As an illusionistic painter in New York during the “Art of the Real” and anti-illusionistic movements, I made highly illusionistic paintings of sports clothing and equipment and cut them out. They were large scale, much larger than life, with vivid and industrial colors. When they were free of the picture plane and mounted on a gray wall, they were both an object in real space and an illusion of a real thing. The scale and hot color also alluded to “Pop”, but I am interested in “good” painting, and look to Velasquez, Hals, Sargent and Alex Katz, my long time mentor for the way to capture light on specific surfaces
Peter Frank, said in Art News, November 1977, “her skill, her odd sense of scale (things larger than life but smaller than pop) and the ambiguity between imagehood and objecthood provoked by her shaping the unmounted canvases all give Baron’s works a powerful presence.”