Ever Baldwin’s (b. 1978) paintings probe the porous barriers that separate and frame experience. Working intuitively and with a material immediacy, he sets his thick, matte abstract paintings—made by mixing marble dust and pigment with wax—within burned and blackened hand-carved wooden frames. Baldwin uses the slippages of abstraction to resist legibility and set into motion a constellation of relational meanings: the body becomes landscape as breasts and chest hair slide into roadways and tunnels; the materiality of surfaces mix with mystical and unconscious thoughts; and drag iconography melds with modernist icons. This exhibition—Baldwin’s first solo museum show—charts for visitors these constellations within his works.
Ever Baldwin, Turning Point, 2022, Oil on canvas in charred wood frame, 54 x 42 x 6 inches. © Ever Baldwin. Courtesy Marinaro Gallery, New York.
