Photo: Loran Maron
Photo: Loran Maron

Beverage Set

USA, 1900
Clay Art Center, Port Chester, New York
Date acquired:
Materials:
Stoneware
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural: N/A
Method:
Thrown
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes:
Glaze
Matt Kelleher

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.

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Clay Art Center, Port Chester, New York

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