True Neutral Human explores the role of mistreatment or violence enacted on an object, an image, or an idea. By focusing on society’s relationship to cruelty, how we both enact and repair the damage we generate, Baldwin considers if cruelty can be applied and reconciled through the creative process. The work included in the exhibition simultaneously unifies disparate fragments while rejecting the whole in favor of particulate fractions. The result is an exhibition that embodies a dissonance between the physical, psychological, and historical.

Taylor Baldwin holds a MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and is an Assistant Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). His work has been shown at institutions such as Queens Museum of Art, NYC; Tuscan Museum of Art, Arizona; Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, Louisville; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. He has been awarded residencies/fellowships at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Sculpture Center in New York. 

 Marc Mitchell / Curator

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Taylor Baldwin, Motherfucker/Redeemer, 2013. Mixed media, 126 x 144 x 96 in.  / Courtesy of the artist

Taylor Baldwin, DETAIL- Motherfucker/Redeemer, 2013. Mixed media, 126 x 144 x 96 in.  / Courtesy of the artist

Taylor Baldwin, The Oracle, 2016. Mixed media, 96 x 36 x 436 in.  / Courtesy of the artist

Taylor Baldwin, DETAIL- The Oracle, 2016. Mixed media, 96 x 36 x 36 in.  / Courtesy of the artist

Taylor Baldwin, The Plague Year, 2014. Mixed media, 67 x 48 x 48 in.  / Courtesy of the artist

Taylor Baldwin, DETAIL- The Plague Year, 2014. Mixed media, 67 x 48 x 48 in.  / Courtesy of the artist

Taylor Baldwin, DETAIL - The Plague Year, 2014. Mixed media, 67 x 48 x 48 in.  / Courtesy of the artist