Current Exhibition

Joan Baldwin : Pleasant Bay - the furniture at Cape Cod

February 3 - 28, 2010

First Friday Reception: February 5, 5-7:30 pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, February 27, 4-6 pm

The name Pleasant Bay refers to the location of the paintings, where there is a furniture family consisting of four chairs, a table, a bath tub and a toilet that are visiting Cape Cod, naively enjoying their explorations. The show in the main gallery consists of large paintings of scenes of the path at Pleasant Bay as well as smaller detailed paintings of the furniture family exploring. In the center gallery there is an installation consisting of an actual chair in the middle of the room which is contemplating how it can get into a nesting area of a mural size painting on the wall. The chair is beautiful in its pearly pink finish and obviously from another world.

There is a history of furniture in Joan’s paintings and pastels that extends back many years. With this new series of paintings at Pleasant Bay, Joan continues her use of furniture, this time where the surreal situations occur in natural settings.

Joan Baldwin
Title: Pleasant Bay Path #1
Oil on canvas, 60"x51"

Joan Baldwin
Titles: Lookout Point and Shell Fishing
Oil on canvas, 16"x20"

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