nooks and crannies
Installations in Non-Gallery Spaces

Arizona State University Art Museum
September 15, 2001 - January 6, 2002

Julia Alexander

Matt Baker

Location: Glass Brick Openings of Top Gallery Hallway

In a series of ceramic sacred offering urns placed inside glass brick openings along a museum hallway, writer Matt Baker and ceramic artist Betsy Rosenmiller have collaborated to produce a confluence of the physical and the metaphysical. Their joint installation examines the intangible junction at which their two artistic and personal lives flow together. Not only united by marriage, the two also share a unique mental and creative bond. The area chosen for their installation shares this confluence in terms of physical as well as symbolic space. It is a point where exterior light enters the museum through glass bricked crevices and washes an interior hallway, an intimate space where interior and exterior combine.

Matt Baker received a BA in International Relations from Dickinson College,Carlisle, PA, and went on to receive a MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University, and a MA in Counseling and Psychology from Prescott College. He is a co-founder of Metropolitan Arts Institute of Phoenix (a charter arts high school) and is currently Co-Executive Director, Administrative Director and President of the Metropolitan Arts Institute Board of Directors.

Contact artist Matt Baker with questions about his work for
nooks and crannies by e-mail at mattbakernooksandcrannies@hotmail.com

John D. Spiak
Curatorial Museum Specialist
Arizona State University Art Museum

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