The Baldwin Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in

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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 Harley Baldwin, who died in January 2005. 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

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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 Art in America 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, Ross Bleckner, Delia Brown, James Lee Byars,

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, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Peter Coffin, Greg Colson, Will Cotton, Stephen Dean, Carroll Dunham,

Eric Fischl Eric Fischl (born March 9, 1948) is an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, draughtsman and educator. He is known for his paintings depicting American suburbia from the 1970s and 1980s. Life Fischl was born in New York City and grew up on s ...

, Adam Fuss, Ewan Gibbs, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Tim Hailand,

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, Lyle Ashton Harris, Todd Hido, Craigie Horsfield,

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, Annette Lemieux, David Levinthal,

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, Andrew Lord, Martin Maloney,

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, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Ryan McGinness, Marilyn Minter, Malcolm Morley, Elizabeth Murray,

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Jack Pierson Jack Pierson (born 1960 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Plymouth, Massachusetts) is an American photographer and an artist. Pierson is known for his photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings and artists books. His "Self-Portrait ...

, Alexis Rockman,

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, Tom Sachs,

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, Laurie Simmons, Mike + Doug Starn, Joseph Stashkevetch,

Pat Steir Pat Steir (born 1938) 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 sta ...

, George Stoll,

Donald Sultan Donald K. Sultan (born 1951) is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, particularly well known for large-scale still life paintings and the use of industrial materials such as tar, enamel, spackle and vinyl tiles. He has been exhibiting ...

, Philip Taaffe,

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, Bruce Weber, and Matthew Weinstein.

References

External links

Baldwin Gallery
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