Because it’s Valentine’s Day, a heart. This one appears in an untitled work by Radcliffe Bailey in a show that opens tomorrow at the Davis, Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine. “His mixed-media paintings and installations incorporate objects steeped in history — including tintypes of distant family members, African figurines, disassembled piano keys and Georgia red clay — and suggest stories of the black Atlantic diaspora and migrations more universal and spiritual,” the New York Times wrote of the show.
Radcliffe Bailey, Untitled, 2010 (mixed media). Courtesy of Jack Gainman Gallery, New York.
