Twin_Stranger_Maquette - Lucy Baird (1).jpg
Twin_Stranger_Maquette - Lucy Baird (1).jpg

Lucy Wood Baird - Maquette for "Twin Stranger"

$200.00

Maquette for "Twin Stranger", 2025

Pigment Prints
H 3.75 x W 5.25 x D 5.25 Inches

My works are quietly dimensional objects that use shards of images, both found and made, as material, collecting bits of the ambient image noise that surrounds us. The works illuminate the incongruity of photographic identity as simultaneously record, chameleon, and messenger, tapping into the anxiety around false and relative truths emanating from the onslaught of images we encounter daily. Central to this body of work is the exploration of layering photographic and geologic time using fictive marble and stone, referencing the technique originating in Renaissance painting that mimics the appearance of marble to create an illusion of reality and three-dimensional depth. 

My works begin as small maquettes, which are then translated to larger finished works; this work is a maquette for a larger work titled “Twin Stranger,” from the show “What do I call you?” at Material Exhibitions in 2025. 

Maquette for "Twin Stranger", 2025

Pigment Prints
H 3.75 x W 5.25 x D 5.25 Inches

My works are quietly dimensional objects that use shards of images, both found and made, as material, collecting bits of the ambient image noise that surrounds us. The works illuminate the incongruity of photographic identity as simultaneously record, chameleon, and messenger, tapping into the anxiety around false and relative truths emanating from the onslaught of images we encounter daily. Central to this body of work is the exploration of layering photographic and geologic time using fictive marble and stone, referencing the technique originating in Renaissance painting that mimics the appearance of marble to create an illusion of reality and three-dimensional depth. 

My works begin as small maquettes, which are then translated to larger finished works; this work is a maquette for a larger work titled “Twin Stranger,” from the show “What do I call you?” at Material Exhibitions in 2025. 

Lucy Wood Baird

Baird’s work has been included in exhibitions both nationally and internationally including Filter, Chicago, IL (2015); Aperture Foundation, New York, NY (2016); Aviary Gallery, Boston, MA (2016), Harvey Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO (2017), Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA (2018), Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA (solo, 2022), Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL (2023), SCOTTY, Berlin, Germany (2023), and Material Exhibitions, Chicago, IL (solo, 2025). Her work is included in private collections nationally. She has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center (2016, 2022), Anderson Ranch Arts Center (2017), Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (2020), Virginia Center for the Arts (2023) and Latitude (2025). She holds a BA from Harvard University (2010) and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2016). She lives and works in Chicago.