NANCY BAKER CAHILL

NANCY BAKER CAHILL http://nancybakercahill.com/ en Copyright 2012, Nancy Baker Cahill Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:31:02 -0500 Fascinomas: Fascinomas Video Still, Installation view <img border="0" src="http://nancybakercahill.com/static/dyn-images/46/46839.jpeg" alt="Fascinomas Video still, Installation view" height="332" width="500" /> 2011 Projected video on scrim, installed Each image is a painting that has been animated with After Effects. http://nancybakercahill.com/work/view/1799/12198 Fascinomas: Fascinomas Video Still, Installation view <img border="0" src="http://nancybakercahill.com/static/dyn-images/47/47134.jpeg" alt="Fascinomas Video still, Installation view" height="278" width="500" /> 2011 http://nancybakercahill.com/work/view/1799/12365 Fascinomas: Fascinomas Video Still, Installation view <img border="0" src="http://nancybakercahill.com/static/dyn-images/46/46840.jpeg" alt="Fascinomas Video still, Installation view" height="333" width="500" /> 2011 Video Projection of animated paintings http://nancybakercahill.com/work/view/1799/12199 Fascinomas: Fascinomas Video Still, Installation view <img border="0" src="http://nancybakercahill.com/static/dyn-images/47/47192.jpeg" alt="Fascinomas Video still, Installation view" height="333" width="500" /> 2012 Video Projection of animated paintings http://nancybakercahill.com/work/view/1799/12397 Exit Wounds Collaborative Art Project - Selected Works: Reverse Bullet Blossoms (multi-colored) <img border="0" src="http://nancybakercahill.com/static/dyn-images/46/46445.jpeg" alt="example of Bullet Blossoms painting" height="375" width="500" /> 2012 gouache and pastel on paper, shot with .45 caliber handgun 22"x30" This is an example of work from my Bullet Blossoms series. The Exit Wounds Collaborative Art Project combines elements from this series with individual works created at Homeboy Industries. http://nancybakercahill.com/work/view/1802/12005 Exit Wounds Collaborative Art Project - Selected Works: Detail (Renegade) <img border="0" src="http://nancybakercahill.com/static/dyn-images/47/47618.jpeg" alt="Renegade Detail" height="554" width="500" /> 2011 http://nancybakercahill.com/work/view/1802/12583 Exit Wounds Collaborative Art Project - Selected Works: Detail (Freedom Tru Art) <img border="0" src="http://nancybakercahill.com/static/dyn-images/47/47615.jpeg" alt="Detail (Freedom Tru Art)" height="371" width="500" /> 2011 http://nancybakercahill.com/work/view/1802/12580 Exit Wounds Collaborative Art Project - Selected Works: East Side Story <img border="0" src="http://nancybakercahill.com/static/dyn-images/47/47617.jpeg" alt="East Side Story" height="388" width="500" /> 2011 mixed media on board, shot with .45 caliber handgun 16"x20" This piece was created by Hector Barrios. "This piece represents my lifestyle- growing up, and what has become of it now. East Side Story is how we as Mexicans were raised and the struggles we went through in the east side of Los Angeles. As far as those of us coming from poor communities, growing up in housing projects, and the choices we made by joining the neighborhood gang and representing the neighborhood and where that choice led us to. That choice led some of us to incarceration, some of us to death. Some of us are ones of the few who were fortunate to live all that and make it through that lifestyle. It's about the job that I have now with Homeboy Industries and trying to have something positive to look forward to and living life in the right direction. Artwork has also become a positive outlet for me and my lifestyle - its like poetry in drawing. It gives me peace when I feel a lot of weight on my shoulders and I think that artwork will continue to be an important part of my life." --Hector Barrios, 2011 http://nancybakercahill.com/work/view/1802/12582 Exit Wounds Collaborative Art Project - Selected Works: Guerrilla Tuff <img border="0" src="http://nancybakercahill.com/static/dyn-images/47/47619.jpeg" alt="Guerilla Tuff" height="458" width="500" /> 2011 This piece was created by Armando Ruiz. "Guerrilla Tuff. Well, I'm a guerilla and I'm tuff. Basically I used to live my life as a gorilla. I traveled America and sold drugs for what I believed anarchy could be. The important part in this piece is rather small. It's a dude beating up a cop and calling him a dick. I also put eyes in there to signify that you're being seen all the time. I also put meds on the bottom to signify the drugs I sold. I put in certain things to let people know what I thought of LA at one point in my life. "This is my town" and asking, "Are you ready?" ...Basically this piece is what I felt when I first came to LA in `07 and before Homeboy Industries. It represents some of my old ways of thinking and old destructive habits. I have now matured into a better person, for me and for my son. Reflect your own good taste..." --Armando Ruiz 2011 http://nancybakercahill.com/work/view/1802/12584 Exit Wounds Collaborative Art Project - Selected Works: Deep-rooted <img border="0" src="http://nancybakercahill.com/static/dyn-images/47/47616.jpeg" alt="Deep-Rooted" height="380" width="500" /> 2011 mixed media on board, shot with .45 caliber handgun 16"x20" This piece was created by Marta Ortega. "God has given me the opportunity to see the good and the bad, the option to choose a path. To go through the path that is angosto: the small or reduced path, the good path, or the path which is big and dangerous: ancho y la perdition. I layered letters into this piece about how society judges you--how your character comes into play. You can't confuse activity for achievement. You can't settle for that- because it's not. That's what we tend to do. We tend to settle for that. "We don't like meaningless" has to do with turning away from what is empty. I want to heal the wounds from my past and by healing the wounds I have been re-opening the wounds again. It's been hard. The layers signify my past and represent opening up wounds again. You see only what you want to see. To heal you have to open it again and then you can finally heal." --Marta Ortega, 2011 http://nancybakercahill.com/work/view/1802/12581 Exit Wounds Collaborative Art Project - Selected Works: Change of Heart <img border="0" src="http://nancybakercahill.com/static/dyn-images/47/47620.jpeg" alt="Change of Heart" height="381" width="500" /> 2011 mixed media on board, shot with .45 caliber handgun 16"x20" This piece was created by Rosa Crespin. "My piece symbolizes scars from my past, unhealed wounds but at peace at mind and happiness in my heart. The right side is a little story that will tell you part of what I have been through and what my past looks like. Incarcerations, handcuffs and pursuits are what this child once knew. But left in the past is what stands there, nothing but blank memories. They seem more like dreams. A new me is what now lives. The left side tells you what I now stand for and pursue; a mother of a child who wants nothing more than purity, respect and unconditional love for him. I will not let my past affect my nurturing ways toward my son. I live for life and not live to die anymore! I love my purpose in life. I am a new person with fulfillment of peace and want what's for family and me. This peace is what has happened to me; Change of Heart." --Rosa Crespin, 2011 http://nancybakercahill.com/work/view/1802/12585 Fascinomas: Installation View, Video <img border="0" src="http://nancybakercahill.com/static/dyn-images/47/47688.jpeg" alt="Installation view, video" height="314" width="500" /> 2011 Video Projection of animated paintings http://nancybakercahill.com/work/view/1799/12610 Press: Catalogue essay by Tucker Neel, Pasadena Museum of California Art <a href="http://tuckerneel.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/catalog-essay-for-nancy-baker-cahills-fascinomas/">link</a> http://tuckerneel.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/catalog-essay-for-nancy-baker-cahills-fascinomas/ Press: PMCA’s new exhibits engrossing and sometimes gross adult fare by Jana J. Monji <a href="http://pasadenaartbeat.wordpress.com/tag/nancy-baker-cahill/">link</a> http://pasadenaartbeat.wordpress.com/tag/nancy-baker-cahill/