Mara Baldwin: Linger Longer

May 30 – September 21, 2025

  • Detail from the Kindling series, 2023-. ink, color pencil on paper
  • Rise Up O Flame, 2025, watercolor, color pencil on paper; photo by Alon Koppel
  • Rise Up O Flame, detail; photo by Alon Koppel
  • On My Honor I Will Try, 2025, canvas, patches, pins, ironed adhesive; Selected Try-Its drawings, 2024-2025, watercolor, pen on paper
  • On My Honor I Will Try, detail
  • All Together Now, 2023, cut felt on tent canvas
  • All Together Now, detail
  • Cat’s Cradle, 2025, watercolor, color pencil on paper; photo by Alon Koppel
  • Cat’s Cradle, detail; photo by Alon Koppel
  • Trust Fall, 2025, watercolor, color pencil on paper; photo by Alon Koppel
  • Trust Fall, detail; photo by Alon Koppel
  • Tippy Test, 2025, watercolor, color pencil on paper; photo by Alon Koppel
  • Tippy Test, detail; photo by Alon Koppel
  • Infinity Compass Dabbler, 2024, color pencil, ink on paper
  • Sarasponda, Sarasponda, 2025, watercolor, color pencil on paper; photo by Alon Koppel
  • Sarasponda, Sarasponda, detail; photo by Alon Koppel

Summer Camp evokes a wellspring of memories and associations – songs and stars, friends and fires, canoeing, crafts and coming of age. This body of work by Hudson Valley artist Mara Baldwin draws upon her unreliable archive of summer camp ephemera and recollections – knotted friendship bracelets, achievement patches, felt banners of nicknames and inside jokes, and photographs from waterlogged disposable cameras.

There is a mythology around summer camp, and the time of life we spend there. In the same way camps are a world away, this exhibition reflects upon the creative power and transformational wonder of gathering together, outdoors.


About the Artist

Mara Baldwin is an artist whose work focuses on the impossible dream of utopia, and asks if a perfect life can include the imperfect feelings of failure, loneliness and dissatisfaction. Baldwin’s multidisciplinary and research-based work uses textiles and drawings to create serial and narrative forms. She shares her time between Ithaca and the Hudson Valley, where she teaches drawing at Bard College. Baldwin will be in residence at the McColl Center (Charlotte, NC) for summer of 2025. Current and upcoming exhibitions at Childs Gallery (Boston), Handwerker Gallery (Ithaca College), and the Garrison Art Center (Garrison, NY).

https://marabaldwin.com