RADCLIFFE BAILEY, (B. 1968)

Day of Soumbedioune in Dakar, 2008

Day of Soumbedioune in Dakar, 2008

acrylic, glitter and printed paper collage on canvas

120 x 96 in.
304.8 x 243.8 cm.

Provenance
Solomon Projects, Atlanta
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2009

Through his varied practice of painting, sculpture and installation, Radcliffe Bailey explores themes such as the African diaspora, personal and community identity, shared memory, culture and history through multilayered artworks that merge the personal and the universal to consider our pasts as well as our futures. With arrows of glitter and linear forms, the present lot, Day of Soumbedioune in Dakar , has a topographic map like quality that evades a particular directional focus, espousing the interplay between dualities such as connectivity and diaspora. The strata and texture of Baily's paintings, including the present lot, create a metaphysical effect out of varied tactile materials that each bear their own history.

Radcliffe Baily is represented by Jack Shainman and has had solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; and the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama amongst others. Bailey is included in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Studio Museum Harlem, New York.