Un-Making the Center

Opening reception: Tuesday, June 25, 5-6 p.m.

Location: Koenigsallee 36, Wilmersdorf-Grunewald

RSVP: rsvp@wiko-berlin.de, Tel. 030 / 890010

The exhibition is open through July 14, 2013 by appointment. Tel. 0170 / 609 71 53

This body of work, completed during the past year, investigates the process of art making as un-making. This theme is approached from four positions: ceramic bones, found tree cuttings, wire nets and digital photographs. Each direction explores a continuum from imposed or fixed metrics to the open-ended dispersal of form. From the contained and bounded to the undefined, these works speak to the invention of place from the inside while losing their structure from without. Layers of thawed and refrozen ice stage such events as new snow, animal tracks and color. Black and white scale markers used in surveying are referenced to identify the measuring process, while the regularity of wire mesh empties out its net.

Kendall Baker is a sculptor and installation artist, and a Professor of Fine Arts at Caldwell College (New Jersey, USA). He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University School of Art in 1988, and has been a Fulbright Scholar in Baroda, India. Baker has been exhibited at the Sculpture Center in Manhattan, the Staten Island Cultural Center, and private galleries. During a 2011 residency, Baker designed and developed a site-specific outdoor installation for the I-Park Sculpture Estate in East Haddam, Connecticut (USA). His work can be found in private collections in the United States and India.

Further information and images may be found at his website: kendallbaker.org