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New work from Radcliffe Bailey at Jack Shainman Gallery

By Chadd ScottPosted on October 29, 20210 Comments
Radcliffe Bailey, Slow Blues, 2021. Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery.
Radcliffe Bailey, Slow Blues, 2021. Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery.

Jack Shainman Gallery presents “Ascents and Echoes,” an exhibition of new work by Radcliffe Bailey at its 513 West 20th Street and 524 West 24th Street locations from November 4 through December 18. This is Bailey’s first solo show in New York in five years.

While continuing Bailey’s exploration of the coalescence of time, history, and collective memory, this body of work marks a departure from figurative photographic source imagery and a foray into the less tangible worlds and truths found in abstraction. This is Bailey’s seventh exhibition with the gallery.

Much of Bailey’s practice revolves around a fascination with the American South, which he views as one large state that carries its own histories and practices. It is a state in which the Black community has poured their own blood, sweat, and tears, only to see a range of promises lie unfulfilled.

This is particularly represented in the mixed media cabinet work, Slow Blues, in which Bailey images a slice of the United States that is instantly recognizable, yet simultaneously rendered into an almost abstracted form. Arrows clearly point to specific locations as reminders of the ports of entry for enslaved Africans into this country, while the number “400” is smudged and obstructed. Coupled with the work’s title, these details suggest that in the hundreds of years since the beginning of Middle Passage, the South has been all too slow to transform into a collective blue state that supports the progress of its own constituents.

The largescale sculpture, Nommo, exhibited for the first time in the United States, continues Bailey’s exploration of globally connected histories and the dichotomy between stasis and movement. Created for the 2019 Istanbul Biennial, the work rebuilds the structure of a ship with reclaimed wooden beams found in the shipyards of Istanbul, a practice that serves to connect past and present. Embedded within the ship are eight plaster busts. This recurring figure within Bailey’s oeuvre is both individual and communal, a deity-like figure who exists in the liminal space between the historic and the current.

Originally exhibited almost exactly where Sun Ra performed on Istanbul’s Istiklal Street nearly twenty years prior, Nommo features the afro-futurist Arkestra’s music as one of three audio elements. A recording of ship builders and ocean waves in the

Bay of Soumbédioune, Senegal and an original jazz composition co-created by Bailey are also integrated into the once site- specific installation. Music plays a large role in Bailey’s practice, as his singular visual language takes form in a variety of references and riffs. Ultimately, in allowing the viewer multiple entry points into his work through his use of indefinite time, space, and material, Bailey questions at what point narratives begin and when they may come to an end.

Bailey’s practice can further be seen as a contemporary continuation of the legacy begun by W.E.B. DuBois. Having established the sociology program at Atlanta University in 1897, DuBois originated the study of American sociology as it is known today. As part of his research, DuBois commissioned sixty handmade ink, gouache, and graphite data visualization graphs to bring to life the numbers he was charting, which demonstrated the ways in which Black America was being left by the government to stagnate. These visualizations reflected what DuBois dubbed “a plexus of social problems, some new, some old, some simple, some complex; and these problems have their one bond of unity in the act that they group themselves above those Africans whom two centuries of slave-trading brought into the land.”

Referencing DuBois’ imagery and research, Bailey condenses his own reflections on the current state of this country and its people into this new body of work, employing materials with journeys and pasts as foundations on which we may consider our future.

Radcliffe Bailey

Born 1968 in Bridgeton, New Jersey, Radcliffe Bailey was raised in Atlanta, Georgia, where he lives and works today.

Bailey’s work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; the Denver Art Museum, Colorado; and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, among many others.

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