In their wild ride to the Pacific, the Pioneers were stopped by the ocean. Behind them were grandiose, luxuriant regions, but their vision leaped onward across the seas towards Asia, whose influence descended upon the people and their surroundings.

Originally from Seattle, a civilized metropolis of the Northwest, Anne Baxter discovered her vocation and her serenity, nourished by her yearly voyages to India. She sculpts peoples' daily life, still life, and unprecedented subjects, transforming them into her own language. "The only vigorous mental secretions are the ones that are fed by the raw stuff of daily personal life.”¹

"Light Sculpture” is made from poor grey material, which emanates, through the play of light and transparency, a sensitive mist, an ambiguous warm atmosphere. Anne Baxter's sculptures curiously recreate through their “seed-bed of scales,"² the contemporary vision of the volumes of the graphic computer.

Anne Baxter has recently finished her studies. She is a true artist in possession of her own identity; this is a source of great satisfaction for those who have accompanied her.

Gérard Singer

Translation: Valérie Lumbroso

1. Jean Dubuffet, L'Homme du commun à l'ouvrage.
2. Jean Paulhan, La Peinture cubiste.