秘色传媒

For Immediate Release
August 21, 2024

Cliff Baldwin: 鈥淚n All Languages,鈥� an Exhibit of Paintings, Films, and Prints at the 秘色传媒 Eastern Campus from September 4 鈥� October 19, 2024

: Cliff Baldwin; Title: #4958 Size: 48鈥� x 48鈥�; Date 2018 Medium: Acrylic on canvas. For a hi-res photo visit: https://photos.app.goo.gl/M936jD2L91YGx8uNA

Cliff Baldwin: 鈥淚n All Languages,鈥� an exhibit of paintings, films, and prints will be on view at the 秘色传媒 Eastern Campus鈥� Lyceum Gallery located in the Montaukett Building from September 4 through October 19, 2024. There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, September 12 from 4 鈥� 6 p.m.  Refreshments will be served, and all are welcome to attend.

Cliff Baldwin is an interdisciplinary artist with a practice that spans painting, printmaking, sculpture, film, music, and design. Baldwin is fascinated by languages that cross cultural boundaries. In his exhibit, 鈥淚n All Languages,鈥� Baldwin will display multiple forms of universal language: first are his non-verbal protest or parade signs that silently holler the language of art for a rally in the name of color and pure form.  Complete with handles one may parade with them affirming colorist beauty and pleasing shapes.

Additionally, Balwin has found that the fruit and vegetable stickers that inadvertently wind up on one鈥檚 elbow after working in the kitchen contain an international language that includes colors, pictures, and tiny barcode or QR symbols that convey their growers鈥� locations and messages such as 鈥淒ragon Fruit鈥� or 鈥淢ango.鈥� On display are Baldwin鈥檚 5 x 4 ft. paintings of these colorful fruit labels. He also delves into 鈥淓speranto,鈥� a language developed in the late 1800鈥檚 by Russian scholar J.J. Zamenhof, which has become the world鈥檚 most widely spoken universal second languages. Originally developed to create a world without war through intercultural dialogue, Baldwin has adopted Esperanto to create his wood-cut printed banners installed on a clothesline with phrases that translate to 鈥淵es, You,鈥�

Today living in Aquebogue, Cliff Baldwin is originally from Salem, Massachusetts. He received his  Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The Kansas City Art Institute in 1982. Baldwin鈥檚 language-based books, and prints are in the collections of the MoMA, The Brooklyn Museum, the San Francisco MoMA, the Whitney Museum and more. In 1983, Baldwin founded the oversized broadsheet art publication called Aqui. From 1989 鈥� 1995. Baldwin exhibited large scale installations with Fluxus artist Davi Det Hompson in a neo-Fluxus word art duo called Baldwin+Hompson.

His collaborations in 1995-2005 with downtown composer Mikel Rouse produced three groundbreaking video operas that toured internationally.

In 2014, Baldwin created ACME, a music ensemble devoted to presenting new music and historic cinema.  ACME preformed at the Rites of Spring Music Festival from 2016 鈥� 2019 on the East End of Long Island.

Baldwin鈥檚 films and videos have appeared in many venues including the 2010 and 2012 InLight Festival in Richmond Virginia and at the Parrish Art Museum in Watermill in 2015. In 2017, he exhibited his work, 鈥淗ouse of Fubb,鈥� a robotically fabricated pavilion built at the Center for New Art at William Paterson College.  In 2020, Baldwin created an outdoor sound and video mix at the Custer Institute and Observatory in Southold, NY.

Baldwin founded and curated the Harvest Arts Festival at the 1731 Jamesport Meeting House in 2018, where he later curated a suite of historic silent films with live accompaniment that included Baldwin as saxophonist in 2023. He is a founding partner at Lampa, a lighting design firm with wife, Marta Baumiller.

Gallery hours are:

Monday -Thursday 10 a.m. 鈥� 8 p.m.
Friday 10 a.m. 鈥� 4 p.m.
Saturday - closed
Sunday - closed

Call (631) 548-2536 for more information.

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