Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Visual Arts Preview: Radcliffe Bailey at the High
Posted by Wyatt Williams @wyatt_williams on Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:31 PM
- COURTESY JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY
- Radcliffe Bailey, "Tricky"
Bailey studied as a sculptor at the Atlanta College of Art, but his work has taken shape in wildly different forms - gouache painting, collage works, modified found objects, installations of piano keys, glass works, and so forth. Often, the pieces seem to utilizing a number of these disciplines - combining sculptural practices with layers of painting and collage - to a degree that his works fall outside of simple description as either sculpture or painting.
Instead of a chronological arrangement, the works have been installed around themes in Bailey's work: "Blood,""Blues," and "Water." Combined this way, Bailey's references to the MIddle Passage, for example, are brought into greater resonance through their appearance in works throughout the "Water" group. A massive installation, "Windward Coast," dominates the center of the exhibition with a water-like arrangement of piano keys. The piece includes a clattering recording of Bailey's process (scattering piano keys on the wood floor) emanating from a conch shell.
Bailey's work is often influenced by, or makes reference to, African sculptural work, some of which has been installed alongside Bailey's work to emphasize the link. In a press release, Carol Thompson, the High's Curator of African Art, asserts, "Bailey's art traces the complex network of his aesthetic DNA to create an antidote to cultural and historical amnesia."
Preview a few images from the show and get more details about the exhibition after the jump.
- COURTESY HIGH MUSEUM
- Radcliffe Bailey, "Notes from Elmina I"
- COURTESY JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY
- Radcliffe Bailey, "Cerebral Caverns"
- COURTESY JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY
- Radcliffe Bailey, "Windward Coast (detail"
Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine opens at the High Museum on Sun., June 26 and runs until Sept., 11. More information about events related to the exhibition and other details at the High.
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