October 30, 2025
31 Year Review
This newsletter highlights selected drawings from each of the ten series over the course of 31 years. This paper trail is the result of deeply personal experiences expressing shared human responses to contemporary American life.
November Drawing Spotlight
Raincoat • 2013 [Charcoal, Oil and Coffee on Paper • 84 X 95 inches]
In his efforts to accrete images from constituent parts, Bailin adopts a multiplicity of implements, yielding various textures and marks. His works skirt the edge of abstraction and approach drawing as text, and as theater, rich in surface and movement.The drawings in [this series] are ephemeral and dreamlike, […] and the figures and settings emerge out of Bailin's marks—marks of abstraction, gesture, texture, and motion—as if surfacing within one's consciousness out of white noise. […] His works skirt the edge of abstraction...
– Christopher Michno Exhibition Review • art It, 2014
