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Desire Path

Quinci Baker

February 28 – March 21, 2026

Keijsers Koning is pleased to present Desire Path, a solo exhibition by Quinci Baker and her first solo presentation with the gallery. The new work resumes an ongoing multimedia exploration of memory, subliminal connection, and ancestral resonance. By challenging the boundaries between personal narrative and combining it with a collective history, Baker can create a refreshing narrative that challenge these binaries and hover between abstraction and representation. Baker's practice operates in the spaces between prescribed categories, where material itself becomes a carrier of cultural memory.

Baker's creations make use of mixed media, allowing work to take form as she progresses. She resists academic definitions of form, be it sculpture or painting, but instead permits a recontextualization of material and form to create an essence that leads the work forward. This approach echoes the material investigations of post-minimalism and process art yet diverges in its insistence on cultural specificity and the spiritual dimension of making. The exhibition traverse’s dimensions, employing drawing, painting, collage, textile, and sculpture to realize temporal landscapes that exist simultaneously in multiple registers of time and meaning.

Her own social condition serves as her portal to the infinite and the basis from which she sources both physical and conceptual material. This grounding in lived experience speaks to communal histories as sites of radical creativity and transforming the quotidian into the transcendent, the overlooked into the essential.

The “Desire Path” as concept and title emerges through repeated divergence from predetermined routes. They are the informal trails, evidence of where people move rather than where designers intended them to go. As travelers forge their own way, a recognized passage forms, shaped by collective insistence rather than imposed design. These paths are acts of quiet resistance, pragmatic redirections that reshape the built environment from the ground up. Baker transposes this phenomenon into artistic methodology and political metaphor, as both dissent and solidarity. 

Her repurposing of quotidian and culturally weighted materials declares her audience and honors the communities from which this work emerges. Found objects, textiles carrying the trace of domestic labor, materials marked by use and time. As it is used to embody a new configuration, their prior lives remain visible as an undertone.  Baker does not erase but amplifies, allowing materials to speak in their own vernacular while being orchestrated into new visual languages.

The exhibition presents work that is both deeply rooted and deliberately unbounded; honoring origins without confinement; acknowledging lineage while forging new paths forward.

Please contact the gallery at info@keijserskoning.com or call 469.961.5391 for images, additional information, or acquisition of the work.