Casey Baden was born and raised in Houston, TX. She completed her BFA at New York University, 2014 and her MFA at California Institute of the Arts, 2020. She has been awarded residencies at Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Vermont Studio Center, The Reef, AZ West, Textile Art Center, PADA Studios, Plum Lime Residency NYC, and JO-HS artist-in-residence, CDMX. Baden has exhibited works in the US and Europe. In Los Angeles, recent exhibitions have included La Loma Projects, Quarters Gallery, Known Studios, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Spring Break LA, and the Palos Verdes Art Center. Presently, she is an adjunct teacher in textiles and drawing/painting at Harvey Mudd and Pitzer College.

Casey Baden is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles. Her plural practice includes painting, mixed-media tapestries and weavings, large-scale installations that engage with furniture and architecture, and pieces that involve natural dye and sunlit photographic exposure techniques. Materially experimental but conceptual at the core, Baden’s practice engages ideas of tactility and embodiment, intimacy and desire, the quotidian and the domestic, emotional labor and the personal as political.

tactile--tacit - embodied - having a body

texture--means to weave (physical threads and threads of meaning) - text - textile - integration - encircling the body

intimacy--innermost - relation(ships) - the body not in a vacuum, but in relation

domestic--domicile - the place you call home, what is prepared in the house

These word paths map the main ideas at the core of Baden’s practice. Combining craft, figuration, and intimate personal experience, her works compel and are full of traces of physical touch, attempting to foster the critical space of emotion and create opportunities for immersion and recognition. Dichotomies like attraction and repulsion, holding on and letting go, independence and belonging, individuality and uniformity, natural and synthetic, private and public, enliven these works with dynamic tension. In her practice, Baden works to underscore the importance of connection and entanglement, and to make tangible or totemic the transitory nature of having a body.

Exhibition:

Dream Machine