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1939 Antigo, Wisconsin - 2020 Port Costa, California. Known for: Funk metal and ceramic sculpture, earthenware objects, teaching.
Clayton Bailey, an eccentric ceramicist and leading figure of the Bay Area “Nut Art” movement of the early 1970s, died Saturday, June 6, at 81. Bailey died in hospice at his Port Costa home of 50... Read full biography
Clayton Bailey, an eccentric ceramicist and leading figure of the Bay Area “Nut Art” movement of the early 1970s, died Saturday, June 6, at 81. Bailey died in hospice at his Port Costa home of 50 years. The cause of death was a steady decline following a stroke suffered in 2019, said his daughter... Read full biography
Clayton Bailey, an eccentric ceramicist and leading figure of the Bay Area “Nut Art” movement of the early 1970s, died Saturday, June 6, at 81. Bailey died in hospice at his Port Costa home of 50 years. The cause of death was a steady decline following a stroke suffered in 2019, said his daughter Robin Liebes of Thousand Oaks (Ventura County). Bailey was a tenured professor of ceramics at Cal State Hayward (known today as Cal State East Bay), where he was the chair of the art department from... Read full biography
Clayton Bailey, an eccentric ceramicist and leading figure of the Bay Area “Nut Art” movement of the early 1970s, died Saturday, June 6, at 81. Bailey died in hospice at his Port Costa home of 50 years. The cause of death was a steady decline following a stroke suffered in 2019, said his daughter Robin Liebes of Thousand Oaks (Ventura County). Bailey was a tenured professor of ceramics at Cal State Hayward (known today as Cal State East Bay), where he was the chair of the art department from 1984 to 1987. In 1996, he took early retirement at age 57. From that point on, he was dedicated to his own work in the genres of ceramic and metal sculpture. He also veered into performance art in the persona of his alter ego, “Dr. George Gladstone,”... Read full biography
Clayton Bailey, an eccentric ceramicist and leading figure of the Bay Area “Nut Art” movement of the early 1970s, died Saturday, June 6, at 81. Bailey died in hospice at his Port Costa home of 50 years. The cause of death was a steady decline following a stroke suffered in 2019, said his daughter Robin Liebes of Thousand Oaks (Ventura County). Bailey was a tenured professor of ceramics at Cal State Hayward (known today as Cal State East Bay), where he was the chair of the art department from 1984 to 1987. In 1996, he took early retirement at age 57. From that point on, he was dedicated to his own work in the genres of ceramic and metal sculpture. He also veered into performance art in the persona of his alter ego, “Dr. George Gladstone,” who wore a white lab coat and pith helmet while performing excavations and pranks. “Clayton’s art was anti-mainstream,” said Philip... Read full biography
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Keywords (17)
Art Method
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Aluminum/Aluminium
- •Art Pottery
- •Ceramic Art, Porcelain, Design and/or Decoration
- •Ceramics
- •Clay, Earthenware Vessels
- •Stoneware, Stone, Stonecut, Sandstone
Art Style
- •Abstraction and Realism; Semi Abstract
- •Funk Art
- •Performance Art, Happenings
Art Subject
- •Hand-Crafted Objects
Awards/Recognition
- •Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, Fellowship
- •National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Sao Paulo Bienniale
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago