Education
She graduated from Universidade Santa Úrsula, with a Bachelor"s degree in Architecture, and from Parsons School of Design with a master’s degree in 1985.
She graduated from Universidade Santa Úrsula, with a Bachelor"s degree in Architecture, and from Parsons School of Design with a master’s degree in 1985.
She creates organic forms and subjects using inorganic materials e.g., “Untitled”, (1985) stone, wood boxes, bulbs and electric wire, and "Como vai você, Geração 80? ”, (1984), Steel. “Como vai você, Geração 80?” is incorporated into and organic material (water) and it flows throughout the water seamlessly. Sculptures such as “Dormindo em Veneza ”, (1990), “Bolo ”, (1990), and Não classificado, (1992) incorporate puffs of steel wool and sheets of steel that shimmer like constellations.
Others take the form of fences and screens to evoke mass and space e.g.
Untitled, (1988) iron flexible, plates and stones and Untitled, (1991) steel rods and wire. Latent references to women's work are also incorporated in her sculptures.
The artist also knits and weaves thin thread into womb and bag-like forms like in her sculpture “Swirls Bege", (2008). Baranek’s overwhelming tangles and whiskered sacs refer to the sexual symbol of women's hair.
This is not only a symbol of inclination, but of danger as well.
Other materials used in her sculptures are stones, springs, bars, glass, air chambers, tires, rubber balls, water, sand, et cetera In 1984, in a selected group exhibition called "Como vai você, Geração 80?” at the Escola de Artes Visuais in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, Baranek created a stained plastic buoy floating in Rodrigo de Freitas Lake. The buoy is similar to the shape of the Dois Irmãos Mountain, that is close to the exhibition and is 0.9 meters wide and 30. meters lougitude
The buoy is surrounded by water.
The sculpture’s satin surface that is silver reflects light bouncing off the water. Baranek’s sculptures reflect a skewed reality, strangeness, and unexpected poetical relationships.
1985 Petite Galerie, Rio de Janeiro
In 1985, Baranek presented Balão or “Balloon” at the Petit Gallerie in Rio de Janeiro. Upending expectations of gravity, the sculptor reversed the role of rock and balloon.
The rock is suspended in the air and appears to be restrained from floating away by the strings that are attached to the balloon.
1988 Galeria Sérgio Millet, Rio de Janeiro
1990 Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo
1993 Stux Gallery, New York
1996 Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo
1999 Louisiana Maison du Brésil, Brussels
2001 Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo
2004 Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania Galeria, Rio de Janeiro
2006 Frida Baranek - Lavish Pause / Lange Pause - Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg.
