The 6pm Pre-Meeting:
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Upcoming Meetings:
June 19: Members’ Work
July 17: Carole Beadle, fiber sculpture

VIRTUAL MEETING
MAY 15, 2024 At 7pm
GUEST SPEAKER:
JOELL BAXTER
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“My installations chase fleeting visions at the intersection of color and space. Built out of layers of printed, woven, and cut paper, the stacks of open weave reveal the layers beneath, forming complex structures of overlapping shapes and colors that pixelate and waver. Geometric compositions repeat within and across works at different scales and hues, referencing the ease of these shifts in digital space but enacted painstakingly by hand. Within each strip of paper, the printed colors are always in motion, graduating from one fully saturated hue to its opposite. Laid directly on floors and walls or hung like spectral screens, these works visually shift even as the viewer stays in place.

I draw from color theory, the science of vision, the history of weaving, and the mutability of pixels. Inherently porous, weaving creates an uneasy equilibrium between presence and absence, material and non-material. The interlocking warp and weft of each panel forms a grid, recalling the rigorous, generative language of minimalism, while the saturated, shifting colors recall the flickering light of pixelated screens.The work functions as a sort of net or pixilated plane that catches and disperses molecules of light.”

- Joell Baxter

Joell Baxter is a Brooklyn-based artist and teaching-artist. She has been awarded residencies at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; the Lower East Side Printshop; and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. Exhibitions include  Field Projects, New York, NY; the Marsh Gallery at Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN; and the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, CA. In 2024 she will complete a permanent commission as part of NYC Department of Cultural Affairs’ Public Art for Public Schools. Baxter is also a visual arts teaching artist in the New York City public schools through Partnership with Children, NYC. She holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago.