Steffani Bailey

Rock Apart, Leaves Fall

2020

24"h x 26"w x 5"d, 2000, Oil paint on wood panel and painted fragments

$1700.00

Oils on wood panel in the color of silver eucalyptus leaves, this a non-representational, constructed landscape.

Sweep

25"h x 20"w x3"d; 2019, Assemblage, oils on wood with panel fragments, and found wood.

$1600.00

Constructed painting of muted color that incorporates fragments of panel corners "swept" to one corner.

Ruffled

2022

41"h x 20"w x 5"d, 2022, Collage incorporating painted wood fragments, painted board, and molded watercolor on paper. This work is custom framed.

$1700.00

An abstract collage, in a vertical composition, including various boards and papers with a central white wood fragment.

Gust

35'h x 36"w x 3"d; 2022, Assemblage: Oil paint on wood fragments.

$1700.00

This is an asymmetrical composition of various fragments, arranged and "balanced" on a horizontal panel fragment.

Fly Off, and thinking of Kurt

24"h x 17"w x 2"d, 2019, Collage of various rice papers, watercolor paper, and wood dowels. This work is custom framed.

$1200.00

A delicate, abstract, layered collage, of various papers in cool colors, in a vertical direction.

Absence and Return

29"h x 12"w x 3.5"d; 2022, Assemblage, painted construction, oil paint on wood panel and wood fragment with dowel.

$1400.00

A constructed, non-representational landscape of oil paint on wood, with vertical "leaf" and extended dowel.

Statement

This is formal work that involves both the challenges and pleasures of composing. Each work becomes a dialogue that discusses the explorations of shifts in space, choices of color, textures, shapes, and then, choices of balance or movement. These elements, in turn, are often driven and inspired by mood, and observations experienced in nature. Whether I work with paper or wood, the process becomes an emergent interplay of thoughts and material. I don’t work from a plan; it’s an on-going process of painting, arranging, cutting, adding, subtracting, and analyzing. The wood panels bring a certain solidity and an inherent geometry of edges and corners. I often find myself contrasting these features of structural reality to a softened, muted palette, desiring something illusory, something distilled… Hopefully.

When something surprising and unexpected has emerged, I know I’m done.

Education –

Otis Art Institute, BFA, 1974

Loyola Marymount University, MA

Clinical Art Therapy, 1993

California State University, Los Angeles

Single Subject Teaching Credential, 2004

Recent Exhibits through January, 2023:

Viridian Arts 32nd International Juried Exhibition

New York, NY

January 3 - 28, 2023

Awarded 1st Prize

Juror: Heather Ferrell, Curator, Director of Exhibitions

@Burlington City Arts, Vermont

81st Crocker Kingsley

Hosted by Blue Line Arts

Roseville, Ca.

December 12, 2022 – January 14, 2023

Awarded an Honorable Mention

Juror: Emma Saperstein, Chief curator, Director of Education

San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, Ca.

Gems V, Exquisite, Intricate, and Intimate

ArtsBenicia

Benicia, Ca.

November 19 – December 18, 2022

Juror: Susan Aulik, Artist

Brand 50 Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper

Brand Library and Art Center

Glendale, Ca.

September 24 – December 30, 2022

Juror: Shannon Currie Holmes, Brand Gallery Director

Inspired By…

Long Beach Creative Group

Long Beach, Ca.

September 24 – October 22, 2022

Jurors: Cory Bilicko, Ellen Butler, Carlos Cordero, artist members of LBCG

Collectors Choice

Studio Channel Islands

Camarillo, Ca.

March 5 – March 26, 2022

Juror: Sarah Russin, Director of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)

Painting: 2011-2021

Site:Brooklyn Gallery

Virtual exhibit

September 15 – October 13, 2021

Juror: Peter Frank, Independent Curator, writer of contemporary art

Thirty-First International Juried Exhibition

Viridian Artists Inc.,

New York, NY

September 7 - October 2nd, 2021

Juror: Susan Harris, Independent Curator, and writer of contemporary art

All Media 2021

The Irvine Fine Arts Center

Irvine, California

July 12 -September 18th, 2021

Juror: Taylor Bythewood-Porter, Asst. Curator, California African American

Museum

The Green Show

Core New Art Space

Lakewood, Colorado

July 9 – July 25th, 2021

Juror: Denise Demby, Artist

“Variations 2021”

Marblehead Art Association

Marblehead, Massachusetts

January 30 – March 14, 2021

Jurors: Cara Wolahan, Art Historian, Francine Weiss, Artist and Photo Historian, & Beth McLaughlin, Chief Curator @ Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Ma.

Crocker Kingsley, A National Art Competition

Blue Line Art Gallery, Roseville, California

January 8 - February 20th, 2021

Juror: Carrie Lederer, Artist

Brand 48 Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper.

Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, California.

September 12th – October 30th, 2020

Awarded Associates Award

Juror: Dan McCleary, Artist, Educator

Providence Art Club National Open Juried Exhibition, Rhode Island.

May 9th – 29th, 2020

Juror: Matthew Hargraves, PhD, Chief Curator of the Yale Center for British Art.

Gallery 110, “10th Annual International Juried Exhibition

Gallery 110, Seattle, Washington

Feb. 6 – 29, 2020

Awarded Juror’s 2nd Prize

Juror: Amanda Donnan, Curator, the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

“Green”

Site: Brooklyn Gallery

Brooklyn, NY

Dec. 13 – Jan. 11, 2019/20

Juror: Eva Diaz, Author, and Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History @ Pratt.

“Small and Smaller”

Site:Brooklyn Gallery

Brooklyn, New York

September 20 – October 20, 2019

Juror: Heather Darcy Bhandari, independent curator, author, adjunct lecturer Brown University

“Brushstrokes”

San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, Ca.

Sept. 6 – Oct. 27, 2019

Awarded Juror’s Award of Excellence

Juror: Jerry McLaughlin, Artist, Educator, Author

Member of Los Angeles Art Association, 2017 - 2020

Work selected for Los Angeles Art Association’s Volume ll, 2019, and Volume lll, 2021.

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