Dean Baldwin Lew

Dean Baldwin Lew gambols across disciplines. Raised in his mother’s restaurant—from a line of generational restaurateurs—he iterates on themes of hospitality, conviviality, performative still-life, and the structural discrepancies around which we pivot.

In his works all media are time based. A piece of fruit can be turned or wrung; an event erupted; an evening slowed. In every case, a river runs. Baldwin Lew, an artist who wonders if he’s missing his collective, elevates and underscores our relations. His is the happy chaos of making things happen from the things at hand.

At turns host, guest, and irreverent spectator, Dean offers a radical hospitality that helps us to mean.