Artist Radcliffe Bailey to speak April 3

Friday, March 30, 2012, By Erica Blust

baileyAtlanta-based artist Radcliffe Bailey will present a lecture on Tuesday, April 3 at 6:30 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium in the Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer Art Building. The free, public lecture is part of the Department of Art’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series in the .

Bailey’s most recent solo show, “Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine,” was exhibited in 2011 at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. It is currently on view at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and will also travel to McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas.

Bailey’s work is represented in leading museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the High Museum of Art.

For more information about the lecture, contact Stephen Zaima at szaima@syr.edu.