Canadian artist Sarita Baker, fearful of today’s disposable culture, repurposes traditional art techniques by incorporating them into contemporary works.  Intrigued by Shintaro Ohata, Gregory Euclide, and Michael Trpák’s painting/sculpture combines, she set out to subtly merge Ohata’s realism, Euclide’s magic, and Trpák’s high concept. The results were her realistically rendered yet impossible drawings and pastels incorporating three dimensional objects. Explorations in dimensionality and reality, Sarita’s simple compositions surprise—circular branches jump across panels, trees grow up and down, plaster ducks swim into wood—nothing is certain. “Certainty is where disposability comes from,” she says, “I want to question that.”

Interdisciplinary artist