Art Exhibit: David Baird, “Figures, Flowers and Fruit”

Steven Francis Fine Art presents “Figures, Flowers and Fruit”, featuring the most recent work by David Baird. Please join us at SFFA Main Street Gallery in downtown Lynchburg on Friday, April 4th, from 5-8pm for this exciting opening reception. The artist will be present in the gallery.

The paintings exhibit a fundamental interest that has occupied the artist since he began to paint: the translation of perceptual experience into pictorial representation. In this conversion of perception to painting, the portrayal of the visible world is in constant tension with the materiality of the paint and the flatness of the surface. Any pretense of fidelity to the visual experience is inevitably betrayed by the artifice of painting. Resolving this tension between the object of perception and the fiction of representation becomes, in a sense, the subject of every work.

David Baird (b. 1986, USA) is an oil painter and draftsman focused primarily on figurative work. With an education spanning both the U.S. and Europe, the artist has traveled broadly, benefitting from extensive exposure to some of the world’s greatest works of art. In 2024 he joined the faculty of the Lyme Academy of Fine Art in Lyme, Connecticut, where he lives and works today.