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Clayton Bailey is known as a potter, a ceramic sculptor, and a multimedia artist. Bailey's ceramic work consists of wheel-thrown stoneware, many with sculptural appendages; low-fire slip-cast sculptures with china paints and lusters, and hand-built stoneware sculpture. His multi-media work incorporates clay, metal, wood, hair, felt, electricity, flashing lights, and found objects.

Inspired by the work of Peter Voulkos, Bailey ripped slabs into constructions, making an allusion to layered geological formations. Bailey was also inspired by German salt glazed Bellarmines (round-bellied jugs decorated with bearded faces), and by Japanese terra cotta Haniwa figures.

Bailey created the fictional persona and alter ego Dr. George Gladstone about whom he could tell stories. Humor is always an important component of his work.

Bailey also made tiles for a subway commission.

1999

2001

Artist in Residence Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, Montana

2003

Shigaraki Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan

2005

2008

Residency, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

2001

2004

Adjunct Professor, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas

2015—

Assistant Professor, School of Art and Design, Alfred University, Alfred, New York

Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, Montana

Newman University - Steckline Collection, Wichita, Kansas

Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park Resident Collection, Shigaraki, Japan

Yixing Ceramics Museum, Yixing, Chinax

8th Annual Strictly Functional Pottery National, Catalog. Lancaster, PA: Lancaster Museum of Art, April 2000.

9th Annual Strictly Functional Pottery National, Catalog. Lancaster, PA: Lancaster Museum of Art, April, 2001.

13th Annual Strictly Functional Pottery National, Catalog. Lancaster, PA: Lancaster Museum of Art, April 2005.

14th Annual Strictly Functional Pottery National, Catalog. Lancaster, PA: Lancaster Museum of Art, April 2006.

“21 Young American Potters.” Studio Potter 32, no. 2 (June 2004).

Functional Ceramics 2003, Catalog. Wooster, OH: Wayne Center for the Arts, March 2003.

Gallagher, Matt. “Ceramicist Takes Control with ‘Atmosphere.'” The Athens Insider, November 19, 2003.

Hluch, Kevin A. The Art of Contemporary American Pottery, Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2001.

Iowa Artists 1997, Catalog. Des Moines, IA: Des Moines Art Center, May 1997.

Lapointe, Nancy Frommer. “A Visit to the Bray.” Ceramics Monthly (January 2001).

Schultz, Katey. "The Poetics of Collaboration." Ceramics Monthly (October 2008).

Seckler, Judy. "Shining the Light on Craft in America." Ceramics Monthly (April 2007).Tourtillott, Suzanne J. E. Pitchers: Contemporary Expressions of a Classical Form. Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 2006.

“Up Front,” Ceramics Monthly (November 2001).

“Up Front,” Ceramics Monthly (May 2011).

"What it Takes: Working Potters." Ceramics Monthly (June/July 2007).

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Matt Kelleher

Typical Marks

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Clay Art Center, Port Chester, New YorkUnited States

rosenfieldcollection.comDallas, Texas

Take your place among TMP artists

Clay Art Center, Port Chester, New York
United States

rosenfieldcollection.com
Dallas, Texas