DAWN WATERS BAKER

ARTIST BIO & STATEMENT

Dawn Waters Baker is an artist in faith from Texas. Her large scale paintings depict the emotional and spiritual state unseen to the naked eye in landscapes. Baker focuses on nature's isolated state to draw out the light that transcends the spiritual and seeks to understand tangible metaphors that can be found in elements of nature. Her work rides between the traditional and the contemporary, the mystical and the physical, the seen and the deeper things that are unseen. Believing that human beings connect to the landscape through their senses, she is more interested in what is felt than what is literal. Baker finds herself entering into something deeper, richer, and fuller through the images presented by nature.

Dawn was born and raised an expatriate on the islands of the Philippines. She grew up under the shadow of an active volcano and learned to look for the beauty in lives much harder than her own. In 1994 she moved to Dallas for college where she received her BA in Fine Arts from DBU, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1998. In her free time, she likes to hike, travel to beautiful landscapes, and teaches art in Dallas County Juvenile Detention Center once a week for incarcerated youth.

Her art is collected by many businesses as well as private owners. Her piece, “Release” is on permanent display in the New York Times Building, in. NYC. She finished five original drawings for the book, “Why, O God?” published by Crossway books. She is a signature member of Artists of Texas. Dawn is also affiliated with Mary Tomas Gallery in Dallas Design District, Waterfall Art & Gallery, New York, NY, and Joseph Gierek Fine Art in Tulsa, OK. She was selected as the 2015 Artist in Residence for Big Bend National Park. She was also selected as Artist in Residence at Gettysburg National Military Park in 2018 with a solo show of her work in March of 2019. Her work has been in national shows including The National Weather Biennale, Jubilee Museum of Sacred Art Biennale, CIVA Contemporary Images of Mary, The Nave Museum and Ex Nihilo at Roberts Wesleyan College.