1504 SOUTH COAST HWY
LAGUNA BEACH, CA
Entrance on Calliope St.
(925) 408-2907
Open by appointment.
STELLA MARIA BAER
Stella Maria Baer is a painter and photographer from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In her work she explores her memory of growing up in the desert, tracing her origins back to the dusts of canyons where her mother took her camping when she was little.
For the past nine years she has worked to create a body of work with three veins: paintings of moons and planets, photographs of desert landscapes, and surrealist portraits of women and children riding animals under the western sky. Her practice looks at the relationship between how we see women and how we treat land, between memory and cosmology, in paintings made from dirt and rock, in photographs of nudes in desert canyons, in the earth pigment bodies of women and children riding birds and horses at sunrise.
Stella's paintings and photographs have been featured by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Time Magazine, Scientific American, Architectural Digest, Sunset Magazine, Westword, and ArtNews. Her pieces are in public, private, and museum collections all over the world.
Stella lives on a little ranch south of Santa Fe with her husband Seth and their three children, Wyeth, Whitman, and Winona, appaloosa horses named Sun and Moon, and a flock of curly goats.
2016
46.5” diameter round
Watercolor on wood
$14,000
2 Oberon
2015
8” diameter round
Watercolor on canvas
$3,000
3 Titania
2015
8” diameter round
Watercolor on canvas
$3,000
4 Umbriel
2015
5” diameter
Watercolor on canvas
$1,000
5 Ariel
2015
5” diameter
Watercolor on canvas
$1,000
6 Venus
2022
New Mexico micaceous rock on cotton
Painting 8” x 10"
Framed 11” x 13”
$1,150
7 Uranus
2022
Earth and mineral pigments on cotton
Painting 8” x 10"
Framed 11” x 13”
$1,150
8 Pluto
2022
New Mexico earth and mineral pigments and piñon ash on cotton
Painting 8” x 10"
Framed 11” x 13”
$1,150
9 Saturn
2022
New Mexico earth and mineral pigments on cotton
Painting 8” x 10"
Framed 11” x 13”
$1,150
10Neptune
2022
Earth and mineral pigments on cotton
Painting 8” x 10"
Framed 11” x 13”
$1,150
11Mercury
2022
New Mexico dirt and micaceous rock and juniper ash on cotton
Painting 8” x 10"
Framed 11” x 13”
$1,150
12Mars
2022
New Mexico mineral pigments on cotton
Painting 8” x 10"
Framed 11” x 13”
$1,150
13Jupiter
2022
New Mexico earth and mineral pigments on cotton
Painting 8” x 10"
Framed 11” x 13”
$1,150
2015
8" diameter round
Watercolor on canvas
$2,000
15 Red Planet
2015
8" diameter round
Watercolor on canvas
$2,000
2020
12" diameter round
Earth and mineral pigments on cotton
$3,000
2014
20” x 24”
Watercolor on linen
$4,000
2015
11” x 14”
Watercolor on linen
$4,000
2015
24” x 36”
Watercolor and oil on canvas
$10,100
20 Life on Mars
2015
8” diameter round
Watercolor on canvas
$4,000
2015
8” diameter
Watercolor on canvas
$3,000
22 Pluto Fly By
July 14th 2015
20” diameter round
Watercolor on canvas
$5,700
23 Charon
10” diameter round
Watercolor on canvas
$2,000
2016
24” x 30”
Watercolor and oil on linen
$6,700
2020
12” diameter round
Earth pigment and charcoal on canvas
$3,000
26 Planet Mauve
2021
12” diameter round
Earth and mineral pigments on cotton
$3,000
27 Milk Moon
2017
16" diameter round
Watercolor on canvas
$4,000
EXHIBITIONS AT FOLKLORE STUDIO
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A collection of works by contemporary artists who create with earth, mineral, and botanical pigments; featuring Stella Maria Baer, Alysha Colangeli, Heather Bird Harris, and Meg Jorgenson. Each artist's works draw from a deep connection to the land, and are made from the earth by hand. This show reveals the interconnectedness of all things: our bodies, the earth, the plants, the celestial spheres, made of one and the same elements.
Show title EARTHLY BODIES written by Stella Maria Baer.
August 26 to October 8, 2023