I was interested in learning some new language to talk about what is so captivating about Charity Baker’s drawings and paintings. Charity gave me a list of her teachers, Barbara Grossman was one of them. Barbara Grossman’s artworks are impressionistic, abstracted, full of color and pattern. Instead of drawing with focal points and perspective, she …

Charity Lynn Baker is an artist living and working in New York. She’s been drawing a lot lately. Her dream-like narrative scenes sometimes remind me of Marc Chagall’s, only Charity’s are more grounded. Formally trained in architecture, when asked about her compositions, she remarked that she likes humans and she likes geometry. Her drawings are …

This V. Note includes a selection of recent paintings from Charity Baker’s November show at Catherine Fosnot Gallery.  There are several large paintings of figures in the landscape and some small plein air landscapes featuring scenes from Pennsylvania, New York, and sunsets on the Hudson River. Charity Baker is a recent graduate from the New …