Floating Points
Marsh Gallery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 2018 (solo)
From the Press Release:
Architecturally scaled to fill the field of vision, the loose paper weave of Floating Points shifts restlessly between the tactile and visual to achieve a state of spatial flux. Baxter’s woven space creates an uneasy equilibrium between presence and absence, material and non-material.
Baxter draws from color theory, the science of vision, the history of weaving and quilt making, and the mutability of pixels. The interlocking warp and weft of each panel forms a grid, recalling the rigorous, generative language of minimalism, while the saturated, shifting colors recall the flickering light of pixelated screens. The work functions as a sort of net or pixilated plane that catches and disperses molecules of light.