Arlene Baker’s “Silk Spaces” series evolved from her earlier work, which explored subtle interplays of color, horizon, and space, in the context of large free-hanging paintings and gouache paintings on paper. Where the color field artist Morris Louis veiled his canvases with poured layers of paint, Arlene’s Silk Spaces paintings hide a painted surface under layers of diaphanous silk. These elements interact to create an evasive world of their own. All paintings are a uniform 8” and 20” size and shape and relate to each other as if in a family.