{"data":{"id":"23965","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":23965,"topgoose_id":16638,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":23965,"title":"Ride to Live, Live to Ride","display_artist_text":"Kristin Baker","display_date":"2004","accession_number":"2005.107a-c","dimensions":"Overall: 120 1/4 × 180 in. (305.4 × 457.2 cm)","medium":"Acrylic and metal screws on PVC, three parts","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"Gift of Jeffrey Deitch","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eKristin Baker, \u003cem\u003eRide to Live, Live to Ride\u003c/em\u003e, 2004. Acrylic and metal screws on PVC, three parts, overall: 120 1/4 × 180 in. (305.4 × 457.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Jeffrey Deitch 2005.107a-c. © Kristin Baker\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRide to Live, Live to Ride\u003c/i\u003e is rooted in Kristin Baker's biography: the large-scale painting's title, electric palette, shiny PVC support, and intimations of speed allude to an interest in auto racing that was fostered by her parents. \u003ci\u003eRide to Live, Live to Ride\u003c/i\u003e conveys a sense of speed, violence, and directness, not only through its overlapping layers and fragmented forms, but also through engaging the tensions between formal abstraction and representation. Shards of color radiate outward from its center, and the composition is punctuated by passages of translucent gray that suggest plumes of smoke. \"I strive for the sound and the smell, the two key elements of being at a race,” Baker notes. “I want that feeling to be in the painting.”\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"A swirling burst of gray and colorful fragments radiates outward like abstract confetti and ribbons.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T17:33:37.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:01:16.632-05:00","images":[{"id":107047,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/23965/2005_107a-c_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"9734","type":"artist"}]}}}}