Derek David Baron

B A R O N - Artist

Derek Baron’s paintings operate at the intersection of memory, play, and excavation. Working in layered acrylic, collage, text, and pop-inflected imagery, he constructs surfaces that feel deceptively simple but reveal emotional and psychological depth upon closer inspection.

Baron begins each canvas with intuitive mark-making—scribbles, gestures, fragments—activating the surface before meaning is assigned. Through layering, obscuring, and reworking, memories attach themselves to form. Words are partially buried. Symbols drift in negative space. Objects such as coffee cups recur as quiet anchors within abstracted environments.

Rooted in childhood recollection and everyday experience, the work reflects the way memory behaves: nonlinear, fragmented, selectively preserved. Some elements remain visible; others are permanently concealed beneath paint, suggesting both protection and loss.

Born in Kankakee IL, Baron studied at ArtCenter College of Design and Laguna College of Art and Design. He has exhibited nationally since 1997 and currently lives and works in Dallas Texas.

His practice balances seriousness with play. While the surfaces may feel spontaneous, the commitment behind them is deliberate. For ...

1998 Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA
1997 Art Center, Pasadena, CA

Exhibition
2026 Daum Gallery, Dallas TX
2025 Hamptons Fine Art Fair, LX Gallery, Southhampton, NY
2025 LX Gallery, McKinney TX
2024 Art Miami, Context, Miami, FL
2024 Bruce Lurie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Virgil Cathrine Gallery, Hinsdale, IL
2024 Postcard Exhibit 24, Millhouse, McKinney, TX
2024 Hamptons Fine Art Fair, Siempre Avanti Gallery,
2023 DHV Artworks Gallery, Dallas TX
2023 Home Goods, Nation Wide, Wexel Arts
2022 TOAF, Dallas, TX
2022 Art Gallery Pure, Plano, TX
2021 Art Basel, "Red Dot Miami", Art Gallery Pure, Miami FL
2021 "The Other Art Fair" Dallas TX
2020 Nuu Muse Gallery, Dallas TX
2020 Frederick Holmes and Company Gallery, Seattle WA
2019 "Art of Freedom" Lawley Art Group Gallery, Dallas TX
2019 "The Other Art Fair" Dallas TX
2017 “Alexander Schwartz Platform” On-Line Exhibition
2017 “Conception Art Show” Dallas, TX
2009 “Divus Group” Art Rebel, Sherman Oaks, CA
2008 “Here & There” Viet Nam Fundraiser, Springfield, MO
2008 “By the Running Foot” OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA
2008 “Lotus Festival” Echo Park, Los Angeles
2008 “Memory Show” Liz’s Loft Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 “Essence of Asia” Asian Fusion Gallery, New York, NY
2006 ”Small Wonders” Pharmaka-Art Gallery, LosAngeles, CA
2006 “The Guggenheim Galle...