Lew Baldwin

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<p class="large">Lew Baldwin (b. 1969; New Brunswick, New Jersey) is an artist and filmmaker whose work spans video installations, film collaborations, painting, internet-based work, and music. His website <a href="https://lewbaldwin.com/redsmoke">redsmoke.com</a> was included in the <a href="/exhibitions/biennial-2000">Whitney Biennial in 2000</a>, and his work <a href="https://lewbaldwin.com/milkmilklemonade"><em>Milk Milk Lemonade</em></a> was shown in the Whitney’s exhibition <a href="/exhibitions/bitstreams"><em>BitStreams</em></a><em>&nbsp;</em>in 2001. He created visual sequences for the feature film <em>November&nbsp;</em>(2004), starring Courteney Cox and James Le Gros, and directed the short film <em>Abraded</em> (2010), which was featured at the Woodstock Film Festival. In 2019 Baldwin returned to painting, seeing it as a natural extension of his digital and motion-based work. His art has been exhibited at the New Museum, New York; the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena; the Art Association of Jackson Hole, Wyoming; the Sundance Film Festival; and in various international venues in Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, and Japan.</p>

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