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Koplin Del Rio

6107 13th Ave South
Seattle, WA 98108

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1300 Main Street
Little Rock, AR 72202

Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 10am–5pm
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Drawn to Collect

Selections from the Farrell-Herrick Collection of Drawings

This exhibition highlights selections from Detroit-based collectors Michael Farrell and Marc Herrick. Collecting together for 20 years, and individually before then, the two have amassed an ever-growing assemblage of artworks across an array of mediums, including paintings, drawings, prints, glass, ceramics, and silver. The artworks included in this exhibition, just a portion of their collection, reveals the pair's interest in the intimate and personal aspect of drawings. During the Renaissance, drawing became the foundation for the academic principles of art. Before artists learned to paint, they learned to draw. This tradition continues today and allows an artist to experiment, study detail, and draft out the main structure before arriving at the definitive work, or it can be the finished piece itself. Drawn to Collect includes preliminary sketches, landscapes, portraits, and narrative scenes from the Farrell-Herrick collection by artists including Isabel Bishop, Reginald Marsh, John Koch, and more.


Flint Institute Of Arts
13 May — 20 August, 2023

1120 East Kearsley Street
Flint, Michigan 48503

Monday-Wednesday, Friday, Saturday 10am-5pm
Thursday 10am-8pm
Sunday 1pm-5pm
810.234.1695

Float drawing

Bailin • FLOAT • 2015 • Charcoal and Coffee on Prepared Paper • 52 x 54 inches [Farrell-Herrick Collection of Drawings]

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Workshops

Figure Drawing Basics

Monday and Tuesday, June 26, 27 1–4pm

This course is for the artist who has little or no experience working from a model. You may be able to get away with a less than perfect rendering of a tin can or a tree, but everyone knows a wonky figure when they see one. However, the competence of the artist, avoiding the figure is an artistic limitation. There is nothing more satisfying and exciting than rendering a fully formed figure that doesn’t look like Gumby. This class focuses solely on rendering an unclothed and clothed figure. We use pencil and charcoal–simple materials–to achieve a simple goal: building confidence and competence in your figure drawing.

PAAM workshop registration

Exhibition Catalogs


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2000 – 2009

21st Century Abstraction:
From Roots to Celebration of the New, 2019

Essay by Peter Frank

21st Century Abstraction • 2019
Ledbetter, Ellis, Connally, Bailin, Peter, Liu
Essay by Peter Frank



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For more information about the artists, please visit 21st Century Abstraction. This catalog can be requested by contacting the studio or directly from Abstraction21c.

The written material presented on this site is the intellectual property of the respective authors/publication.

The Erasing, 2018

David Bailin
with Essays by Ellis Widner and Leslie Peacock

This catalog is published in connection with the exhibitions The Erasings (May 2017) Boswell Mourot Gallery, Little Rock, AR; The Erasing (1 December - 26 January 2018) University of Arkansas-FS, Fort Smith, AR; The Erasing (October 2018) Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Seattle, WA © 2018 by David Bailin • Essay © Arkansas Democrat-Gazette by Ellis Widner • Essay © Leslie Peacock

A printed catalog is available for $53 (PDF version $10) through Blurb Books, or purchase a copy through the Studio Gallery for $55.

The Erasing • 2018
Drawings by David Bailin
Essays by Ellis Widner and Leslie Peacock
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Disparate Acts Redux, 2015

David Bailin, Warren Criswell and Sammy Peters
Foreword by Colin Thompson and Essay by Leslie Peacock

David Bailin, Warren Criswell and Sammy Peters
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This catalog is published in connection with the exhibitions Disparate Acts Redux (14 August - 3 October 2015) Butler Center of Arkansas Studies, Little Rock, AR; Disparate Acts (13 March - 16 April 2014) Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR

A printed catalog is available for $45 (PDF version $10) through Blurb Books, or purchase a copy through the Studio Gallery for $45.

Large Drawings, 2010-2013

David Bailin
with introduction by Philip Martin

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by David Bailin with introduction by Philip Martin
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Published for the exhibitions C and Dreams & Disasters at Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, in 2012 and the exhibition Dreams & Disaster at The Arts and Science Center in Pine Bluff, Arkansas and Dreams & Disasters the Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, Arkansas. Text and images © 2013 by David Bailin • Introduction © 2013 Philip Martin

This softcover catalog is available for $25 through Blurb Books, order a signed copy through the Studio Gallery for $35.

Paper Trails, 2010

David Bailin
with introduction by Ruth Pasquine
Quoted material by Leah Ollman and Peter Frank

Paper Trails
Drawings by David Bailin with introduction by Ruth Pasquine
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Paper Trails was published in connection with the 2010 exhibition Paper Trails: Drawings by David Bailin at the Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

This softcover catalog is available for $20 through Blurb Books, order a signed copy through the Studio Gallery for $30.

Washington's Profile, 2010

David Bailin
with essay by Leah Ollman

Washington’s Profile
Drawings by David Bailin with
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This catalog is published in connection with the exhibition Washington' Profile: Drawings by David Bailin (December 12, 2008 through March 15, 2009) at the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science, Sioux Falls, SD.

This softcover catalog is available for $34 through Blurb Books, order a signed copy through the Studio Gallery for $40.

Prophets, Parables, Paradoxes, 2000

David Bailin
Preface by Townsend Wolfe with essays by Ruth Pasquine and Warren Criswell

David Bailin
Recent works: Prophets, Parables, Paradoxes


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Published in connection with the 2000 exhibition of the Midrash Drawings and Prophet series at the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR.

This softcover catalog is available as a signed copy through the Studio Gallery for $30.

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Epiphany from the studio

The Anxiety of Style

Reflections from an old artist

DB painting in 1974
Young Artist with paintings, 1974
I just found some photographs of paintings I created in college. It reminded me of how artists come to develop a style. Students use negation and hybridization as a method to come to grips with the anxiety of creating something new and personal. Negation is the easiest way to create a semblance of uniqueness. Take the current practice and do everything opposite. I am reminded of Mannerist artists during the 16th century, who in the face of the great masters of the Renaissance, produced work that turned the rational approach of their mentors upside down (perspective, local color, rational composition, etc.). For me, it was playing with color field painting and gesture painting.

Field Painting 1974
Field Painting, oil & shoes on canvas, 6' x 6', 1974
Another way that the anxiety of style is handled in student work is through synthesis and hybridization. In the painting on the right, I combined the rough edged matte-knife strokes of Clifford Still with the lyrical abstract paintings of Philip Guston. The anxiety is apparent in the scratchy, nervous and agitated painting surface created by using my fingers to apply the paint and made all the more so by deliberately and self-consciously dumbing down the subject matter into child-like diagrammatic imagery.

First Meeting, 1976
First Meeting, oil on canvas, 6' x 9', 1976

Whether the work was successful, it does contain my subsequent interest in humor and narrative (see my early work here). But style can't be forced even by the most competitive art student. And with what style mature artists end up can't be justified or avoided. To paraphrase the rhetorical and wonderfully post-modernist riddle posed by that old Blackglama ad campaign: What becomes a style most? Insert your work here.