Last Supper 2009 Art – Sarah Walko, Malado Baldwin

Artist: Sarah Walko, Malado Baldwin

Title: A Very Long House

Size: Drawing/Painting, Sculpture, Installation, Motors

Medium: Variable

The Longhouse Project takes the idea of communal living space as a metaphor for a larger society inhabiting a shared planet. Joseph Campbell wrote that the future myth would not be about the individual or group/society… but instead a planetary family. To demonstrate this idea, our house will expand onto the walls surrounding, through links (wire/string) to wall-mounted canvas and works on paper, text, and objects- signifying the vastness of our shared community.  We are creating stories for a new age, acknowledging common visions, shared goals, through this metaphor of shared space. Through the macro/micro relationships of the larger paintings and drawings to the tiny sculptures, text and assemblage, the Longhouse Project is both a calling to look closer, and see larger.

Bio:  Sarah Walko was born  in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. She attained her Master of Fine Arts from Savannah College of Art and Design and her Bachelor of Arts from University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. She is currently the Executive Director of Triangle Arts Association, a non profit arts organization in Brooklyn. She has participated in numerous artists workshops and residency programs and is  Art Director, co- writer and so-editor with the independent film collective Santasombra. shown at the International Film Festivals around the world. Her last exhibition took place at 3rd Ward Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. She is currently working on new sculptures, drawings, sound design, and multimedia film projects and has exhibitions coming up in July, August and September of 2009 in Brooklyn, New York.

Malado Baldwin is a New York based painter whose work has been featured recently in Hypothetical Landscapes at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, NY; Boson Exotic, at Rupert Ravens Contemporary, NJ and 35/25: The Painting Center Invitational, NY. Baldwin’s solo exhibitions include shows at the Dumbo Arts Festival (2000) KeyHole Gallery (2005, 2006) and upcoming in a solo show at the National Art Gallery of Namibia (2010). Her work has been reviewed on artcritical.com, art21.com and Esquire Magazine among other publications. A graduate of Swarthmore College (BA, 1997)  and The New York Studio School (MFA 2006), Malado Baldwin is the recipient of the Buckingham Prize (2005), the Visual Arts Foundation Grant (2007) and a nominee for the the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award.