Enid Baxter Blader
Enid Baxter Blader’s artworks have shown at diverse venues such as the Smithsonian, Washington, D.C; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Location One, New York; Sundance, Park City, Utah; The Arclight Theater, Los Angeles; The Kunsthalle Vienna, The Arnolfini in London; the Director's Guild of America, Hollywood; Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow and Aurora Picture Show, Houston. In March 2008, her videos will be included in the Getty Museum’s retrospective of California Video 1960-present.
Her films have been written about in the NEW YORK TIMES, ARTFORUM, ARTREVIEWS and others. Her drawing series, “Full Moon in Sunbury,” was a recent Artist’s Project featured in X-TRA Magazine.
A musician as well as a filmmaker and painter, she appears as a guest bluegrass singer on two recently released albums.
She has won several grants, including from the California Council of the Humanities, the Durfee Foundation and Kodak Film.
Enid received her BFA from The Cooper Union, completed a fellowship at Yale University and received her MFA with a fellowship from Claremont Graduate University.
Aurora Picture Show released a DVD by Enid Baxter Blader. You can buy it here and here. Olive's Backyard Concert (as seen here at Link Contemporary) and Secret Apocalyptic Love Diaries (as seen in the Getty's CA Video show) are also available.
Olive's Backyard Concert now has a new website. Also, Enid will be showing in Mallorca, Spain at CCA Andratx.
RECENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:
September 13 - October 25, 2008 Paintings and Drawings. Animation in Collaboration with Andrew Dolan at link contemporary art - press release
RECENT AND UPCOMING SCREENINGS:
Signals: A Video Showcase
Orange County Museum of Art
Orange Lounge, South Coast Plaza
July 26–September 14: In California Scenarios, five artists offer thoughtful, poetic meditations on significant sites in California—San Jose’s Winchester Mystery House; the animated desert landscapes of Warner Brothers cartoons, produced in their Burbank studios; the rapidly growing Inland Empire; the commuter lanes of Los Angeles; and the entropic wasteland of the Salton Sea. Jeremy Blake’s Winchester Redux (2004), Mungo Thomson’s The American Desert (for Chuck Jones) (2002), Enid Baxter Blader’s Local 909er (2007), Bia Gayotto’s Xing LA: From Altadena to Long Beach (2008), and Nicole Antebi’s Tilapia Jetty (2007) are featured.
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smockshop presents screeners I
video work for screening and for sale
September 6 - 21, 2008
summer smockshop, 936 Mei Ling Way, Chinatown, Los Angeles
screening and on the shelf
DYSTOPIAN UTOPIAS
artists invited by Glenn Phillips
Enid Baxter Blader, Local 909er and others.
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Riverside Public Library
Library/Author Events
All events are held in the Main Library Auditorium (2nd floor), 3581 Mission Inn Avenue unless otherwise noted. The public is invited free of charge.
Saturday, November, 22, 1 pm
Enid Baxter Blader, Local 909er
Enid Baxter Blader makes paintings, experimental films, and plays music. Her work has been presented at the Smithsonian, Sundance, and the Director's Guild of America among others. “Local 909er” is a film, a website and photographs about the Inland Empire. The project was funded by the California Council for the Humanities California Story Fund.