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The Baldwin Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Aspen, CO owned and founded by Richard Edwards. The gallery represents a wide range of American and International leading contemporary artists. The gallery deals in 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. As stated in the New York Times obituary for Mr. Baldwin in 2005: “After meeting Mr. Edwards, a lawyer and art collector, in 1994, Mr. Baldwin opened Baldwin Gallery and became an art-world player almost overnight. His vast social circle and salesmanship let him mount successful shows of work by New York artists like Jennifer Bartlett, Ross Bleckner and Carroll Dunham, and his gallery helped raise Aspen's profile as a resort with culture as well as glitter.” The gallery opened in a small space but moved in 1997 to a purpose built 8,000 square foot space in the historic Brand Building in downtown Aspen. Mr. Baldwin died in 2005 but the gallery has continued under the stewardship of Mr. Edwards. 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 Aspen Art Museum 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.

The gallery maintains a diverse exhibition program with solo exhibitions of the gallery artists as well as group exhibitions, special projects, and the production of publications relating to the exhibition program. Placing particular emphasis on American artists, but showing critically-acclaimed artists from all over the world, the Baldwin Gallery has exhibited amongst others: Donald Baechler, Jennifer Bartlett, Ross Bleckner, Delia Brown, James Lee Byars, Sarah Charlesworth, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Greg Colson, Will Cotton, Stephen Dean, Carroll Dunham, Eric Fischl, Adam Fuss, Ewan Gibbs, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Tim Hailand, Peter Halley, Lyle Ashton Harris, Todd Hido, Craigie Horsfield, Bryan Hunt, Alex Katz, Annette Lemieux, David Levinthal, Glenn Ligon, Andrew Lord, Martin Maloney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Ryan McGinness, Marilyn Minter, Malcolm Morley, Elizabeth Murray, Louise Nevelson, Tony Oursler, Jack Pierson, Alexis Rockman, James Rosenquist, Michal Rovner, Tom Sachs, David Salle, Laurie Simmons, Mike + Doug Starn, Joseph Stashkevetch, Pat Steir, George Stoll, Donald Sultan, Philip Taaffe, James Turrell, Bruce Weber, and Matthew Weinstein. .

External links: Baldwingallery.com Baldwin Gallery on Artnet.com

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