Felipe Baeza presents Anima, the first monographic institutional exhibition in New York surveying the artist’s practice. Bringing together over 40 works demonstrating the range of Baeza’s material experimentation. Anima is the first exhibition to deeply explore the artist’s grounding in printmaking and the development of his visual language and studio process.
Baeza’s work combines diverse media (including pigments, tissue paper, archival images, gesso, and varnish) as well as intensive aesthetic processes (including drawing, cutting, surface abrasion and absorption), manipulating materials on paper and canvas at both intimate and large scales.
The exhibition’s title refers to the soul of a person or being, and is a nod to the earliest work included in the exhibition. One of Baeza’s first explorations of cut paper and collage, Anima (2011) foreshadows his material experimentation of later years as well as his conceptual exploration of the degendered and reassembled human body.
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