Darryl Baird – Continuum: A Retrospective Exhibit
February 15 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Darryl Baird – Continuum: A Retrospective Exhibit
February 6th through March 4th 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, February 6th from 5-6 p.m.
Artist’s Talk: Sunday, February 15th at 2:30 p.m. at the
Emerald Art Center, 500 Main St., Springfield, OR
Dot Dotson’s Gallery
1668 Willamette Ave.
Eugene, OR 97401
(541) 485-1771
Monday – Friday: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Renowned photographer Darryl Baird presents Continuum, a retrospective exhibit of his work from the last three decades. Included in the exhibit are photographs from his series Transcending Loss – (1995-97), Aqueous Humor (1997-98), Re-Picturing the Picturesque (2005-08), Post Mortem (2008-09), Pictorialist Drawing (2009-19), and Glass Worlds (2025-Present).
Darryl Baird: “I’ve been an ardent student of history all my life, but it was the history of photography that truly captured (for me) the essence of how history informs and directs our actions. My introduction to photo-history led me to find early photographers, and the periods that they were attached to, like Pictorialism, Modernism, and even Post-Modernism. As my research and reading of these periods continued, I felt the urge to explore them as a means of personal expression. Looking back at the images in this exhibition, I can see these early aesthetic patterns emerge, like chapters in a book… my book.”
Originally from Dallas, Texas Darryl Baird has an over fifty-year career as a photographer and educator. His initial education was at the United States Naval School of Photography in Pensacola, Florida. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Broadcast-Film Arts from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
He worked for twenty years as a commercial architectural, advertising, and editorial photographer. He left the commercial field for graduate school, first in a doctoral program in Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas and later earned a Master of Fine Arts in Photography at the University of North Texas.
Darryl is an Emeritus Professor of Art at the University of Michigan in Flint, where he created and taught graphic design and photography programs. He led the department as chair of the Communication and Visual Arts department for a critical transition into a combined discipline.
His work is included in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Art, Museum of Fine Art in Houston Texas, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Since retiring in Oregon, he has been included in two exhibitions at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland (PNW Drawers), a solo exhibition at the Performing Art Center in Newport, Oregon, and awarded an artist residency at Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area.