Casey Baden

About

American, b. 1991   —   Casey Baden is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles. Her plural practice includes painting, mixed-media tapestries and weavings, large-scale installations that engage with furniture and architecture, fiber pieces that can exist in a functional domestic space, soft and ceramic based sculptures, and pieces that involve natural dye and sunlit photographic exposure techniques. Materially experimental but conceptual at the core, Baden’s practice engages ideas of tactility and embodiment, intimacy and desire, the quotidian and the domestic, emotional labor and the personal as political. Baden was born and raised in Houston, TX. She completed her BFA at New York University, 2014 and her MFA at California Institute of the Arts, 2020. She has been awarded residencies at Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Vermont Studio Center, The Reef, AZ West, and PADA Portugal, and has exhibited works in the US and Europe. In Los Angeles, exhibitions have included the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Textile Resource LA, The Wing, 00LA, Other Places Art Fair, and Calarts. Her work has been featured in publications including ArtForum (online), Hyperallergic, UTB, and The Racket Journal. Presently, Baden is the co-founder of two projects. The first is an artist-run space and arts fabrication shop called Full Service Creative, and the second is a developing community fiber studio and and curatorial initiative called Textile Resource LA.