2019 – Lucy Wood Baird

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2019-2020

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Trained in photography, Lucy Wood Baird creates spatial, sculptural collages constructed from shards of images, both made of and collected from the ambient image noise surrounding us. Her work questions the largely unexamined objecthood of the image and explores how photographic fragments might operate as physical forms in space. In relinquishing their legibility and context, these shards are transformed into structures that deploy the image as duplicate, shadow, negative, and mirror, probing photography’s slippery and complicated relationship to truth and the real. Influenced by the skepticism of Light and Space artists and Minimalists—who often regarded photography as a reductive, flattening mode of documentation that diminished experiential work—Baird embraces this tension. Her works reassert the experiential and perceptual potential of images when materially embedded in space, functioning as trompe l’oeil constructions and visual puzzles that illuminate the instability of photographic identity as simultaneously record, chameleon, and messenger within a culture saturated by images often unreliable images.

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September 2026: Pinhole Exhibition: AIR x 100 @ Latitude Chicago
Februrary/March 2026: Artist in Residence, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO
September 2025: Artist in Residence, Latitude, Chicago, IL
April 2025: What do I call you?, Material Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
April 2024: Artist in Residence, Moulin a Nef, Auvillar, France
January/February 2024: Abbott Watts Residency, Monson Arts, Monson, ME

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