This Year's Featured Artist -David Fairrington
David Fairrington, an internationally known artist, grew up in Texas and graduated from Texas Tech University. After graduating, David served as an “Army Combat Artist” for the Department of the Army in Vietnam. This program, established as part of the United States Army Art Program, utilized teams of soldier-artists to make pictorial records of U.S. Army activities during the Vietnam War in order to chronicle military history. The paintings David did are now in the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington D.C. and were recently shown on the CBS News Sunday Morning show. These Army works are also being shown on an online gallery on “Art of the American Soldier” from the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA.
After the military, David opened his own design studio, designing and executing over one hundred and fifty movie posters for such studios as Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures, Sony and MGM Studios. David continues to do conceptual work for the film industry and private film producers.
Recently, David’s work was juried into the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery’s portrait competition. His portrait portfolio has been chosen as one from which officials in the Pentagon and government can select an artist for an official portrait. In addition, David was named a “Master Artist” by “International Artist” magazine and his portraits are in private and corporate collections. David paints corporate officers, business owners as well as families and children. Portraits by David Fairrington include: Arthur Ashe for John McInroe as seen in Sports Illustrated; Ex-Police Chief William J. Bratton; California Senator Alan Lowenthal and Democratic U.S. representative-elect for California's 36th congressional district Janice Hahn
David also paints portraits of celebrities. His most recent celebrity portraits are for ABC Television and the Disney Corporation and include stars of Lost, Desperate Housewives, “Gray’s Anatomy, Scrubs, Extreme Makeover Home, and Legend of the Seeker.
In the ballet world, David is known as the “Degas” of ballet painters. After being introduced to ballet at the Westside Ballet Academy in Santa Monica, CA, he has done a series of dance and ballet commissions.
In 2010, David won first place at The National Orange Show All-California Juried Art Exhibition for his still-life of an orange. He also received The National Orange Show’s Board of Director’s Purchase Award.
David is also an accomplished landscape, plein air and equestrian painter. After recently discovering youtube, he has produced his first video on painting.
David feels that “art is life”. It's what he does to find himself.
More information on this artist can be found at http://www.davidfairrington.com.
