The Baldwin Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Aspen, Colorado established by Richard Edwards in 1994. The gallery features a variety of mainly American but also international contemporary artists and works including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video and installation-based work.

History

The gallery was founded in 1994 by Edwards along with the prominent Aspen businessman and philanthropist,

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. As stated in the New York Times obituary for Mr. Baldwin in 2005: The gallery opened in a small space but moved in 1997 to a purpose built space in the historic Brand Building in downtown Aspen. Baldwin died in 2005 but the gallery has continued under Edwards' management. In "A Report from Colorado", in Art in America (February 2007), Aspen is described as "A mountain town as rich in beauty as it is in per capita net worth, Aspen has a small but important art scene. Its main venues for contemporary art are the

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and the Baldwin Gallery." In the body of the article the Baldwin Gallery is described by

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as "the serious" commercial gallery in town. The gallery's efforts to present world-renowned artists in the city of Aspen has been acknowledged at both international and national levels and with continuing enthusiastic support from serious art journals around the world. Baldwin Gallery was recently included in international art magazine Modern Painters' comprehensive list of the ‘Top 500 Galleries in the World’ in a special issue for summer 2013. Baldwin Gallery is the only gallery in Colorado, and the only American gallery located in a city with a population less than 100,000 to be included. The gallery features solo and group exhibitions of the gallery artists, special projects, and the production of publications relating to the exhibition program.

Artists

Artists featured at the Baldwin Gallery have included: Donald Baechler, Jennifer Bartlett,

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, Delia Brown, James Lee Byars, Sarah Charlesworth, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Greg Colson,

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, Stephen Dean, Carroll Dunham, Eric Fischl, Adam Fuss, Ewan Gibbs,

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, Tim Hailand, Peter Halley, Lyle Ashton Harris, Todd Hido,

Craigie Horsfield Craigie Horsfield (born 1949 in Cambridge) is an English artist. In 1996 he was nominated for the annual Turner Prize. Horsfield described his work (photographs of the environments and people around him) as, "intimate in scale but its ambition is, ...

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, Alex Katz, Annette Lemieux,

David Levinthal David Lawrence Levinthal (born March 8, 1949) is an American photography, photographer who lives and works in New York City. He uses small toys and props with dramatic lighting to construct miniature environments for subject matters varying from ...

, Glenn Ligon, Andrew Lord, Martin Maloney,

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, Enrique Martinez Celaya,

Ryan McGinness Ryan Joseph McGinness (born January 9, 1972) is an American artist, living and working in Manhattan, New York. Known for his original extensive vocabulary of graphic drawings which use the visual language of public signage, corporate logos, ...

, Marilyn Minter,

Malcolm Morley Malcolm A. Morley (June 7, 1931 – June 1, 2018) was a British-American artist and painter. He was known as an artist who pioneered in varying styles, working as a photorealist and an expressionist, among many other styles. Life Morley was ...

, Elizabeth Murray, Louise Nevelson, Tony Oursler, Jack Pierson, Alexis Rockman, James Rosenquist,

Tom Sachs Tom Sachs (born July 26, 1966) is an American contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City. Life and early career Sachs was born in New York City on July 26, 1966. He grew up in Westport, Connecticut, attending high school at Gree ...

, David Salle,

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, Mike + Doug Starn, Joseph Stashkevetch,

Pat Steir Pat Steir (born 1940) is an American painter and printmaker. Her early work was loosely associated with conceptual art and minimalism, however, she is best known for her abstract dripped, splashed and poured "Waterfall" paintings, which she s ...

, George Stoll, Donald Sultan,

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, Gavin Turk, James Turrell, Bruce Weber, and

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References

External links

Baldwin Gallery
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