10 Innovative Contemporary Landscape Painters
Maxwell Rabb for Artsy
October 16, 2024
Rush Baker IV has been included in Maxwell Rabb's 10 Innovative Contemporary Landscape Painters for Artsy. Here, we highlight 10 contemporary artists whose practices are innovating landscape painting...
As the son of a Washington, D.C.–area politician and a delegate to the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Rush Baker IV wants his paintings to generate political discourse. In his exhibition at Hemphill Artworks in Washington, D.C., “Landscapes,” a selection of abstract works that use archival photographs and visual ephemerafrom the Civil War era comments on sociopolitical turmoil in the United States.
ART TALKS: Rush Baker IV & Camille Brown
Gallery Talk at HEMPHILL Artworks
October 26, 2024
11 am
Please join us on Saturday, October 26, 2024, the final day of RUSH BAKER IV: Landscapes, for a gallery Q&A with the artist, Rush Baker IV and curator, Camille Brown.
This talk coincides with the exhibition, RUSH BAKER IV: Landscapes, on view at HEMPHILL through October 26, 2024. Since 1998, the ART TALKS series at Hemphill has included educational lectures on topics such as collecting for beginners, artist talks, and panel discussions on issues in contemporary art.
Seating is Limited. Doors open at 10:30 am, Talk begins at 11 am.
Rush Baker IV: Phillips Collection Acquisition
Rush Baker IV: Phillips Collection Acquisition
HEMPHILL is pleased to share the recent acquisition of Rush Baker IV's painting, View From Charleston Harbor by the Phillips Collection. The painting is now a part of their permanent collection and is currently on view in Gallery 204.
Thank you to everyone who joined Rush at the Contemporaries Soirée at the Phillips Collection on Thursday, July 25, 2024 to celebrate the acquisition.
RUSH BAKER IV | Grant Wood Fellowship
University of Iowa
2024 - 2025
HEMPHILL is pleased to share that Rush Baker IV has been announced as the Painting & Drawing Grant Wood Fellow at the University of Iowa for the 2024-2025 academic year.
The Grant Wood Fellowship program currently provides three one-year fellowships in painting & drawing, printmaking, and interdisciplinary performance. Fellows are selected through a national competition and provided with furnished living quarters at the Grant Wood Art Colony. The application process is open in January of each year, with selections made in April.
29 Emerging Black Artists to Discover This Black History Month
by Isis Davis-Marks for Artsy
February 15, 2024
HEMPHILL is pleased to share Rush Baker IV's inclusion in 29 Emerging Black Artists to Discover This Black History Month by Isis Davis-Marks for Artsy.
Using acrylic, resin, and found photography, Rush Baker IV uses different materials to create images that reflect the chaotic and quick-changing nature of our current era. Baker draws from diverse source material, ranging from the novelist Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower to the abstract painter Sam Gilliam’s dynamic pieces, to create compelling commentary about the environment and current events.
Washington Post: In the Galleries - Rush Baker IV
By Mark Jenkins
April 15, 2022
History is mostly submerged, but occasionally visible, in Rush Baker IV’s recent paintings. “American Sunset,” the Hyattsville painter’s show at Hemphill Artworks, was partly inspired by Tony Horwitz’s book “Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War.” The results include three canvases titled “Harpers Ferry” and one called “John Brown.”
Baker paints with acrylics, augmenting the brightly hued pigment with plaster and resin, and sometimes paper and spray paint. He layers the materials, sands the surface and then repeats the process multiple times. “It’s a matter of adding and subtracting compositional elements until the painting reveals itself to me,” the artist says in an interview published by the gallery.
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Rush Baker IV: American Sunset Interview
Interview with George Hemphill
Exhibition on view March 19 - April 30, 2022
HEMPHILL is pleased to share an interview with Rush Baker IV conducted by George Hemphill on the occasion of the exhibition American Sunset. Please find an excerpt below.
George Hemphill: Often, the organization of the picture plane in your paintings has circular movement, a spinning, a feeling of centrifuge, of things coming apart?
Rush Baker IV: Yes and no. It’s more of a reorganization of elements. It’s organized chaos. The collaged elements usually give the works a certain compositional structure. The initial layering of paint and plaster act as a disruption of that language, and then it’s a matter of revealing what the painting really wants to be. The gestures, especially in the larger works, mimic the movement of my physical range of motion.
As Galleries Return to Normal, One Group Show Thinks Big
For OPEN on K, Hemphill in Washington D.C. asked artists to bring their biggest ideas.
Hyperallergic
By Kriston Capps
November 11, 2021.
For Open on K, Hemphill asked artists to bring their biggest ideas. That’s a promising gallery provocation for this moment of return to not-quite-normalcy. Rush Baker appears to have found urgent inspiration in the Black Lives Matter protests for racial justice in the summer of 2020, but his paintings also point indirectly to the inchoate rage of the January 6 insurrection, with which the United States has yet to reckon. Many other artists — and many of the rest of us — spent months looking inward. Stepping back into the gallery after so many months of not seeing or showing or socializing marks an important moment, one in which we may see what’s changed.
Arlington Arts Center: STRETCHED
March 27 - June 5, 2021
Stretched presents an expanded perspective on contemporary painting, featuring nine artists whose work is rooted in but transcends the medium. Ranging from work on canvas to large-scale installation, the exhibition emphasizes the expansive and multi-faceted approach taken by contemporary artists who work with paint as part of their practice.
Featured Artists: Amna Asghar, Rushern Baker IV, Erick Antonio Benitez, Mark Joshua Epstein, Saskia Fleishman, Jen Noone, Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann, Madeline A. Stratton, and Rives Wiley
Hemphill Coloring Book
by HEMPHILL
07/15/2020
This coloring book was created during the shelter-in-place period of 2020. Thanks to the artists for their participation and inspiration. Art endures and so will we. Be well and thank you for continued support.
Rushern Baker IV
Post-World Politics: Rushern Baker IV’s Bold Abstractions are Fraught with Urgency and Anxiety
April 27, 2019
By Victoria L. Valentine, Culture Type
Rushern Baker IV
Reviews - Rushern Baker IV: Post-World at HEMPHILL Fine Arts
April 22, 2019
Phil Hutinet, East City Art
