Amanda Baldwin

Overview

Pressed Celadon Peaks, 2020, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 x 127 cm © Amanda Baldwin, Courtesy of the artist, Hesse Flatow Gallery and Galerie Marguo

Amanda Baldwin was born in Seattle, WA in 1984 and currently lives and works in Queens, NY. She received her BFA from University of Washington and MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Working with traditional modes of depiction, such as landscape painting and still life, Amanda Baldwin starts by separating and considering each individual element within a composition. She approaches these objects, from vases to mountains to melons and their shifted palettes with the intent to morph them into some kind of abstracted facsimile of themselves. By straddling representation and abstraction within each piece she breaks down the familiar and presents playful worlds where uncertainty works itself into concrete forms. Rock, plant; the organic and inorganic, can all produce eerily similar rhythms and patterns within her work. By striking a balance between disintegration and recognition Baldwin imbues new identities to the familiar.

Her recent solo shows include Hesse Flatow (New York, 2020), Thierry Goldberg Gallery (New York, 2019), and 106 Green (New York, 2017). Selected group exhibitions include Y2K Group (New York, 2019), Underdonk Gallery (New York, 2018), Essex Flowers (New York, 2018) and Brennan & Griffin (New York, 2016).

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Biography

Portrait of Amanda Baldwin. Photo: Matthew Warren

Born in Seattle, WA in 1984

Lives and works in Queens, NY

Education

2012	MFA, Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University
2009	BFA, Painting and Printmaking, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
2005	Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Solo Exhibitions

2021	Galerie Marguo, ‘Indigo Skyline’, Paris, France
2020	Hesse Flatow, ‘Raindrops are Spheres’, New York, USA
2019	Thierry Goldberg Gallery, ‘Last Weekend's Lemon’, New York, USA
2017	106 Green, ‘The Rest of the Crowd’, Brooklyn, USA
2013	Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, ‘To Each Their Own’, Richmond, USA

Group Exhibitions

2021	The Hole NYC, ‘Nature Morte', New York, USA
2020	UTA Artist Space, ‘Everyday is Sunday’, Beverly Hills, USA
	Shin Gallery, ‘Shin Haus’, New York, USA
2019	Artual Gallery, ‘In With The New’, Beirut, Lebanon
	Y2K Group, ‘Mushrooms’, New York, USA
	CRUSHCURATORIAL, ‘Surreality’, New York, USA
2018	5-50 Gallery, ‘Graces’, LIC, USA
	Thierry Goldberg Gallery, ‘Another History’, New York, USA
	Underdonk Gallery, ‘Still Lives’, Brooklyn, USA
	Essex Flowers, ‘Home Edition’, New York, USA
2017	Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, ‘August Sun’, Athens, Georgia
	Thierry Goldberg Gallery, ‘Optically Topical’, New York, USA
	106 Green @ NADA, New York, USA
2016	106 Green Presents, Brennan & Griffin, New York, USA
	Mulberry Gallery, ‘Remember When We Were All Objects’, Richmond, USA
2015	Sediment Gallery, 'To: Pluto', Richmond, USA
2014	Art in General, ‘Recuperative Tactics’, New York, USA
	Mint Gallery, ‘Live Amateurs’, Atlanta, Georgia
2012	White Box Gallery, ‘The Sho’, New York, USA
	Anderson Gallery, ‘Thesis Exhibition’, Richmond, USA
	FAB Gallery, ‘Anti-Subjective’, Curated by Lisi Raskin, Richmond, USA
2011	Manchester Flats, ‘Everybody’, Richmond, USA
	Virginia Commonwealth University, ‘We’re All In This Together’, Curated by Gregory Volk, Richmond, USA
2010	FAB Gallery, ‘There Are A Lot of Squares in Here’, Richmond, USA
	Locker 50b, ‘Kleine kunstschätze!’, Richmond, USA
	FAB Gallery, ‘Agent Form’, Richmond, USA
2009	Jacob Lawrence Gallery, BFA Show, Seattle, USA
	Sandpoint Gallery, ‘New Works’, Seattle, USA
	Jacob Lawrence Gallery, ‘School of Art Open’, Seattle, USA
2008	The Art Center, ‘Texas National 2008’, Nacogdoches, USA
	Mary Gates Hall, University of Washington, ‘Student Exhibition’, Seattle, USA
	Jacob Lawrence Gallery, ‘Small and Flat’, Seattle, USA