User:JKizzieHumanities/David Barnes

David Barnes is a painter and educator living in Bristol, Rhode Island. Barnes is a professor at Bristol Community College. He has also taught at Roger Williams University.

Barnes is known for his paintings at the periphery of disturbing events, influenced in part by his being at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on the day of the 2017 mass-shooting there. Places where he has exhibited include Atelier Newport, Newport Art Museum, T.F. Green Airport, the RISD Museum and the Providence Art Club.

In 2001, Barnes won Best of Show at the Newport Art Museum Juried Members Show, and he was featured in the art documentary series, Networks Rhode Island in 2014. In 2020, he was awarded the MacColl Johnson Fellowship in Visual Art.