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David Bailin

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A new series of work by David Bailin will be on exhibit for the first time at the Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas beginning May 23rd. Bailin’s evocative large-scale drawings with their uncertain marks and numerous revisions suggest a sense of ephemerality and anxiety. The new series Dreams and Disaster combines charcoal, oil, and coffee representing a rare foray into color for David Bailin, who typically uses only charcoal in his drawings. Bailin’s previous series explored his time working as a bookkeeper in New York City; this series, however, delves in the dreams that crept into the monotony of days passed in the cubicle. The size of the drawings, up to 7 x 8 feet, allows the viewer to enter the atmosphere created by Bailin and identify with the lone figure suspended in these disordered environments. Bailin takes the familiar, scenes from a Little Rock neighborhood, and makes these unfamiliar through an atmosphere of looming tension. Ordered suburban streets are dwarfed by swirling clouds, falling blocks, or streams that appear in the middle of roadways. The drawings mimic dreams in which details—exact faces and locations – are omitted, but atmosphere remains pervasive and stirring.

An opening reception and gallery talk by David Bailin will be held from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm Thursday, May 23, 2013. The exhibition will remain on display through August 1, 2013.

David Bailin is an artist working in Little Rock. He received artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arkansas Arts Council and the Mid-America/NEA Fellowship Program. His works can be seen in public and private collections throughout the country and have received critical reviews in Artnews, the Los Angeles Times, the Oxford American Magazine, the Arkansas Times, art Ltd and other prestigious periodicals. Bailin currently is a part-time art faculty member at the University of Central Arkansas. From 1986 to 1996, he was the Director of the Museum School at the Arkansas Arts Center.