Artist Spotlight: David Bailin

“Intrusion” by David Bailin, 2023, charcoal and coffee on paper, 52 1/2 x 60.

ABOUT THIS PIECE

“‘Intrusion’ is part of a series called The Gatherings. I dislike crowds. They make me uncomfortable. Especially groups of people congregating around a single idea or ideology. They are the Cossacks that terrorized my ancestors and who terrorize us now. This series shows only the gathering. What threatens them is rarely real, but it is they who haunt my dreams.”

ARTIST BIO

David Bailin is an artist working primarily in drawing. He earned his MA from Hunter College in New York, his BFA at the University of Colorado in Boulder and received fellowship awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NEA/Mid-American Arts Alliance, as well as the Arkansas Art Council. The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation Collection in Little Rock and the National Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. are among the number of private and public institutions that have acquired his work. Bailin received critical reviews in ARTnews, Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, the Oxford American Magazine, Art Ltd and other periodicals, and was the subject of a 2008 documentary entitled “Charcoal Lines.” Bailin’s work is profiled in the fourth edition of “Drawing Essentials” by Deborah Rockman, published in 2020 by the Oxford University Press, and “Creative Practices for Visual Artists” by Kenneth Steinbach, published in 2018 by Focal Press. In 2014, The Arkansas Times weekly selected Bailin as one of Arkansas’ Visionaries.

Bailin is represented by Koplin Del Rio Gallery in Seattle (formerly Los Angeles, 1982-2015), and M2 Gallery in Little Rock. Bailin currently lives and works in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

See this piece in the exhibit “Kopfkino: Drawings by David Bailin” on display in Gallery One at the UA Little Rock Fine Arts Building through March 14.
Find more of Bailin’s work locally at M2 Gallery, online at bailinstudio.com and on Facebook and Instagram.