User:Roberthodge 1/sandbox

Radcliffe Bailey is an American artist who was Born in 1968, Bridgeton, NJ but grew up in the south(Atlanta,Ga) which inspired and shaped his work as it is presently.Radcliffe Bailey graduated in 1991 from the Atlanta College of Art(Savannah College of Art presently)and currently lives and works in Atlanta on civil war grounds, two blocks away from his parents. Radcliffe Bailey creates work about his African American family history and the mystery of history as a universal language. Bailey once said his mother was quietly creating experiences for him to make art when he was a child. Bailey says "She was my first art teacher and is, today, my most important critic. She introduced me to museums at a young age, allowing for my first encounters with African art".Bailey work is also inspired by scientists, preachers, tricksters, as they are my muses to his creative process. Bailey's work is also influenced by athletes, musicians, poets, inventors, and practitioners, like George Washington Carver and the recently-deceased Charleston blacksmith Philip Simmons for example. Though Radcliffe Bailey was trained as a sculptor, Bailey is also a painter, and works experimentally across many medias. Starting in 2003, Bailey began to make what he calls"medicine cabinet sculptures," accumulative works that combine sculpture and painting, inspired conceptually by Kongo minkisi.