Austin Eddy, The Mermaid, 2024. Oil and flashe on canvas, 40 × 68 inches
Austin Eddy, The Mermaid, 2024. Oil and flashe on canvas, 40 × 68 inches

Austin Eddy

Ooples And Banoonoos

13 February – 9 March, 2025

Opening reception, Thursday, 13 February, 6–8 pm


Stephen Dean

ATLAS

13 February – 9 March, 2025

Opening reception, Thursday, 13 February, 6–8 pm

ATLAS, 2024
Unique archival pigment print on watercolor paper,
43 × 35-1/2 inches

Stephen Dean, ATLAS, 2024, Unique archival pigment print on watercolor paper, 43 × 35-1/2 inches

Press release

Baldwin Gallery is proud to announce its third show with Austin Eddy, Ooples And Banoonoos, featuring multimedia works by the artist. It is accompanied by our fourth show with artist Stephen Dean, ATLAS. The shows run from February 13 – March 9, 2025. The artworks explore remembrance, recollection, and transformation.

Austin Eddy’s sculptures and paintings explore aspects of the human condition and serve as a metaphor for the human experience, including fragility and death. Sculptures ranging from birds to fish explore evolution. Central to these works is the duality of life and the appreciation of living, noting the progression of being born, growing, and then withering. With his paintings, using abstraction though minor alterations, the concept of the idea of change engages the viewer. It highlights that if one such thing changes in the mind’s eye it also changes your perspective.

Austin Eddy (b. 1986, Boston, MA) earned his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He has been exhibited nationally and internationally including at Livie Fine Art, Zurich, CH; Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Académie Conti, Consortium, Dijon, FR; Galerie Knust Kunz, Munich, DE; Half Gallery, New York, NY; SoCo Gallery, Charlotte, NC; The University of Kentucky Hospital, Lexington, KY; The Horticultural Society of New York, NY; The Pit, Los Angeles, CA; Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg, SE; The De La Cruz Collection, Miami, FL; The Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI; The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI; The New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH; and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, among others.

Colorist Stephen Dean derives his ideas from watercolor. Experimenting with new materials, this series of watercolors is painted on translucent cigarette paper, creating a vibrant yet ephemeral depiction of landscapes, seascapes, and horizons, which hover between presence and dissolution. He emphasizes the immediacy of color by its ability to transcend language and create movement, while underlining a relationship to nature. Small sequences are organized as storyboards, and this sequence creates and demonstrates the rhythm and vibration of color. Larger unique prints give guidance to the smaller works. Ranging from vivid landscapes to traces that verge on abstraction, at times the colors evoke memory rather than literal depictions of place, and remote mindscapes invite you to come closer.

Stephen Dean (b. 1968, Paris, France) lives and works in New York City. Notable exhibitions and collections include the National Academy of Design NY; Copenhagen Contemporary; The Perez Museum, Miami, FL; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Guggenheim Museum, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv; and Museo Jumex, Mexico City, among others.

The public is invited to meet the artists at the opening reception at the gallery on February 13th from 6-8 pm. Images are available upon request. Please call 970.920.9797 for further information.