My image is freedom. It is not the freedom of expression but rather an expression of freedom. My work chronicles the journey of Pam becoming Pammm, a fully shaved and sexually enlightened human being and celebrates her discovery that she was not born deformed but identical to everyone else. It is about dropping the veil to uncover what was hidden and unaddressed for decades, if not centuries. It is about her pudendum, which ironically comes from the Latin root pudere, which means “to be ashamed” or “to feel shame”. My work attempts to devalue porn by adopting Takashi Murakami’s definition/classification of sex in a Superflat society where there is no distinction between naughty/wrong/evil sex and goody/right/holy sex. “It is all sex. It is all superflat.” After shaving my “pudendum” I felt a strange sense of freedom. Without the hair it was no longer mysteriously dark and deep. It became a cartoon: flat, cute and approachable. The personal became political. The autobiographical figures in my paintings are colorful caricatures that reside in Toonsville or the Garden of Eden (which ever you prefer) – a “shameless” place where one’s head can fall off and be easily reattached, where obstacles are hopelessly harmless and where raw sex resembles bubblegum. I employ irony and satire to arouse and humor the mind with images that contradict and challenge. My images toy with our hypocrisies, our denials and our deepest desires. They are unembellished and beautifully honest. When viewing my work we feel like we have walked into an unlocked but occupied bathroom. We jump around as if we are completely embarrassed even if we are not. We giggle. We squirm. We slam the door shut. We take a deep breath as we walk away laughing for behaving so childishly.

2006 Pharmaka Art Gallery, Small Wonders, Juror: Tyler Stallings, Chief Curator of Laguna Art Museum, Los Angeles, California 2006 11th Annual Georgetown Open Studio & Art Walk, Georgetown, Washington 2006 Pam Baker: Paintings Without Borders” Engagent, Inc., Kenmore, Washington 2005 Art at the Hotel Max, Four Paintings, Curator, Tessa Papas, Seattle, Washington 2005 Selected Artists, Musa Design. Curator, Allison Faye Moody, Seattle. Washington 2004 Seattle Academy of Fine Art, Instructor Show, Seattle Art Museum Rental Gallery 2004 Objects of Devotion, Video Installation, Steel Gallery, Seattle, Washington 2004 Works on Paper II, Seattle Academy of Fine Art, Seattle, Washington 2004 Special Projects: Art Faculty Show, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington 2003 The Golden Section, Paintings and video, Seattle Academy of Fine Art, Seattle, Washington 2003 Pam Baker: Stars and Stripes, Tully’s, Ballard, Washington 2003 Faculty Art Exhibit, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, Washington 2003 12th Annual Edwin T. Pratt Memorial Exhibition, Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic, Seattle, Washington 2002 The Portrait Project, (video) Curator, Matthew Kangas, “Bumberbiennale 2002 Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington 2002 Pam Baker: “Portals”, Paintings and Video, Pitcairn Scott Gallery, Seattle, Washington 2002 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Kirkland Arts Center Gallery, Kirkland, Washington 2002 Pratt instructor Exhibit 2002, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, Washington 2000 Red. Colors, Symbols and Emotions”, Juror: Sid Sachs, Director of Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery. The University of Arts, Philadelphia, Gallery 212, Montclair, New Jersey 1999 Pacific Northwest Annual”, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington 1998 Works on Paper. Phinney Neighborhood Association Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington 1995 Art in the Vineyard, Alton Baker Park, Eugene, Oregon 1994 Pam Baker: Stripes, William White Gallery, Eugene, Oregon 1993 New Works: Four Artists, William White Gallery, Eugene, Oregon 1992 Old Members Show”, New Zone Gallery, Eugene, Oregon 1988 Art Farm Festival. Open Studios, Art Farm, Sonoma, California 1988 Cats and White Doves, Paintings by Pam Baker, La Gotoma Gallery, Marbella, Spain 1987 New Members. New Paintings, New Zone Gallery, Eugene, Oregon 1987 1st Annual Invitational Alumni Art Show, Collier House, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 1986 Painting and Prints, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon 1986 Pam Baker: Recent Work, Jacobs Gallery, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene, Oregon 1985 Pam Baker: New Paintings, Creative Arts Guild Gallery, Albany, Oregon 1985 American Figure Drawing Show of 1985, Phoenix Arts Association, San Francisco, California 1984 Juried Art Show, Jacobs Gallery, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene, Oregon