Jason Galligan Baldwin
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Jason Galligan Baldwin STATEMENT My work is based on childhood stories. Some are true, some imaginative and influenced by materials of my youth, including progress reports, childhood books, school assignments, random doodles or drawings. Things most people threw away, I kept. It is a timeline full of failures, successes, and an apparent obsession to drawing houses, skateboarders, strange women, and astronauts. I am interested in how these items, however mundane, have influenced my personality. Arrows give directions; text, random antennae, and voice bubbles carry signals and clues for the viewer to migrate from panel to panel, from image to image, giving hints to past experiences while producing new ones to be regarded. Each painting portrays a moment in time suspended separately from my past and present self; rather it exists in a state of ambiguity. This allows the paintings to take whatever shape, form, or childlike narrative they choose. BIO Jason Galligan-Baldwin, aka Art2D2 Industries, was born in Durham, North Carolina. He grew up in Alexandria, Louisiana where he attended Louisiana State University at Alexandria from 1994-1996 on the Elizabeth M. Bolton Art Scholarship. In May 2001, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with an emphasis in painting. He received his MFA, emphasis in painting + printmaking, from The University of Mississippi in 2004. Jason has exhibited his artwork in solo, juried (international, national, and regional), and group shows and has won many awards, including four Best of Shows and an Artist’s Grant to attend the Vermont Studio Center. His work is included in the permanent collections of The University of Southern Indiana, The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, the Laurel Arts League, the Meridian Museum of Art, and several other private and permanent collections. Jason is currently an Associate Professor of Art and Studio Arts Coordinator at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. He lives with his wife, son and daughter, and dog in Montpelier, Vermont ARTIST CONTACT [click to email] IMAGE DETAILS
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