Alexis Rockman

Press release

Baldwin Gallery is proud to announce its seventh show with internationally acclaimed painter Alexis Rockman. Rockman’s work examines the abrupt cognitive dissonance between man’s place in the natural world, and man’s place in his own philosophical conceptions. With deceptive tranquility, Rockman renders exquisite warning: catastrophic visions of climate change and extinction crash though meticulous surfaces and lush portrayals. In Rockman’s post anthropocene realism, the sores scab over slowly: swarms bloated to over-hunger on the detritus of ecological imbalance, overripe and heavy in ravenous collapse. The son of an archeologist, Alexis Rockman has long been involved in worldwide conservation efforts. Rockman transforms darkly complex scientific realities with deft emotional depth charges of beauty, destruction, and shattering loss.

Alexis Rockman, a New York based artist and graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, shows extensively both in America and in Europe. In 2010, Alexis Rockman had a mid-career retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and his concept drawings for the art direction of the 2012 movie “Life of Pi” were shown at The Drawing Center in New York in 2013, from 2018-20 Rockman’s “Great Lakes Cycle” will be at Grand Rapids Art Museum; Chicago Cultural Center; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland.

Images are available upon request. Please call 970.920.9797 for further information.