Shelby A. Baron
Mar 10, 2008
Shelby A. Baron is a Buffalo artist who believes that left-handers are better fighters, hot leather clad biker chicks rock and Vincent Gallo makes a damn fine movie.
If you want to talk gender roles, fun with sexuality and daily vices, Baron is the woman to speak with. In a George Grosz manner, she confronts these issues through inflammatory drawings and cleverly worded captions; on a rendering of fish-like creatures, the title states “Mermaids with Vices.” Baron is older than the average percussive collegiate artist and so perhaps, more accurately observing her fellow human beings. She has reached the stage of judgmental which deems her art much more interesting – she isn’t cloaking her subjects with gracefulness or sympathy. As she paints, she is almost the omniscient narrator filling the audience in on what happens behind door number one. But the subjects are grotesquely contrived physically as well. Proportion is distorted, body parts chaotic and the movement is promiscuous. Her infrequent use of color lends to the creation of various areas of atmosphere and a disconnected perspective.
UB is currently exhibiting Baron’s work along with eleven other first-year master of fine arts students from the department of visual studies. The exhibit will be on display from now until March 22 at the UB Center for the Arts on the North Campus.
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