September 05, 2003 — September 27, 2003 76 Grand Street, New York Kristin Baker is fascinated by the connection between painting and automobile racing, particularly by the contrast between accident versus control that characterizes both pursuits. She sees the racetrack as a contemporary version of the Roman coliseum, where the spectators of all social classes converge to watch the expert drivers steer their enormously expensive cars, covered with advertising, into spectacular crashes. Like the racetrack, her painting is a study in organization versus chaos. At the track, speed is both controlled and pushed to extremes. Her painting is also a study of how far to push to the extreme, how close one can get to overstimulation without an aesthetic crash. More information about: Kristin Baker Select press URL Harper\'s Bazaar