Malado Baldwin, Governor's Island, 2007
Last Saturday I visited Malado Baldwin’s studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, talked with this lively, articulate, and multi-talented artist, saw her numerous works, large and small, in all kinds of media, fell in love with this small painting and bought it. The painting encapsulates the pastoral island against the Manhattan skyline, enthralling in the contrast of shapes -- geometric and woolly -- and of colors from green to pink, and charming in the clumps of trees that I read as a scrimmage of dancers with fluttering feet, which wavers and may at any moment may disperse. It is one of the set of four shown in the New York Studio School’s 2007 Alumni Exhibition , and in my opinion the best of them.
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