JAY BAILEY
About Jay Bailey
Inspired by memory and fragmentation, Jay Bailey makes paintings and drawings which create a fabric of images unique to his time and place in the American West. He references a landscape of grand mountains, dramatic skies, deteriorating casinos, hidden underground music venues, dirt country roads, and western and frontier folklore.
His paintings are collections of seemingly discordant marks, lines, blooms, and brush strokes which fall together in a singular voice. With a style influenced by the spirit of cut and paste photo collage, digital video distortion, and blind contour drawings, his images reside on representing the edge of where a thing is and isn’t.
His compositions give space to see strange things and hear silence...
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Jay Bailey was born in Reno, Nevada in 1976. He has a BA in Fine Art from the University of Nevada in Reno, undertook post-baccalaureate studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, and has his MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Education
BA in Fine Art from the University of Nevada
post-baccalaureate studies at the San Francisco Art Institute
MFA from the University of Nevada
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Available Work
Archive: Sold
Before the Heavens Fell
Juniper and Pine Facing East in the Sierras
Deluge in Northern New Mexico on a Wednesday
Dust Storm in the Petrified Forest
