Baldwin Gallery is delighted to announce a first show with artist Gary Simmons. Often monumental in scale, Simmons’ installations and canvases evoke memory, urban landscapes and 20th century social history. Kinetic and imposing, icons fade with a half-life, a ghostly reminiscence redolent of nascent sidewalk-chalk street art in a mythical 1970s, pre-Giuliani New York.
In this current body of work: ‘Sweet Science’, the viewer is invited into the street, to peer forward into gaps in the hoardings and view the wonders beyond. Vintage posters, manipulated and saturated like formative memories, trumpet supermen to a hungry public: champions loom larger than giants, and shout their names across the lost decades. Their dramatic ascents sear the firmament with their firework lives: brief, inspiring, wonderful. But in the end, these super-hero legends of black America past have fallen and faded to dust.
Born in 1964 in New York, Simmons’ work has been exhibited throughout the US and internationally, including: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; SITE Santa Fe; The Studio Museum in Harlem; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Portland Art Museum, OR; The Saint Louis Art Museum, MO; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York. Simmons lives and works in New York City.
Baldwin Gallery will also be showing new photographs by Tim Hailand. In his work, Hailand often explores images within images: re-photographed portraits and the relationships created by juxtaposition and overlap. Here Hailand has perfected a process of printing photographs on traditional French toile, inspired by his recent residency in Giverny.
The public is invited to meet the artists at the opening reception December 26th from 6-8 pm.
Images are available upon request. Please call 970.920.9797 for further information.
Since 1994, the Baldwin Gallery has been presenting new work by established artists of international renown. In that time, the gallery has earned a reputation as an important venue for contemporary art.
Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 am to 6 pm, and Sunday from Noon to 5 pm. The Baldwin Gallery is located at 209 South Galena Street in Aspen, Colorado.
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