Clayton Bailey
A VISIT TO CLAYTON BAILEY
California Artist, Clayton Bailey is a well known ceramic and sculpting artist whose studio and museum are located in Port Costa, CA. In 2012, Jim Spitzer (fellow artist and graduate of the University of Wisconsin –as is Bailey) and I visited Bailey's Wonderful World. It is worth a visit and a viewing here as well.
Clayton Bailey
Clayton Bailey was one of the most important Bay Area sculptors who founded the Funk Art Movement. He was the first major artist who used objects to create robot art during the 60s, which resulted in a revolution of contemporary assemblage art throughout the United States.
In the first video of our new series, John Natsoulas and art historian and painter Jerry DeCamp reflect on the life and works of Clayton Bailey, who recently passed away in June.
Based on the book, 'Clayton Bailey: Happenings in the Circus of Life', this video includes a lecture by Bailey at the California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, followed by a brief demonstration of performance raku.
This series aims to showcase some of the greatest Californian and American artists of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. In our next video, we will be discussing the life works of David Gilhooly, a leading advocate of funk art who challenged the seriousness of the art world by focusing on absurd images of everyday objects.
Find the book here:
Recorded and edited by Judd Takai.
SCULPTOR Clayton Bailey with a series of CERAMIC exploding bottles.
SCULPTOR Clayton Bailey with a series of CERAMIC exploding bottles.
Clayton, respected for his pioneering ceramic works, and beloved for his eccentric robots and metal figures, creates a World of Wonders that inspires generations of Bay Area artists.
A major influence on the Bay Area art scene since the 1960's, Bailey defines the Bay Area Funk movement; which champions personality and conceptual humor– the visible hand and visual wit of the artist.
Public Collections:
Addison Gallery of American Art- Andover, MA
American Craft Museum, New York City
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan
Bakken Museum and Library, Minneapolis, MN
Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA
Bank of America, Chicago, IL
Brooks Memorial Gallery, Memphis, TN
Burpee Museum, Rockford, IL
Carborundum Museum of American Ceramics, NY
Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DL
DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA
di Rosa Art Preserve. Napa, CA
Elvehjem Museum of Art ,University of Wisconsin,
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Hokkoku Shinbun, Korinbo, Japan
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Iowa State Art Association, Marshalltown, IA
Johnson Foundation, Racine, WI
Katzen Museum, American University, Washington, DC
Kohler Company, Kohler, WI
Karstadt, Munich, Germany
Metromedia Corp., Los Angeles, CA
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Leslie Ceramic Supply, Berkeley, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
Microsoft Corp., Seattle, WN
Mills College, Oakland, CA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu, HI
Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
Musee d' ethnographie, Neuchatel, Switzerland
Muskingum College, Muskingum, Ohio
Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, Canada
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Racine Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Redding Museum, Redding, CA
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC
Rhinelander Chamber of Commerce, Rhinelander, WI
Richard Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
Sacramento Light Rail, 16th Street Station (Pavement Tiles)
Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Shasta College, Redding, CA
Stanford University, Green Library, Palo Alto, CA
Stanford University, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, CA
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
University of Utah Museum of Art
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI