Press release
Baldwin Gallery is proud to present our eighth show with contemporary figurative artist Enrique Martínez Celaya: new paintings and sculpture in a show entitled The Pale Threshold. Martínez Celaya’s works highlight the disorienting effects of atmospheric changes when the senses first recognize the underlying alteration connected by his vivid dreamscape imagery. He presents this awareness as familiar to all exiles, who must construct from leftover impressions an imagined world and identity wherein one exchanges a known reality for a projection created by the imagination. Martínez Celaya’s personal iconographies populate the works and seek to confront issues of identity, loss, and connection, producing potent mnemonic sensory monuments to memory and longing.
Born in Palos, Cuba in 1964, Martínez Celaya relocated with his family to Spain at eight years old, and then to the US a few years later. An author who has published influential books and papers in art, poetry, and philosophy, and a former scientist, Martínez Celaya is the inventor of several patented laser devices. Works by the artist are held in public collections internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford. Among many major solo shows and projects he has exhibited at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Berliner Philharmonie, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., and the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, among many others.
Images are available upon request. Please call 970.920.9797 for further information.