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!

Halfway there, living on a prayer?

I don't really listen to Bon Jovi, so don't judge me by my title choice. Some days I feel like I should be more religious so I can pray to be able to get all these tasks done by their deadlines. Anyways, I got half of my large pinup girl painting done and and half of my slaughterhouse piece chalked out. The painting has proven to be a tedious, time consuming project and the slaughterhouse one allows me to unwind and release a little. I'm happy to be working with two different extremes that compliment each other so well. Here's the updates:


I worked on the slaughterhouse a bit more, this photo was taking prior to the introduction of water and charcoal everywhere approach. I also have some mockups of my website in the works, so hopefully that shall be taken care of soon as well.

Website Examples

AH! So I need to throw together a website...fast for a general mockup. Trying to pull together some things I like about other artist's websites. Two I were looking at were James Jean (http://www.jamesjean.com/) and Henrik Tamm (http://www.henriktamm.com/home.htm). I like the splash pages each provide, Jean has a random work that pops up each time while Henrik has a multi-image spliced into one. The menu bars are both clean and have a 'back' access while you are viewing work or a next/previous option as you scan through the galleries.

Another website I found is merely for lightbox purposes. Feerik (http://www.feerik-art.com/) uses the lightbox program to show his work and I love the separate screen that appears over the site and dims the surrounding.