Todd Baldwin: Dismantle, Combine
October 3 - November 2, 2014
Opening Reception: Friday, October 3, 6-10pm

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PHILADELPHIA, PA-
Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, a particular strain of artists from Kurt Schwitters to Richard Tuttle have worked to bend our attention to the poetry, surprise, and profundity of the commonplace materials that fill our everyday lives. This mode of art-making argues that an aesthetic experience need not be lodged in a specialized realm of esoteric or precious materials, but that the ephemera, detritus, and waste that drift all around us on a daily basis are as full of expressive potential as bronze, marble, rare pigments, or gold leaf. Working class, lowly debris is perhaps even more capable of enchantment since its unassuming status catches us so off guard.

Our October exhibition features the poetic miscellany of Tiger Strikes Asteroid  member Todd Baldwin. Baldwin approaches making art through exploration and experimentation. A mash-up-maestro, alchemist, scientist, his current work is a series of assemblages that contain found and hand-constructed objects that push discarded materials out of the context of the mundane and into mystical, yet familiar lyrical sculptures.

Todd Baldwin was born in Trenton, New Jersey in 1975. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts in 1997, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2010. Baldwin has exhibited sculpture and photography steadily since the early 1990′s, and joined Tiger Strikes Asteroid in 2013.