Religion

Lamar G. Baker

Lamar Baker depicts symbols of Christianity and Judaism gathering dust and spiderwebs, as though seen through the lens of time. A carved Jesus is split through the middle by a tiny woodpecker, who is perched on the edge of a radio, symbolizing perhaps the destructive nature of commercialized Evangelicalism. Wormholes riddle the books and wooden architectural details of the sculptures. A Torah provides an anchor for spiderwebs.

Baker did not shrink from exploring difficult and often controversial ideas, using art as a platform to critique the hypocrisy of social norms and prejudices. While his work often falls into the Surrealist catgory, it was often less veiled, and more pointed, than many of his contemporaries.