Lot in Life)
Ink and acrylic on Stonehenge paper
10.75 x 13.75 in.
14.25 x 17.25 in. as framed
2023
$1200
17
Head (The Krampus Among Us)
Ink and acrylic on Stonehenge paper mounted to a cradled panel
16 x 16 in.
17.5 x 17.5 in. as framed
2024
$1600
18
Head (Hey, Boo)
Ink and acrylic on Stonehenge paper
10.75 x 13.75 in.
14.25 x 17.25 in. as framed
2023
$1200
19
Sad and Happy Candles
Ink, graphite and colored pencil on Bristol paper
11 x 14 in.
16 x 20 in. as framed
2023
$350
20
Candles Eyes, Flea Girl and Sad Guy
Acrylic, ink, colored pencil and graphite on Stonehenge
11 x 14 in.
16 x 20 in. as framed
2025
$500
21
Ghosts (Sausages, Snowmen, Flames and Paper Sacks)
Ink, graphite and colored pencil on Bristol paper
11 x 14 in.
16 x 20 in. as framed
2025
$400
22
The Tree Remembers What the Axe Forgets
Ink, acrylic, colored pencil and graphite on Stonehenge paper
11 x 14 in.
16 x 20 in. as framed
2025
$500
23
Wizard Buildings, Sad Pipe Candle, Other Candles and a Ghost House
Ink, acrylic and colored pencil on Bristol paper
11 x 14 in.
16 x 20 in. as framed
2024
$400
24
Building Heads, Flowers and Pipes
Acrylic, ink, colored pencil and graphite on Stonehenge
11 x 14 in.
16 x 20 in. as framed
2025
$500
25
Candle Friends Contemplating the Brevity of Life
Ink, graphite and colored pencil on Bristol paper
11 x 14 in.
16 x 20 in. as framed
2023
$350
26
Dreaming of Flea Girl
Ink, acrylic and graphite on Stonehenge paper
11 x 14 in.
16 x 20 in. as framed
2025
$500
About the Artist
Aaron Robert Baker is a Chicago-based artist and independent curator. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Art in America, Hi-Fructose and New American Painters.
Born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, Baker received his BFA from The University of North Texas and his MFA from The University of Nevada Las Vegas, where he studied under influential art critic Dave Hickey. When he was in the second grade, his teacher told his parents that he had drawn an impressive cheeseburger and that they should enroll him in art classes. Baker has been an artist ever since.
Artist Statement
My work explores the symmetry between beauty and awkwardness, nature and artifice, happiness and despair, the pleasant and the pathetic. Transformation and anthropomorphization interest me, as does our ability to turn any combination of shapes into a reflection of ourselves and our own humanity.
I enjoy whimsy and existential unease and like to depict a world where architectural forms and anthropomorphic objects express a human vulnerability. My characters lament, but also embrace, the fleeting nature of life.
In my drawings, structures liquefy, faces emerge from brick and mortar and candles take on expressions of agony, joy or contemplation. I use buildings, flames and organic forms to explore impermanence, identity and emotional expression.
Burn After Feeling is a celebration of the role that drawing plays in my life. It has been my life-long companion, my safe space, my antagonist and my greatest strategy for making sense of, and ultimately finding the humor in, this world.
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