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An assemblage centered on a photograph of a bird's eye perspective of a stone figural sculpture…
Untitled
An assemblage centered on a photograph of a bird's eye perspective of a stone figural sculpture…
An assemblage centered on a photograph of a bird's eye perspective of a stone figural sculpture surrounded by an interwoven grid of multicolored lines, shapes, text, and figures.
Untitled, Radcliffe Bailey, 1999, acrylic, photograph, plexiglass, oil stick, resin, spray paint, glitter and velvet pouch with key, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, © Radcliffe Bailey. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

Untitled

Artist (American, 1968 - 2023)
Date1999
MediumAcrylic, photograph, plexiglass, oil stick, resin, spray paint, glitter and velvet pouch with key
Dimensions80 × 80 × 5 3/4 inches (203.2 × 203.2 × 14.6 cm)
Portfolio/Series"Kindred" series
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds provided by the bequest of Dr. William and Mrs. Mildred Weichselbaum.
Object number2004.16
On View
Not on view
Copyright© Radcliffe Bailey. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws. Label TextAtlanta-based Radcliffe Bailey undertook a series of paintings titled Kindred in anticipation of the birth of his daughter. Each paint-ing contains a centralized photo-graph from his family’s collection of tintypes or his own images of African sculptures. This untitled work, the last in the series, fea-tures a photograph of a wood sculpture viewed from above that is suggestive of a fetus in the womb. Bailey’s dense multimedia works interweave fragments of African American history with the artist’s own expe-riences as a Black man. The complex layering of painted marks, written words, photographs, found objects, glitter, dirt, and resin form a collage full of cultural memories. Bailey likens his improvisational method to practicing and performing jazz. Text written for 'Anything Goes: Contemporary Art and Materials' on view October 28, 2022-May 14, 2023.
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