David Baird, Reclining Nude, Oil on Linen, 2024
As the reputation of the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts continues to grow, so does the list of countries in which its faculty is represented. Co-Artistic Directors Amaya Gurpide and Jordan Sokol, with faculty members David Baird, Hollis Dunlap, and Michael Grimaldi, are featured artists in Realism Now at Museu Europeu d’Art Modern. This international exhibition, held in Barcelona, Spain, aims to take the pulse of contemporary figurative creation through an attentive selection of top-quality paintings, sculptures, and drawings. “At a time when society is subjected to the over-exposition of unverified information and to the fatigue associated with the constant audiovisual stimulus,” exhibition organizers comment, “we find in realistic figurative art a refuge of immeasurable value. . .” For more information about Realism Now, please visit: https://www.meam.es/en/exhibitions/139/realism-now.html.
For more information about Lyme Academy faculty members, please visit: https://lymeacademy.edu/core-drawing-painting/faculty/ and https://lymeacademy.edu/core-sculpture/
