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Head with Fabric, David Baird, Birmingham, Alabama Oil on canvas, 2020<\/p><\/div>\n

David Baird had three paintings in Manifest’s Painted exhibit to kick off their 18th season in Cincinatti. This one, Head with Fabric,\u00a0<\/em>has many of the fine qualities of his painting, Red Nude,<\/em> that just took First Prize at the Salmagundi Club’s New York Figurative Show<\/a>. His handling of paint in the way he renders a figure reminds me a bit of Degas, which is high praise: the soft glow and gradual transitions among tones without being obsessive about detail while conveying the living quality of flesh–his figures breath. You feel you can take their temperature. But what makes his paintings so astonishing is the variation in level of verisimilitude, moving from persuasive illusions to flat patterns and roughly unfinished portions of canvas without destroying the overall feel of space and depth<\/em>. Diarmuid Kelley has been doing this, to a lesser degree, for a while now, but without creating as much interesting tension between the finished\/unfinished, illusionistic\/flat areas of his canvases. It’s something Baird has in common with other painters who have connections with the Jerusalem Studio School<\/a>. Some of Baird’s still life objects work both as fuzzy abstract areas of tone and as soft but utterly convincing visions of objects in three-dimensional space. The color is usually a range of rich, gorgeous earth tones worthy of Braque. It’s hard to figure out precisely how he does it. That usually wins my highest respect, when the technique seems utterly impossible to reverse-engineer.<\/p>\n

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