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Allison Baker doesn’t hesitate to compare her artwork to the interior of a ‘90s Taco Bell. As the artist and educator sees it, the Mexican fast-food chain’s dining room represents a “very particular intersection of class and aesthetic,” and encapsulates the tone she is always striving for in her work.
“It’s like when you think about the cartoons from the ‘90s, they were super gross,” said Baker, who lives in Minneapolis. “They were really cute and sort of twee, but disgusting and kind of vile.”
That aesthetic is on full display in Baker’s latest exhibit, “Laundry / Landscapes,” which is currently showing at Syracuse University’s Random Access Gallery through Friday. It’s a combination of large “soft sculpture” pieces constructed out of various fabrics, and a series of paper collages made from a material called Color-aid.