Baldvin Ringsted

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Baldvin Ringsted
Baldvin Ringsted’s art is heavily inspired by music, speech and performance.
Baldvin has recently shown his work at Martos Gallery in New York and CCA in Glasgow.
Baldvin’s studio is in an old refurbished whiskey warehouse.

Icelandic artist Baldvin Ringsted creates paintings, collages, installations and sculptures inspired by the interaction between the senses. Baldvin transforms music into visual art and gives sound permanence as an object. Interested in the memory and association sound can carry, Baldvin looks at the evocative nature of art. His mixed media paintings often contrast patterned motifs with traditional landscape imagery, whilst the surrealist nature of his sculptures create entirely unique viewing experiences.

Baldvin Ringsted’s Early Life and Inspiration

Born in 1974, Baldvin grew up in rural Iceland and from an early age, music played a crucial role in his life. East coast American trash metal and Tampa Bay death metal forged his creative identity, and inspired him to form his own punk band. The evolution of Baldvin’s surrealist sculptures and paintings has forever been shaped by his love of music as well as the developments of popular culture. Baldvin often works with found material, and famously transposed Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” into a cello solo performance.

Exhibitions

Over the course of the last 15 years, Baldvin has shown his work in group and solo shows throughout the world, from Berlin to New York. Baldvin recently held a solo show, Rhythm Distortions in SWG3 gallery in Glasgow. The exhibition showcased a collection of found and reworked oil paintings inspired by sounds, music and performance and created a multisensory viewing experience.

Baldvin Ringsted Artworks

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    Exhalation by Baldvin Ringsted
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    Exhalation by Baldvin Ringsted
    Exhalation
    Paintings - 90x60 cmRent for $200 /mo
    Crimson and Clover by Baldvin Ringsted
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    Crimson and Clover by Baldvin Ringsted
    Crimson and Clover
    Collage - 84x128 cmRent for $315 /mo
    Ascension  by Baldvin Ringsted
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    Ascension  by Baldvin Ringsted
    Ascension
    Collage - 70x88 cmRent for $230 /mo
    A Clean Escape by Baldvin Ringsted
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    A Clean Escape by Baldvin Ringsted
    A Clean Escape
    Paintings - 50x60 cmRent for $140 /mo
    The Great Secret by Baldvin Ringsted
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    The Great Secret by Baldvin Ringsted
    The Great Secret
    Paintings - 60x90 cmRent for $205 /mo
    Impossible Dreams by Baldvin Ringsted
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    Impossible Dreams by Baldvin Ringsted
    Impossible Dreams
    Paintings - 60x90 cmRent for $205 /mo
    Memorare by Baldvin Ringsted
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    Memorare by Baldvin Ringsted
    Memorare
    Paintings - 90x60 cmRent for $205 /mo
    A Sound of Thunder by Baldvin Ringsted
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    A Sound of Thunder by Baldvin Ringsted
    A Sound of Thunder
    Paintings - 60x90 cmRent for $205 /mo
    The Singing Bell by Baldvin Ringsted
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    The Singing Bell by Baldvin Ringsted
    The Singing Bell
    Paintings - 90x60 cmRent for $195 /mo
    Earthlight by Baldvin Ringsted
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    Earthlight by Baldvin Ringsted
    Earthlight
    Paintings - 89x58 cmRent for $180 /mo
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    The Voice in The Night by Baldvin Ringsted
    The Voice in The Night
    Paintings - 60x120 cmRent for $250 /mo
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    Love in a Colder Climate by Baldvin Ringsted
    Love in a Colder Climate
    Paintings - 55x75 cmRent for $150 /mo
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    Hinterlands by Baldvin Ringsted
    Hinterlands
    Paintings - 30x40 cmRent for $71 /mo
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    A Tenderfoot in Space by Baldvin Ringsted
    A Tenderfoot in Space
    Paintings - 30x40 cmRent for $80 /mo
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    The Visitor by Baldvin Ringsted
    The Visitor
    Paintings - 30x40 cmRent for $71 /mo
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    The Green Morning by Baldvin Ringsted
    The Green Morning
    Paintings - 30x40 cmRent for $71 /mo

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