Felipe Baeza Benefit Print

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Felipe Baeza

Desviación, 2023

6 Color screenprint and collage on Coventry Rag paper

16 x 8 inches

Edition of 40 plus 4 APs + 2 PPs

Signed and numbered by the artist on verso

$2,400

Visual AIDS is proud to announce our 2023 benefit print artist, Felipe Baeza, in collaboration with Artspace. All proceeds benefit the mission of Visual AIDS.

Created with multiple layers of silkscreen and collage, each print within the edition of 40 contains multi-dimensional variations and hand- torn deckled edges. The hands and eyes in each print were hand-cut and placed by the artist on each print so that each edition truly features the hand of the artist. These material intricacies reimagine the carved, painted, and collaged surfaces of Baeza’s fascinating unique works in an new, intimate format.

Felipe Baeza’s practice employs innovative and complex techniques to investigate concepts of otherness, agency, and transformation. Influenced by the religious imagery he was exposed to throughout his Catholic upbringing, Baeza pushes the boundaries of how the human body —corporeal, psychological, and metaphysical—is visually represented. Proceeds from the sale of this charitable limited edition will support the work of Visual AIDS. Baeza’s prominence has grown steadily since recent exhibitions at Maureen Paley in London and The Mistake Room in Los Angeles, among others. His inclusion in the 2022 Venice Biennale international exhibition, “The Milk of Dreams,” curated by Cecilia Alemani, catapulted him into the upper echelon of artists working today. Baeza recently completed a residency as a Guest Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

ABOUT FELIPE BAEZA

Felipe Baeza (b. 1987, Guanajuato, Mexico) works and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Baeza's practice is equal parts confrontation of violent pasts and a tribute to people whose sense of personhood is constantly litigated and defined by those in power. His figures created over densely layered paintings appear in different states of becoming and at times are even abstracted to the point of invisibility. Baeza's recent group exhibitions include The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2022); Prospect 5. New Orleans: Yesterday We Said Tomorrow, New Orleans (2021); and Desert X, Palm Springs (2020). Baeza’s recent solo exhibitions include Made Into Being, Fortnight Institute, New York (2022), Unruly Suspension, Maureen Paley, London (2021); and Through the Flesh to Elsewhere, the Mistake Room, Los Angeles (2020). Baeza’s works are in the public collections of Columbus Museum of Art, LACMA, Moderna Museet, and San Jose Museum of Art. Baeza is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptures grant and completed residencies at NXTHVN and the Getty Research Institute. Baeza received a BFA from the Cooper Union and an MFA from Yale.