snow.
2014Four color Lithographprint
on Hosho.edition size: 2.
size: 8" x 12"
All prints are hand printed lithographs and or woodcuts
using traditional oil based inks on ph neutral paper.
I ink each plate with one color and the colors are layered to create the image.
My current series focus on nature and overlapping interdependent
flow systems. The inherent transparent quality of japanese papers
and the translucency of oil based inks allows these layers to be visually intertwined
yet distinct.
Archive
november tree walk.
2013
Three color Lithographprint
on Hosho.
edition size: 5.
print measures 9" x 12".
Available at Telephonebooth gallery, k.c. mo. from 2013-14 Winter Invitational.
water run.
2013
Lithograph and Woodcutprint
on Kitikata.
edition size: 1.
print measures 8" x 30".
Cecilia Bakker.
Water Run feels like clouds but its macro land that tree stems reach toward. Conflicts between nostalgia and reality occur in our emotional lives as well as the current changing environmental landscape. Exhibited at Telephonebooth gallery, k.c. mo. 2013 Summer Salon(sold).
warm forest.
2012
Four color Lithograph and Woodcutprint
on Hosho.
edition size: 1.
print measures 20" x 11".
Cecilia Bakker.
Exhibited and available at Telephonebooth gallery, k.c. mo. 2012-2013 Winter Invitational, Buena Suerte a los Compañeros
forest in blues.
2012
Four color Lithograph and Woodcutprint
on Hosho.
edition size: 1.
print measures 22.5" x 12".
Cecilia Bakker.
Exhibited at auction June 1, 2013 at the KCAI Art & Design Auction (sold)
systems in yellow.
2012
Eight color Lithographprint
on Hosho.
edition size: 1.
Trhyptich measures 36" x 18".
Cecilia Bakker.
Included in H&R Block Art Space Flat File 2012. Chosen for exhibit by Gilbert Vacario, Senior Curator at Des Moines Art Center.
buried scripts.
2005
One color Woodblock with painting.
Monoprint
on Hosho.
edition size: 1.
Cecilia Bakker.
In "Printmaking on the Edge" published in 2006Richard Noyce
writes about my art work "Bakker...prefers to allow techniques to suggest themselves during the progression of the work. She agrees that this approach does contain within it a degree of risk, but maintains that an element of serenditipty is also possible." He also cites me explaining why woodcut is a good fit for my process "...a live material with its age recorded in its grain. To carve a still image of motion or to carve gestural scribble marks makes that which was once moving and growing as still and forever recorded as grain is in wood and as memories are in the mind."
found scribbles.
2004
Woodcutrelief
using baltic birch.
edition size: 1.
Installation measures apx 10ft x 4ft.
Cecilia Bakker.
Large scale handcarved woodblocks. We unintentionally communicate our feelings and our humanity through marked physical expressions. I recorded found writing mistakes in the manner of written language as large scale woodblocks, and I refer to these suites of scribble woodcuts as sentences. These blocks were also used to create prints which I hand bound to create books.
dancing skins.
2001
Two color Woodblockprint
on Hosho.
edition size: 5.
Indivudual prints are 15" x 18"Cecilia Bakker.
These prints are part of a series called "Dancing Skins." where I followed an organic work process from drawing to print to sculpture to photography and then back to print.
self portrait in woodcut.
2000
One color Woodblockprint
on Kitikata.
edition size: 3.
print measures 10" x 15"Cecilia Bakker.
When making a woodcut the negative space of the drawing is cut away. It is much easier to draw a line than to carve away everything but the line. The process of carving the drawing creates the printable matrix as well as adds the element of the wood grain to the image. Further the process requires you to consider all positive and negative space.
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Education
2010-2013. Washington University, Olin Business School, St. Louis, MO. Masters of Business Administration
1998-2002. Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO. Bachelor of Fine Art, major in Printmaking
Experience
2016 - Current. Bakker Brown Studio, Kansas City, MO. Bakker Brown apparel design studio in Kansas City. Updated contemporary classics of high quality and craft made in USA for men and women. A collaboration from Cecilia Bakker and Tim S. Brown.
2004 - Current. WINKA PRESS, Kansas City, MO. Winka Press is a boutique design and letterpress print shop where I am a partner
The LLW with master printer Mike Sims works with nationally renowned fine artists to develop and produce limited edition prints utilizing traditional printmaking techniques such as stone lithography and wood cut.
contact via email at art at ceciliab.com
Exhibits
2015-16 Winter InvitationalJan 16 - thru March 2016
