Deconstructing Place by Isabella Bailey
April 28, 2023 through October 28, 2023
Institute for Human Science and Culture Walkway
Deconstructing Place is born from a collection of local sites, abstracted to discuss themes such as construction and simultaneous time and space. It uses the structure of the contemporary metropolitan city as scaffolding to build a nonfunctional conglomeration of space upon. The free form structure of the compositions contributes to a sense of infinite space, where every element has the opportunity to grow from and then return to the composition. The materiality of the assembled components introduces an interactive element, where the painting begins to react to the exhibition space, the light, and the viewer, encouraging the work to evolve and adapt to the context in which it is viewed. Visual paradoxes are displayed to provide the viewer with a directional choice while navigating the space, prompting a more investigative viewing experience. Are you moving outward, inward, both, or neither? Each piece preserves a moment in time and space not by freezing it, but by allowing it to function within its own reality that the viewer is able to revisit and live within.
Isabella Bailey is a Firestone High School graduate currently pursuing a BFA in painting at the University of Akron's Myers School of Art, class of 2025. With a major in Painting and a minor in metalsmithing, Bailey creates work that incorporates various materials and techniques.
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