Los Angeles artist Hilary Baker creates simplistic and geometric paintings that are not only sophisticated, but truly beautiful. She incorporates vivid color, texture, and geometric shapes to highlight urban landscapes as a source of beauty. Baker describes her work by saying that she "didn’t consciously become a landscape painter. But over time came to appreciate that random elements encountered in modern life have an intrinsic elegance. For example, rubble piled by the side of the highway, designs created by tumbled, quarried blocks of stone, or the beauty of a giant boulder, isolated by time and space.... navigates the elusive snaking line between abstraction and figuration". This idea links each of her paintings to another.
I've posted a few of my favorite pieces below:
Vermont Avenue. 2014.
Acrylic on canvas. 12 x 12 inches.
Acrylic on canvas. 12 x 12 inches.
The La Salle. 2013.
Acrylic on canvas. 12 x 12 inches.
Acrylic on canvas. 12 x 12 inches.
Artesia. 2014.
Acrylic on canvas. 40 x 36 inches.
Acrylic on canvas. 40 x 36 inches.
Outpost. 2014.
Acrylic on canvas. 54 x 72 inches.
Acrylic on canvas. 54 x 72 inches.
Citrine (3). 2012.
Acrylic on canvas. 9 x 10 inches.
Acrylic on canvas. 9 x 10 inches.
Edendale. 2014.
Acrylic on canvas. 40 x 36 inches.
Acrylic on canvas. 40 x 36 inches.
The Great Carbuncle (after Hawthorne) 2012.
Acrylic on canvas. 72 x 60 inches
Acrylic on canvas. 72 x 60 inches
To see more of Hilary's work check out her Website
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