Felipe Baeza: Anima

Felipe Baeza: Anima is the first monographic institutional exhibition in Los Angeles surveying the artist's practice. Bringing together over 40 works demonstrating the range of Baeza's material experimentation, Anima is the first exhibition to deeply explore the artist's grounding in printmaking and the development of his visual language and studio process. Felipe Baeza (b.1987, Celaya, Mexico; lives and works in Brooklyn) is known for his figurative work that combines elements of printmaking, collage, painting, and other techniques. In these multilayered images, Baeza depicts bodies in various states of fragmentation, hybridity, and legibility—which the artist has called "fugitive" and "unruly"—to explore racialized, queer, and migrant subjects who transgress the limitations of identity. Baeza's work combines diverse media (including pigments, tissue paper, archival images, gesso, and varnish) as well as intensive aesthetic processes (including drawing, cutting, surface abrasion and absorption), manipulating materials on paper and canvas at both intimate and large scales. Felipe Baeza: Anima was organized by Print Center New York, and curated by Jenn Bratovich, Chief Curator, and Alex Santana, Associate Curator. The presentation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, is organized by Pablo José Ramírez, curator, with Jessi DiTillio, curatorial assistant. Generous support for Felipe Baeza: Anima is provided by Allison and Larry Berg, and Pamela and David Hornik. All exhibitions at the Hammer are made possible by the Hammer Exhibition Fund. Lead support is provided by Alice and Nahum Lainer. Generous support is provided by Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein, Christine Meleo Bernstein and Armyan Bernstein, and Bill Hair.