Debra Baxter
Robert de Saint Phalle

Yielded

January 5 – 28, 2007
Reception / Thursday, January 4, 6–9pm

In January SOIL presents Yielded, a show of sculptures and video by Debra Baxter and Robert de Saint Phalle. Although the artists work with different materials and processes their recent work shares a similar search for forms of survival and a preoccupation with ideas of one’s voice. Debra’s alabaster vocal cords in positions of speech seek the physical origins of fleeting emotions. Her work is increasingly about finding strength in vulnerability, revealing the body as a means of protection. Robert has also focused on the biology of sound by giving form to the air-sinus system of a mockingbird. Perched on an empty self-addressed cardboard box, the piece finds personal clarity in the essence of mimicry. Their combined work lays bare the physical manifestations yielded by their respective search for self-figuration.

Debra Baxter was born in 1972 in Omaha, Nebraska. She received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1996. 

Robert de Saint Phalle was born in 1978 outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and received his BFA from The Cooper Union, New York in 2001. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and is an Adjunct Professor at The Cooper Union

Read Craig Brownson's review of the show in The Stranger

Read Nate Lippens' review of the show in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer