The Art of Selective Elimination

Alex Baker is a fine art and travel photographer focusing mainly on real and imagined landscapes that create a haunting mood of mythic times and places. Alex and his wife, artist Suzette Martin, live and work at the Eclipse Mill Artist Residency in North Adams, MA

Alex spent 22 years as an actor, set and lighting designer, technical director, and stage manager in the theater.

In the ‘80s tech boom, he transferred his technical theater skills to Information Technology consulting in software development, computer network design and project management. He eventually retired as an Associate Director from the global financial services firm, Ernst & Young, at the end of 2009.

All the while, he has been a photographer. While working in show business, Alex took classes in photography and honed his craft. He did portraiture and portfolios for actors and models, performance photography for the theater, dance, and musicians plus landscape and street photography. Over time, Alex’s work has evolved primarily into fine art landscape based images with some architectural, travel and street photography.

Alex studied acting in New York and Los Angeles with three of America’s greatest acting teachers representing the three primary branches of America acting technique: John Leyne (the Method), Viola Spolin (Improvisation) and Susan Anspach (Meisner technique). Everything since has been informed by what he learned about human behavior as an actor. He attended the University of North Carolina, Theater Arts BFA program but left early to work professionally. Twenty-two years later, he graduated from Thomas Edison State University with a BA in Theater Arts just because. Alex can still be seen in small roles in some pretty bad movies on cable, DVD or VHS tapes in attics and basements.

Exhibitions:

Berkshire Seasons - Seasonal Images from the Berkshires with photographer, Jessica Wincek - July, August 2022 - Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams MA, July 2021

Kaleidoscapes and Sights Unseen, Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams MA, July 2021

Ramapo Reflections - Images of the Ramapo River, Ramapo Reservation,  Celery Farm Nature Preserve in Bergen County, New Jersey, and other lower Hudson Valley locations - March 4 through May 5 , 2020 - Reception March 12th 6 to 8PM - All interrupted by Covid-19 of course

New Decade Member show - Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont, NY January 3 - 26, 2020

"FEAR" October 12 – November 23, 2019 – group exhibition at Volition Gallery – 103. S. Greenbush Rd, Orangeburg, New York 10913

GAF Corporation World Headquarters Atrium Gallery, June, 2019 – November 30, 2019 solo exhibition “Neighbors” 1 Campus Drive, Parsippany, NJ 07054

Piermont Flywheel Gallery – "Worlds Apart" solo exhibition – August 8 – 25, 2019 Piermont, NY 223 Ash Street Piermont Landing, Piermont, NY 10968

Piermont Flywheel Gallery - member exhibition “Serendipity” January, 2019

Piermont Flywheel Gallery - Solo exhibition “In a Mist” September-October, 2018

Pennsylvania Center For Photography – Doylestown, PA, November 2018 “Transformations” Group Show

“Dynamics - Partners in Life and Art” – A group show of artist couples – Volition Gallery – Orangeburg, NY May-June 2018

7th Annual Juried Exhibition Honorable Mention – Sohn Fine Arts – Lenox, MA February 2018

Member Show – Garner Arts Center, Garnerville, NY May 2018

Piermont Flywheel Gallery - Solo exhibition “In the Eye of the Beholder” July-August, 2017

Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR – Portraiture Juried Photo Exhibition – September, 2016

“Adventures in Photography 2015” Juried Photo Exhibition- Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, NJ February 2015

Castell Gallery, Asheville, NC – Fall, 2013 “Next” – Juried exhibition

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