Neglection and Affection

I knew this would happen. I have neglected the blog. Good news though, I did not fall off the face of the earth. My show with Ranna went swimmingly and it is over before I realized it was happening. I finished up my last assignment for seminar, photos will be up soon for that. Here are 2 images of the gallery space. Thank you to all who came!

Time Is Running Out!

My experiment with the shopping bags was a little lackluster. There was something I just loved so much about the bag itself and I was trying to integrate it too atistically to marry with the rest of my work and lost the general aura the original text presented. We'll see if they end up in the show or not.


Here's an older piece that may be in the show. I wanted to bring another soft, black and white piece to break up the color of all the painting that will be in the show. It's a straightforward irony, but it's on such a small piece of paper that really calls back to the calendar, pinup image.


Above is a portrait of Ed Gein's house, completing the 3-piece series for my seminar class.

Black and White flyer for our show

something about the future

Above is the second finished house which is where Dahmer stayed when he lived with his grandmother.

This is my Gacy painting showing the underlying layer of rainbow I use throughout the whole piece. To the right, was the final product, but I still have some tweaking to do. Images are now functioning on Ranna and I's ETIOLOGY website. Also, I forgot to shoot progress for this piece when I started it early on in the semester. Below is my portrait of Albert Fish:

Thesis Exhibition: ETIOLOGY

Ranna Chaudry and I have a show coming up soon! November 17-27. Opening reception is November 18! Visit the ETIOLOGY website at: http://www.tcnj.edu/~baier2 (It's still in beta so please disregard the missing information)

Gone Fishing

Been neglecting my weekly blog, shame on me. Lots to discuss! Our seminar collaborative exhibition opened a few hours ago featuring a series of found objects from which we source our inspiration. The blanket above is my submitted object. I chose it because I'm a twitchy person and tend to pick every fuzzball off the featured blanket and roll it through my fingers while I'm thinking about all the things I need to do. I've been working with the theme of perfection and imperfection, which I find right down to the very thing I sleep in.

On another note. The pinup girl I've been working on has been finished! There still needs to be touch-ups, but I'm moving on to other projects for now. I'm doing another 6ft painting of Pogo (Gacy) the clown killer on retail poster. This one will be done in watered down acrylics, focusing more on paint experimentation rather than technical precision. See my finished pinup and Gacy in progress above.

I began working on a short series for Seminar using external sourcing and postmodernism ideas. As far as postmodernism goes, I feel like anything can go. I approached it with a revisitation to architecture concept art. Rather, than focusing on precise line work, I used my tool (compressed charcoal) to mark make texture. The houses are sketched from crime scene photos of serial killer houses. I was already working with serial killer portraits for thesis and found the houses they lived and killed in to be quite interesting. There is something so eerily normal about them and decided to investigate them in my work. Here's a sketch and another house in progress below:

Too tired for clever titles.

My first show (group show) of the year just opened tonight. The install went smoothly and pictures will be up soon. Here is the progress of my current pieces. Finished the slaughterhouse and almost there with the painting!