Sculptor - Caroline Baker is an innovative sculptor who transforms Lucite -- as well as metals like bronze, steel, and brass -- into organic and light-capturing forms.   Her art spans the spectrum from industrial pieces to mobiles and stabiles. She is  one of a handful of artists in the United States working with Lucite to create dynamic forms.  Caroline's installations are currently found in private and corporate collections, in both outdoor and indoor spaces.  She has been invited to show at the Limner Gallery and Gallerie L'Enfant in Washington, D.C. and the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago.  She manipulates materials to create multi-dimensional organic forms that generate a sense of fluid movement in their environment.  Ms. Baker expresses her art through pieces suitable for both indoor and outdoor collections.  In the midst of ongoing careers in landscape architecture and photography, she turned her attention in 1994 to sculpture as a third career. Beginning with works created from bronze, chrome, brass, and steel, in both the "constructivist" and "biomorphic"  traditions, she later began working with acrylic rods and sheets. Her sculptures embrace the negative space within them and reach out in soaring forms.  Attracting rays of light from beyond and radiating in ways that produce unique and unexpected mixtures of colors and illusionary shapes.  The seemly indefinite untangled process challenges and tantalizes the viewer.  Ms. Baker's works, from early series "unfolding,"  which was constructed in a variety of metals, to recent monumental works in acrylic, including a number of public and private commissions, evoke profound emotions and reinvigorate the viewer's imagination with their radiant incandescence of color. Her pieces are rich with a sense of exploration and experimentation, yet each remains instantly identifiable as one of her creations. Even though she has used a variety of materials and techniques, executed work in widely different scales, and been inspired by infinity of varied themes, her work is united by far more than the remarkable beauty of each individual sculpture. Each piece has integrity both implicit in its content and explicit in its own form, reflecting Ms. Baker's fundamental convection that all life is interconnected through the passage of light.  Her background has shaped Caroline Baker's work.  Her forms are influenced by formal training in architecture at Columbia University and in landscape architecture at Harvard University, where she was a graduate student after receiving her B.A. from Barnard College -- less formal, but nevertheless distinct, influence has come from her mentor, the sculptor John Safer.                                                                  -- Living Artists, 13th Edition