Radcliffe Bailey
Astro Beeing, 1995
In his mixed-media assemblages, Radcliffe Bailey nestles nineteenth-century tintypes and found objects within expressive layers of paint to explore the merging of Black identity, African American history, and cultural memory. As he stated in a 2018 artnet interview, “I feel like I always have a foot back in time.” By bringing the past into dialogue with the present, Bailey both addresses history and promotes healing through art.