David Bailin, "Ladders", 2013, charcoal, pastel & coffee on prepared paper, 73 x 91"
By Leah Ollman
Los Angesles Times, March 21, 2014
Those absurd working conditions we associate with the Kafkaesque -- bureaucratic cul-desacs, depersonalizing cubicles, psychic suffocation -- have been brilliantly visualized in recent years in the drawings of David Bailin.
Scenes by the Little Rock, Ark.-based artist star a lone everyman uniformed in suit and tie, confronting his unsettling fate. Grimness and humor chase each other's tails.