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Myka Baum
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Degree: PG Cert Professional Studies Photography
University: Central Saint Martins
Graduation Year: 2008
New Blood Art Statement
Baum makes fresh and invigorating connections with an increasingly ignored nature. The young artist was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2009, where the judges included Ellen Gallagher, Saskia Olde Wolbers, John Stezaker and Wolfgang Tillmans, who reviewed over 10,000 slides and hundreds of videos to bring together the showcase of contemporary talent. Baum’s ‘Lunar Mare’ series received high praise from Wolfgang Tillmans himself: "It’s a very specific vision-it’s definitely something I have never seen before and it is an achievement."
Furthermore, Myka’s work followed on to be selected for long-term display at Arts Council England alongside only 9 other recent New Contemporaries.
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Artist Statement
I work predominantly in photography and investigate its ephemeral nature in relation to the urban environment.At the heart of my practice lies a fascination with cycles of transformation and an attempt to encapsulate natural phenomena through abstract processes. Light plays an integral role within my work and there is an ambiguity between the precision of photographic apparatus and the structured randomness of the organic.
One of my main bodies of work to date has been inspired by the moon. In ‘Luna Mare’ 2008, the reflection of the moon trembles between a synthetic construction and a natural phenomena.
Since 2011, I have been developing several bodies of work exploring the subject of edible gardening in an urban environment.
In ‘Rotten’ I am exploring the use of film as matter – placing seeds and soil onto the physical film.
Once I feel that there has been sufficient growth or corrosion on the film I will scan the negatives for printing. When encountering my work the painstaking process is to an extent out of sight – the viewer is left with essentially an abstract image, being left to unravel the layers of natural and mechanical reproduction.
In ‘City Plots’ I create imagined city farms by photographing urban grey spaces that could potentially be used for food growing. I then either transplant edible plants into the photographic print, or grow seedlings from within the print itself.
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2012, Q-Art Presents 4, APT Gallery, London
2012, Crash Open, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London
2011, index7, Protein Gallery, London
2011, earth:NOW:being, Hackney City Farm, London
2011, earth:NOW:being, Church Farm Ardeley, Stevenage
2011, Try A Little Tenderness, Freightliners City Farm, London
2011, Canal Museum, London
2010, Arts Council England, London (18 month display)
2010, Crash Open, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London
2010, Folk Off, Green Lens Studio, London
2010, Little White Lies, SuperMonday Collective, Stour Space, London
2009, Tracing The Image, SuperMonday Collective, Crypt Gallery, London
2009, Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2009, Rochelle School, London
2009, Unseen, SuperMonday Collective, Gramaphone, London
2009, Unique Perspectives, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
2008, Interim Show, Old Truman Brewery, London