Radcliffe Bailey
dal 19/9/2003 al 25/10/2003
Segnalato da
19/9/2003
Radcliffe Bailey
Solomon Projects, Atlanta
The exhibition feature new large scale mixed media paintings on wood and paper. This will be Bailey's first exhibition in Atlanta since 1999
Bailey's work, filled with dense iconography and fueled by multiple inspirations, continues to explore the themes of the African-American cultural experience through expressionism. One of his greatest influences has been jazz music, and his mixed media paintings embody the spatial and environmental qualities of music.
Bailey's work, filled with dense iconography and fueled by multiple inspirations, continues to explore the themes of the African-American cultural experience through expressionism. Bailey1s process, relating moreto the process of jazz composers than painters, inspires compositions of layered imagery, challenging the viewer the way the atonal arrangements of Thelonious Monk challenged the jazz world.
The artist has himself made the analogy, "I would draw comparisons to a jazz musician's search for a certain sound, riff or rhythm, through acts of improvisation."
Bailey's work has been featured in many solo exhibitions including Tide, at Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston TX; Spiritual Migration, Diggs Gallery, University of North Carolina, Winston-Salem, NC, Kresge Gallery of the Berrie Center for Performing & Visual Arts, Ramapo College, Ramapo, NJ and Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA. A catalog of Bailey1s work was produced in conjunction with The Magic City exhibition which traveled to the Birmingham
Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX. His work is currently featured in the group exhibition Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Aikulapo-Kuti, New Museum, New York, NY an was included in Beyond the Pale, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, NY. Bailey1s work is
included in major museum and private collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Citibank, New York, NY; Embassy of the
United States of America, Kumpala, Uganda; Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, MO; Harvard University Art Collection, Boston, MA; Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH.
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