Atlanta-based artist Radcliffe Bailey will be exhibiting 37 works including paintings, sculptures, mixed media, photos on metal and others at the High Museum of Art through September 11.
Bailey is a renouned African American artist whose works are represented in major collections around the nation including the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Bailey was born in 1968 in Bridgeton, NJ, before his family moved to Atlanta when he was 4-years-old. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991. In 2009, he married television actress Victoria Rowell.
Bailey’s exhibit, Memory As Medicine, is the most comprehensive study of Bailey’s work to date. It includes new works as well as others that have not previously been presented in public. Three themes surround the work — “Water” deals with the historic Middle Passage of the transport of slaves across the Atlantic Ocean; “Blues” ties to music as an overarching art form, while “Blood” looks at concepts tied to ancestry, race, memory, struggle and sacrifice.
The exhibition was organized by the High, and made possible through the National Endowment For The Arts as part of their American Masterpieces series. Additional support comes from the Ed Bradley Family Foundation, the Lubo Fund, Jack Shainman Gallery, Vicki and John Palmer, Marjorie and Steve Harvey and members of the Radcliffe Bailey Guild.