Press release
Baldwin Gallery is proud to announce its fourth show with artist Stephen Dean, ATLAS. The artworks explore remembrance, recollection, and transformation.
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.
Images are available upon request. Please call 970.920.9797 for further information.