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info@sallybaxter.com
www.sallybaxter.com
Sally Baxter has been living and working as an artist in Los Angeles since 2006. Her latest paintings are densely layered pieces that blend graphic imagery with the abstract. By using paint and process and matching found imagery with pervasive symbols of consumerist culture, she questions our modalities as citizens in an ever-advancing technological western world.
The Hamburger Series which consists of 12 paintings is about aspiration, materialism, greed and the failed American collective consciousness. The artist has used paint, print and collage to address the intersecting facets of advertising, consumerism, ideology and culture inherent to American identity. The ‘controlled chaos’ of densely layered paint, ink, oil pastel, vintage magazine photographs, newspaper and spray paint are blended together around a graphic symbol and the associated colors of the great American consumer icon, the hamburger.
Part Pop-art, part Abstract, these painting connect the simple with the poignant, in a space where the burger sauce turns into dripping blood, the hamburger bun takes on the shape of a teenage soldier’s helmet and the burger meat is painted in daubs of shit-colored brown.
Sally believes in the positive influence that creative confidence and developing an artistic practice can have. For the past few years she has been facilitating art programs for ‘Free Arts’, a non-profit arts education program serving at risk children and their families in the greater Los Angeles area.
Free Arts for Abused Children, which has been on-going for more than 30 years works on the philosophy that "art heals.” The healing power of art is used to interrupt the cycle of violence, create understanding, build self-esteem, and nurture better lives.
Innovative art programs, managed by caring adult volunteers like Sally, who interact positively with the needy, integrate the healing and therapeutic power of the arts into the lives of children and youth who have been abused, are homeless or at-risk of falling through the cracks of the system, as well as their families.
Sally is also teaching and developing an on-going weekly art program with homeless women suffering from mental health problems at Day Break which is part of OPCC, a network of shelters and services for low income and homeless youths, adults, families, battered women and their children, and people living with mental illness, in West Los Angeles.
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* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist