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Olivia Baldwin

@oliviaebaldwin

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Artist, educator, curator based in Providence, RI

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Thank you for the review, Mark Jenkins!
Link to the review in my bio or copy and paste: https://discerningeye.substack.com/p/paper-anniversaries taken in Cody Gallery by @oliviaebaldwin

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17 days ago

Terrane, with Sarah Hardesty and Lisa Perez, is on view through October 9 at Marymount University’s Cody Gallery (Arlington, VA)!

This is my first time showing in VA/the DC area and I hope you can join us for the artist talk on Thursday, October 1 at 4 pm (Ballston Center Auditorium), followed by a 5-7 pm reception in the gallery.

“In this exhibition, Olivia Baldwin, Sarah Hardesty, and Lisa Perez consider terrane—a block of the earth’s crust
formed on one tectonic plate and later amassed on another of differing materials—as a metaphor for
explorations of nature, time, memory, and materiality in their abstract sculptures, drawings, and paintings.“

Many thanks to Mary Proenza ( @maryproenza ), Sarah Hardesty ( @hardestyart ) and Lisa Perez (@lperezoo ).

1. Olivia Baldwin, Sun to Meet Your Shoulders (detail), 2011-2025, Wood, wire, acrylic, scrap leather and suede, upholstery tacks, 87 x 20 x 1 in, photo by @elizabeth_ellenwood
2. Lisa Perez ( @lperezoo ), Remote Alliance, 2026
3. Sarah Hardesty (@hardestyart ), Anchored, 2022, Vinyl on sourced rocks, Dimensions variable taken in Marymount University by @oliviaebaldwin

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ReFrame, featuring @adriaarch @toryfairsculpture @annakristinagoransson @kateholcombhale and me, is now on view at the @oldschwambmill in Arlington, MA. ReFrame is curated by @adriaarch . This is my first time exhibiting in my hometown, and I’m thrilled to show with these artists and within this space (check out the @oldschwambmill ‘s beautiful wooden oval frames). The opening reception is a week from Saturday, September 26, from 2-3:30 pm. I’d love to see you!

It feels particularly special to show this work so close to where I grew up, and so close to where I first found the small rolls of leather that have shaped my work of the past couple of years. The leather was my mother’s and I found it in my stepdad’s attic, less than a mile from the Mill, a few years after she passed. I felt charged to use it.

The first image features a new sawhorse, my most minimal to date, with some of my mother’s silver leather, given to her when a friend of a friend’s accessory business closed. It’s called “Workhorse (for Croskey women),” to honor the long line of tireless women in our family. It came quickly in the days following Dolly Parton’s death. It called for silver.

Reframe is on view through November 14.
Artist Panel on Saturday, October 24, 2-3:30 pm
Closing Reception: November 14, 2-3:30 pm

Special thank you to @anpelletier21 for giving me this perfect sawhorse found in her grandmother’s basement. taken in Old Schwamb Mill by @oliviaebaldwin

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Olivia Baldwin, Untitled (twin), 2025-2026, Box spring, scrap and inherited leather and suede, brads, 75 x 38 x 7 in., Elizabeth Ellenwood Photography

@oliviaebaldwin

#oliviabaldwin #artistssupportingartists #dimensionsvariable #dvmiami #contemporaryart by @oliviaebaldwin

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Summer studio snaps! Working toward a few exciting group shows in VA, MA, and CT this fall. Better photos and details to come.

1. Oil, inherited and scrap leather and upholstery tacks, 20 x 16 in.
2. Oil, acrylic, inherited and scrap leather, upholstery tacks, around 22 x 18 in.
3. Inherited and scrap leather, acrylic, upholstery tacks, 20 x 16 in.
4. Oil, scrap leather, upholstery tacks
5. Oil, scrap leather, upholstery tacks taken in Providence, Rhode Island by @oliviaebaldwin

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2 months ago

Today and tomorrow are the final days to see @babsowen and my show, “Slip,” at @overlapnewport curated by @alicia.renadette . Visit today from 12-5 pm and join us tomorrow from 1:30-3:30 pm for the closing reception, reading with extraordinary writers + artists @emdash.jpg and @kyliehaylightly , and release of @babsowen ‘s screen print (get yours!).

I’m so grateful to show this new work alongside @babsowen and adjacent to @hart.jai . Huge thanks to @overlapnewport @alicia.renadette @smmartmaker @scswiftt and all who have visited. I’d love to see you tomorrow!

All photos by @elizabeth_ellenwood ! While you’re at it, go see her show, “Merge,” at @salveregina ! taken in Overlap by @oliviaebaldwin

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7 months ago

Thank you to everyone who joined us this past Saturday, February 21st for our Artists talks and exhibition walk-through with Jai Hart, Barbara Owen, and Olivia Baldwin.

It was wonderful to have so many enthusiastic and engaging conversations around their work and studio practices. These two exhibitions: “The Wall Wanted to Play Too: The Architecture of Tenderness” by Jai Hart, and “Slip” by Barbara Owen and Olivia Baldwin will be on View for one more week! Stop by during Gallery hours before they close March 7th.

Join us Sunday, March 8th from 1:30 - 3:30pm to say farewell to these exhibitions during our closing event, which will include poetry readings and a silkscreen Print Release by Barbara Owen. This Print is available now on our website for purchase.

📸 Photos by the talented @elizabeth_ellenwood

#contemporarysculpture #painting #fiberarts #newportRI #contemporarygallery taken in Overlap by @oliviaebaldwin

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8 months ago

This is the second to last weekend to see “Slip,” my show with @babsowen at @overlapnewport , presented alongside @hart.jai ‘s wonderful solo, “The Wall Wanted to Play Too: The Architecture of Tenderness.”

1. Contact 23, 2025, Scrap and inherited leather, upholstery tacks, acrylic, 12 x 10 in.
2. Contact 27, 2025, Scrap leather and inherited leather, upholstery tacks, acrylic, 12 x 10 in.
3. Contact 26, 2025, Scrap and inherited leather, upholstery tacks, acrylic, 12 x 10 in.
4. Contact 28, 2025, Scrap and inherited leather, upholstery tacks, acrylic, 10 x 8 in.
5. Contact 21, 2025, Scrap and inherited leather, upholstery tacks, acrylic, 10 x 8 in.
All photos by @elizabeth_ellenwood ✨ taken in Overlap by @oliviaebaldwin

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8 months ago

CLOSING EVENT: Sunday, March 8, 2026
1:30-3:30 pm

Join us Sunday, March 8th for our closing event for our current exhibitions. We will be presenting readings by poet and essayist Emily Pittinos and poet and visual artist Kylie Gellatly. These readings have been selected by exhibiting artist Olivia Baldwin.

During this event, Barbara Owen will release her limited edition silkscreen, “Underlap and Overlap.” A limited edition of 15 unframed prints are available for purchase now on our website (link in bio.) The prints may be received at, or after, the release party. @babsowen
“”Underlap and Overlap”, a small edition silkscreen was developed alongside the works in this exhibition and extends my use of the grid as a compositional tool. Here, the grid operates as both structure and surface—sometimes singular, sometimes all-over—while shapes are woven through it to create depth, rhythm, and movement.” - Barbara Owen

Image #5: “Vinegar” poetry collage by Kylie Gellatly

Kylie Gellatly is the author of The Fever Poems (Finishing Line Press). Her work has appeared in Fence, Ninth Letter, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. Kylie has received support from the Vermont Studio Center, Juniper Writing Institute, and Disquiet International Literary Program.
@kyliehaylightly

Emily Pittinos is a Great Lakes poet and essayist teaching in Providence, RI. Pittinos has received a 2022 Literature Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, as well as support from Vermont Studio Center, the Alexa Rose Foundation, and Washington University in St. Louis, where she served as the Senior Fellow in Poetry. Her recent work appears, or will soon appear, in Academy of American Poets’ poem-a-day, Bennington Review, New England Review, Poetry Society of America, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and elsewhere. She is the author of Animal, Roadkill, Ashes, Gone (essays), (Bull City Press, 2022), as well as The Last Unkillable Thing (University of Iowa Press, 2021), which was a winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and a finalist for a 2022 Midwest Book Award.
@emdash.jpg

This event is free and open to the public! taken in Overlap by @oliviaebaldwin

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Untitled (twin), 2025-2026, Box spring, scrap and inherited leather and suede, brads, 75 x 38 x 7 in. Photos by @elizabeth_ellenwood

Thank you @lindquist.object and @dug_bro for providing much of the material for the work!

See this piece and many others along with @babsowen and @hart.jai ‘s through 3/8/26 @overlapnewport and join us today at 3 pm for our artist talk / walkthrough!

This work came alive in a new way in @overlapnewport ‘s space, drenched in that gorgeous blade of afternoon light. Grateful to show it here in “Slip” with @babsowen and neighboring @hart.jai solo “The Wall Wanted to Play Too: The Architecture of Tenderness.”@elizabeth_ellenwood thanks for the beautiful shots! taken in Overlap by @oliviaebaldwin

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8 months ago

SFA Alumni in Action: MFA alum Olivia Baldwin ’20 is featured in "Slip," a two-person exhibition with Barbara Owen at OVERLAP in Newport.⁠
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On view through March 7, the exhibition brings Baldwin’s work into a dynamic dialogue of form and space. Join the artists for a walkthrough on Saturday, Feb. 21, 3–4:30 p.m.⁠
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Baldwin lives and works in Providence and teaches at Babson College.⁠ We’re proud to see Huskies making an impact in the arts.⁠
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If you're in Rhode Island, We encourage you to visit the exhibition⁠! Hit the link in bio to learn more about the exhibition from the artists themselves.⁠
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📸 Exhibition photos: Elizabeth Ellenwood Photography by @oliviaebaldwin

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Join us this Saturday, February 21st at 3pm for our Exhibition walkthrough with our current exhibiting artists, who will share their work and studio practices.

Boston Based Artist Jai Hart will be speaking about her playful, large scale works in her solo exhibition “The Wall Wanted to Play Too: The Architecture of Tenderness”. Olivia Baldwin, and Barbara Owen will speak about their colorful works in “Slip” and how the parallels and differences within their work enhance each other within the exhibition space.

This event is free and open to the public! For full exhibition and event details visit our website (link in Bio.)

📸: @elizabeth_ellenwood
#contemporaryart #sculpture #newportri #fiberarts #contemporarypainting taken in Overlap by @oliviaebaldwin

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