Relevance, 35th Anniversary Exhibition II
Working primarily from observation, my paintings attempt to make lasting pictorial statements out of fleeting perceptual experiences. In this translation of experience to painting, contours are blurred and forms submerged in an atmosphere which can only be seen
indirectly, as if through the corner of one’s eye: the sideward glance that turns the familiar into the unfamiliar and makes a whole of separate parts.
In the case of a still life, motifs often present themselves
accidentally, accumulating over time in the studio. These are starting points, taken with immediacy, like an ink spill, then gradually refined over time, held by the act of painting as a moment of stasis in an unstable world.
Oil
11 x 14 in.
David Baird was born in 1986, and began studying painting in 2006 at the Ryder Studio School in Santa Fe, NM. His education continued in New York and eventually overseas, where he has benefitted from extensive exposure to some of Europe’s greatest works of art. Since 2015 he has participated in the Jerusalem Studio School Master Class program in both Civita Castellana, Italy, and Jerusalem, Israel, and was the recipient of the Avigdor Arikha Memorial Scholarship in 2019. David has also travelled broadly teaching in the US, Australia, and Europe, and has been visiting faculty at Studio Escalier since 2016.
Space One Eleven Involvement: Teaching Artist 2021