Felipe Baeza

Felipe Baeza fuses collage, painting, printmaking, and other techniques to create multilayered, textural works that explore notions of the body, immigrant, and queer experiences. Baeza’s figures created over densely layered paintings often appear in different states of be- coming and are sometimes even abstracted to the point of invisibility. Described as “fugitive” and “unruly” bodies by the artist, Baeza crafts hybrid figures where the human and the nonhuman merge to create fantastical images that conjure realms of myth, spirit, imagination, and contemporary themes. Untethered to specific temporal or spatial refer- ents, Baeza’s figures construct alternative possibilities for themselves as autonomous and hyper-connected subjects. As the artist states of his own fascination with the fragmented body, “If queerness were a project, the project would never be complete. It’s this incompleteness that allows for imagination.”

Bio: Felipe Baeza (b. 1987, Guanajuato, Mexico) works and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Fusing collage, painting, printmaking, and other techniques to create multilayered, textural works that explore notions of the body and migration, Baeza’s sensually rich and visually arresting works evoke both mythic dimensions and contemporary themes. His figures created over densely layered paintings appear in different states of becoming and at times are even abstracted to the point of invisibility.