Jane’s Bio:
Her artwork has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions since 1974. The most notable include Times Square, The Musée du Louvre, Lincoln Center, the Museum of Computer Art, the Mint Museum, the Elliott Museum, the Cameron Museum of Art, the Fayetteville Museum of Art and the World Festival of Art on Paper (Slovenia) and a print of “We the People,” her 911 Tribute, in the print archives of the Library of Congress.
Jane studied at California Institute of the Arts during which time she was influenced by John Baldessari, to never repeat what has been done, to create new ideas. Arthur Turner at the Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, taught her to work in multiple media at the same time, to keep the creative ideas flowing.
Spanning five decades her work has included found objects, clay and sculptural stained glass as well as drawing, painting and groundbreaking digital media. She now mixes all of that experience into rich visual stories about things she is passionate about.
After painting moving water for decades using various media, she currently utilizes viscosity and alchemy to get the outcome she wants, eliciting the paint to tell her story. Her latest works are her Sea Stories.
She has a deep respect for the ocean, tides, currents and wind. Her paintings and passion resonate in her advocacy for the water on our planet. She has been involved with environmental and educational groups promoting protections for our watersheds all the way to the oceans.
Artist Statement:
I am a sea level girl. Perfection is having the bow cut through the wavelets like a hot knife through ice cream. Surrounded by diamonds, glinting off of the wrinkles on the water. Intoxicated by the fragrance of the sea breeze.
If not scudding across the water by sail then perhaps, floating in the delicious turquoise, buoyant from the salt and the magnesium surroundings. Or, if standing toes in, hopeful that treasure will arrive on the next wave. I used to think the highest achievement was finding a perfect specimen of a Queen Conch on one’s walkabout. The real treasures are the fragments of shape and color with better stories behind their journey.
I want you to understand the rushing water borne on a storm, currents, tides and runoff that change the land. This can manifest into an ox-bow in a river or a beach house falling into the ocean.
Exhibitions:
Selected Solo Shows:
2021 “Portfolios: Jane Lawton Baldridge, A Sea Story Girl,” Elliott Museum (June-October 31st), curated by Alicia Weber, Hutchinson Island, FL
2018 MASS Artwalk May , Fort Lauderdale Featured Artist
2012 Jane Lawton Baldridge, Art @ 211, Southport, NC
2001 Stories, Past & present, UNC-W, Wilmington, NC, Invitation
2000 Paths, South Eastern Community College, Whiteville, NC
1999 Stories, The Gallery at WHQR, Wilmington, NC
1998 Jane Lawton Baldridge, Creative Resource Gallery, Wilmington, NC
1997 UNCW Warwick Center, Wilmington, NC
1997 UNCW Student Union Center, Wilmington, NC
1993 Light, Waves, Water, University of North Carolina – Wilmington, NC
1993 Light, Waves, Water, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Group Shows:
2021 132nd Annual Members’ Exhibition, One Art Space, New York, NY
2021 30th Annual All Florida Juried Art Show, Court House Cultural Center, Stuart, Florida
2021 Hamptons Fine Art Fair, Southhampton, NY
2021 Fifth Avenue Gallery, Melbourne, Florida, “Rust”
2021 Gallery 526, West Palm Beach, Florida “Show Us Your Best”
2021 Court House Cultural Center, Stuart, Florida, “Summer Salon”
2021 Treasure Coast International Airport, Fort Peirce, Florida “Grand Opening”
2021 January Exhibit, The Palm Room Gallery, Sewall’s Point, FL
2021 Florida Artist Group 71st Exhibition, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
2020 “Celebrando” The Art of the Season, St. Lucie Cultural Alliance
2020 “Best of the Best” A.E. Backus Museum, Fort Pierce, Florida
2020 Art in Isolation, The Palm Room Gallery, Sewall’s Point, FL
2020 We are All in this Together, The Box Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
2020 COVID 19. The Art Of Isolation/Survey 1, Virtual, Curator’s Voice Art Projects,
Miami, FL
2020 Art Will Beat Covid Online Exhibition, TMAF Art & Design, LLC, Clearwater, FL
2020 Naples Art, Antiques & Jewelry, Steidel Contemporary, Naples, FL
2020 Continuum Palm Beach Art Fair, Paul Fisher Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2020 Martin County Open Studio Tour 2020, Stuart, FL
2019 In Her Image, Elliot Museum, Hutchinson Island, FL
2019 Portrait from the Precipice, Short List, ArtFinder and Octopus Energy, UK
2019 Spectrum Miami, Mana Wynwood, Miami, FL
2019 November Exhibit, The Palm Room, Stuart, FL
2019 Artists & Charities Hand & Hand, Palm Beach, FL
2019 Summer Salon Exhibition, Martin Artisans Guild, Arts Council of Martin County,
Stuart FL
2019, Spring Arts Pop up, Red Barn, Stuart, FL
2019 Sandhill Cove Art Sale and Show, Palm City, FL 2019
2019 Martin County Open Studio Tour, Stuart, FL 2019
2018 SCOPE MIAMI Art Basel grand opening of Miami Dome
2018 All Women Competition, Contemporary Art Gallery Online
2017 All Women Art Exhibition, Light Space Time Gallery,
2017 “ALL PAINTINGS”, Contemporary Art Gallery Online
2016 Seascapes, Light Space Time Gallery
2016 “ALL Colors” Paintings (5), Contemporary Art Gallery Online
2016 7th ArtSlant Prize Showcase
2016 The Dichotomy of Texture, The Great Project,2-person Fort Lauderdale, FL
2016 2-Person Show, All About Art, Bald Head Island, NC
2016 “Creators Deserve to be Seen”, The Beauty of Art Collection, 4 Times Square,
New York, NY
2015 Fifth Annual Exposure Photography Award, Musee de Louvre, Paris
2013 All Photography Light Space Time Gallery, 2013
2013 4th Art Contest, Artavita
2013 Continuum, VAM Art, Metuchen, NJ
2013 Digital Group Show, See.Me Exhibition Space, Long Island City, NY
2013 Scope Art Fair, See Me Booth, Miami
2012 Art Takes Times Square, New York, NY
2012 Azure Afternoon, 2-person New Elements Gallery, Wilmington, NC
2011 State of the Art of the State, Cameron Art Museum 2011
2009 Coming Ashore, 2-person Summer Show, New Elements Gallery, Wilmington, NC
2008 Digitalism I, MOCA Brooklyn, NY 2008
2008 American Juried Art Salon’s Fall-Winter show
2008 Paint a Future, No Boundaries International Art Colony Show, Wilmington, NC
2006-2008 Gallery Artists Show, Three Hounds Gallery, Wilmington, NC Invitational
2006 Female Perspectives, Three Hounds Gallery, Wilmington, NC Invitational
2005 Red Bag of Courage, 3-woman show, Independent Art Company, Wilmington, NC
2005 Group Show, Simmons –Wright Gallery, Wilmington, NC
2005 Boundless Art Exhibit, The Art Institute Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
2005 Art Now Global Online exhibition, UK
2005 Art Addiction 100 Contemporary Artists
2005 Medial Biennial, Medial Museum
Awards:
2020-Honorable Mention, Art Ideal Magazine, Circle Foundation for the Arts
2020-2nd place Art Will Beat Covid Online Exhibition
2020-Signature Membership in the American Marine Artists Society
2020-Signature Membership, National Association of Women Artists
2020-Circle Foundation for the Arts Affiliate Artist Certificate for Remarkable Aesthetic
2020 36th Artvita Online Art Contest, Certificate of Excellence
2020 Special Recognition Award 2019 Primary Colors Exhibition, Light, Space & Time, Gallery
2019 Special Recognition Award 10th Annual “Abstracts” Art Exhibition, Light Space Time Gallery
2018 Artvita Online Art Contest #26, Certificate of Excellence
2018 FAT Village/MASS Artwalk May, Fort Lauderdale Featured Artist
2018 Abstracts, Special Merit Award, Light Space Time Gallery, 2018
2017 All Women Art Exhibition, Special Merit Award, Light Space Time Gallery
2016 Seascapes, Light Space Time, 3rd Overall, 2nd Painting Division plus Special Merit for 2nd work
7th ArtSlant Prize Showcase Winner, 2016
2015 Fifth Annual Exposure Photography Award, Musee´ de Louvre, Paris
2013 All Photography, Light Space Time, Special Recognition
2013 4th Art Contest, Artavita, Honorable Mention
2008 Honorable mention, MOCA Digitalism show
2007 The World of Art Award for “best practices” in art & culture
2006 50 Most Influential People in the Wilmington Arts
2002 Special Recognition – American Patriotism, International Exhibitions
2002 Regional Artist Grant, Lower Cape Fear Arts Council
Recent Art Reviews:
“Mixed media artist, Jane Lawton Baldridge has a comprehensive body of work belonging conceptually and contextually to five series: ‘Tides & Currents’, ‘Revolution’, ‘Reflections’, ‘Sail Away’ and ‘Erosion & Alchemy’. Her works featured here are from the latter series and reflect upon her love and respect for water. Naturally, the predominant color in these abstract works is blue, connecting the artist’s practice with an extensive legacy of artworks from antiquity to post-modernity.
Jane’s works are full of life. Masterfully combined hues make up fluid compositions which like water carry the viewer’s eye in a back and forth, wave-like motion across the corners of the canvas. The works have a painterly quality adding a calming effect and indeed, gazing at each canvas brings up a similar feeling of fixedly looking at the ocean which is also Jane’s main inspiration.
Although her images supply the viewer with an abstract backdrop for resting their relaxing thoughts on, Jane’s pieces are also an engaging attempt to bring to mind environmental issues and our species’ non-reciprocal attitude towards the life-giving element of water. In her own words, “As sea levels rise and powerful storms erode the landscape, lack of moral compass erodes society.” In this sense, the works in Jane Lawton Baldridge’s ‘Erosion & Alchemy’ series can be seen as a visual metaphor for the decadent course humans have taken; far from – if not against – our own nature and our neglected responsibility toward this ecosystem which has nourished our existence.
Jane’s works are rich in texture, with a winding, vibrant rhythm and reveal a remarkable talent for unapologetically blending color as well as balancing shapes in dynamic, powerful compositions that are perfectly captivating for purely aesthetic reasons, relative or not to the intended message behind them.” – Circle Foundation for the Arts, Director https://circle-arts.com/jane-lawton-baldridge/
Art Will Beat Covid Online Art Exhibition – SECOND PLACE, “Riptide”
“A wonderful abstract evoking the flow and splashes of waves. It makes me long for the opportunity to visit our beaches again. Color choices work well to present a maritime theme of aquamarine and steely blue, but I love how splashes of orange, purple and green interrupt the hues. Medium is presented as “water based media” and I suspect fluid acrylics, it would be wonderful to see hanging on a wall to appreciate the textures up close.” https://www.tmaf4me.com/CovidJudging.html
Education:
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Alfred Glassel Museum School, Houston, TX
Bibliography:
The State Port Pilot, August 3, 2016
2015 Fifth Annual Exposure Photography Award,
Musee de Louvre, Paris 2015
Ultra Color Catalog
I.C.A. Publishing, International Contemporary Artists, 2012
Wilmington Star News Online , Aug 25, 2009
Visual, an Artist directory Produced by Tabula Rasa
(Matt Dols) 2007
The Best of America Mixed Media Artists and Artisans, Kennedy Publishing Vol. I 2007
Wilmington Star News Online, Jan 21, 2007
World of Art Magazine 2007
Library of Congress prints & Papers Collection
(Exit Art: Reactions) 2005
Permanent Archives of artists papers UNCW & Oral History of Artists UNCW 50 Most Influential People in the Wilmington Arts, Encore Magazine 2005
Wilma Magazine, Cover and review, 2005
Wilmington Star News Online, Oct 26, 2005
No Boundaries International Art Colony, Bald Head Island, Catalog 2002
Wilmington Morning Star, December 28, 2001 Review
World Festival of Art on Paper, Kranj, Slovenia, 2000 Catalog
Encore Magazine cover, 2000
Stories – a review, ArtVoices, An Online Magazine,
Volume 2, No. 1 October 1999
Morning Star, August 30, 1999
Stories – Review, Encore Magazine, March 18, 1999
Stories – Review, Sunday Star News, March 14th, 1999
Stories – review, Hear Say Magazine of WHQR,
March/April 1999
International Juried Art Show, Period Gallery,
Omaha, Nebraska 1998 Catalog
International Icarus 1997 – Wild Blue Yonder Catalog
Encore Magazine cover, 1996
Artistic Technology, Max Magazine, August 31, 1995
Cover of “Welcome to Wilmington Magazine”, 1990
National Scholastic Magazine, 1974
Collections:
The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond – Charlotte Branch
Huntington Learning Center
Wilmington Conference Center
UNCW permanent collection
Wilmington Children’s Museum
Applied Analytical Inc.
Merrill Lynch
Bald Head Island Limited
Dean Witter Reynolds Inc.
Wilmington Orthopedic Group
Prudential Real Estate
Several private collectors
Professional Affiliations:
Signature Membership in the American Society of Marine Artists
Member, National Association of Women Artists
Arts Council of Martin County
Martin Artisans Guild
Related Professional Experience:
Painting Workshop for Art Associates of Martin County, 2020
Judge for ArtsFest 2020
Artist Speak, Cameron Art Museum, November 6, 2005
Volunteer Curator for Arts Council of Lower
Cape Fear 1990s
Art Show Juror, miscellaneous shows
Commissions:
Private, Triptych 3-20”x20” canvasses
Private, 49” x 34” canvas
Jensen Beach Tech Center: 7’ x 7’ Original painting on canvas for foyer statement, 2019
The Wilmington Convention Center: 3-8’ x 10’ historical Maritime themed digital collage artwork on canvas, 2011
The Children’s Museum, Wilmington, NC – Circus Audience and Ringmaster, 2006
Computer generated artwork, Installations, large abstracts on canvas, freelance watercolors, boat portraits, oil portraits, wall graphics, artistic maps, illustration, book design and magazine design, 1974-present
Current Gallery representation:
Steidel Contemporary Fine Arts, Palm Beach,
Texas and London
All About Art, Bald Head Island, NC
The Palm Room, Sewall’s Point, FL
The Box Gsllery, Palm Beach, FL