| BHAKTI BAXTER |
Born in Argentina in 1979, Miami-based Bhakti Baxter earned a
B.F.A. from New World School of the Arts in 1994. Identified as
one of the most promising young talents by Director of Miami
MOCA, Bonnie Clearwater, Baxter has shown his work at the
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, the Fort Lauderdale Art
Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami,
where in 2002 he was given a solo exhibition, An intelligible
sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference is
nowhere. A co-founder of one of Miami’s influential alternative
art exhibition spaces, The House, Baxter is represented by the
Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, and Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin,
Miami and Paris. His work is in the permanent collections of the
Miami Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art,
North Miami, among others.
Through his sculptures, watercolors, videos and installations,
Baxter seeks to reveal the beauty and perfection of the patterns
underlying all of nature, both earthly and celestial. His work also
explores ideas of organic growth, and the harmony between the
physical and metaphysical realms: "My work addresses the force
behind matter in the cosmos, that which is understood not by the
intellect but by the gift of human intuition. In this light, common
patterns found in life are extracted and reconfigured materially,
transcending the surface of their image to enter an area of sublimity."
|
|
|