Press release
Baldwin Gallery is proud to announce our winter show, Spillways, featuring new sculpture by artist Bryan Hunt, accompanied by The Secret Sugar Creek Sweet Fairy Star Slips Above Lunar Knelt Beneath the Phantasmagorical Pirate of Poetry – new works by artist Nathan Carter from December 26, 2023 – February 10, 2024. The contemporary sculptures and artworks explore themes such as the flow of water, relativity of time, and constellations transporting the viewer to different universes. The public is invited to meet the artists at the opening reception on Tuesday, December 26 from 6-8 pm.
Bryan Hunt is world renowned for his contemporary sculpture which explores themes from waterfalls to prominent landmarks, and the Baldwin Gallery will be showcasing his Spillways in aluminum and bronze. They recall his fascination with nature — the resulting work is the unique coexistence of upward-soaring movements and the downward, flowing plunges that follow. While working with heavyweight materials, Hunt creates large sculptures that seemingly defy gravity.
Hunt’s work is represented in many prestigious collections, including the Whitney Museum; the Museum of Modern Art; the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. Hunt currently lives and works in New York.
Nathan Carter is celebrated for his visionary interpretations and personifications of fictional works, which combine storytelling, illustration, outer space, various subcultures, and myriad abstractions. These create intentional works that embody the exchange of ideas, advancements of understanding, and profound movements of thought through color. Suspended off the wall, Carter’s sculptures read as drawings in space. Their fluidity demonstrates an untethering from the here and now. Carter’s studio practice subverts linear identifications of current life and past histories, creating a sense of timelessness.
Carter studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston and received his MFA from the Yale University School of Art. His work is represented in world class collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Art Gallery of Toronto; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Miami Art Museum; and Tate Modern, London, among others. The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Images are available upon request. Please call 970.920.9797 for further information.