Independent Study & Workshops
Student References
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Presentations and Exhibition Walk-throughs
Nine Drawings
When we walk through museums, visit exhibitions and look at art, we come with preconceptions, prejudices and preferences, and, if you are an artist, take from those works ideas and processes we could use as our own. Much of the time we come away with our opinions affirmed, pushed to reconsider an artist’s work, or just excited to get back into the studio.
But sometimes, a work of art produces a sudden insight or a discovery that reshapes my approach to art making.
Here are nine works of art whose lessons produced the framework upon which I create work and judge the success or failure of it.
—David Bailin • 2026
Washington's Profile
Washington’s Profile contained 100 endnotes that intimated but did not state out right the main narrative of the text [a American travelogue]. In fact, the work was an attempt to create a subject through correspondence, allusion and fragmentation. It is a form of creating art that I follow to this day, albeit for a different medium: a search for meaningful relationships between disparate images and text by excavating old newspapers, magazines and books.
— David Bailin • 2014
Observation
Epiphany from the studio
Déjà vu
An artist friend of mine mentioned that as artists we really paint the same painting over and over again.
But what struck me was how close those paintings looked and felt to my current thumbnails. The same self-enclosed stories, the diagrammatic elements of the work and the space between each idea or impulse. This was an aesthetic epiphany.
As artists, we change the subject matter (the story) and the object matter (the elements) but we can’t change the core matter– the indescribable and intangible chemical, electrical, biological makeup of our psyche -the conglomeration of memories and emotions that require expression.
