Bailin Studio Blog

For an Artsy viewing room presentation, Koplin Del Rio’s registrar, Kimberly Clark, asked me to write something about each of the drawings in the Gatherings series. Something interesting. I took that to be avoid art talk, avoid contemplating my navel. So what’s left?

During the summer of 1990, inspired by a Surrealist drawing show at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (then called the Arkansas Arts Center), I developed a Friday after-work café and theater venue called the Carnal Leap Cabaret (named after a Futurist cocktail the ingredients I have long forgotten).

What I face everyday. Pitch perfect.

I try to keep these in mind.

After two years struggling in an artistic pit, I have once more connected with my core and have found a theme.