Tiffany Baker

Tiffany Baker, is a Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based visual artist, working in oil, acrylic, pencil, digital media, and glass. Tiffany has developed a unique style of realist portraiture. Marked by vibrant palettes and considered attention to her subject's grooming, she merges the somber, the regal, and mundane, bringing forth her subject's intensity. In her portraiture, Tiffany turns life experiences into emotive visual expressions that re-imagine trauma, embed messages of connection, and celebrate her identity as a black woman.

BEHIND THE SCENES

Today, we are so accustomed to consuming police violence media, I knew I wanted to show the events that happened to Demetrius from an emotional perspective. I kept coming back to the question, “What if this was my cousin, how would he feel? I bet he'd feel alone and terrified.” Visually, I wanted to show feelings of anxiety, confusion, and isolation one might feel in Demetrius’ situation. I used color to drum up different emotional aspects of the story, darks for isolation, yellows, greens, and blues for anxiety during the traffic stop, and purple hues for calm and safety in the third scene. 

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