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BAILEY ANDERSON

Inspired by westerns and patio beers, Anderson is seeking the answer: why are men like that? She approaches her practice informed by the generational practice of wifehood in her family. Her work is also informed by that one time when her grandpa handed her a 12 gauge shotgun instead of the .22 that he said it was. She is consumed by plummeting to earth, high noon staredowns, crashing, and the suspense of the dangling anvil. Her work also leans into the layering of allegories generated in things like cartoons, cowboys, and the bible.

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Bailey Anderson is an interdisciplinary artist critiquing masculinity and patriarchal structures utilizing mansthetics. Through paint, fabric, and cast metal, Anderson untangles systemic violence using humor, emasculation, and cultural reference. In community spaces, she generates room for discussions surrounding gallery spaces, expectations of studio practice, and encourages failure, most proudly in a curatorial project OOPS! 2023, and its second iteration, OOPS! 2, in 2024 in collaboration with Core Contemporary. Anderson is one of the co-founders of the Desert Biennial Project, participating in its first iteration, Stone Soup. Anderson is from Las Vegas and graduated from Arizona State University with a BFA in Intermedia and a BS in Psychology. Her work has been shown in Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Ohio.

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SOLO SHOWS
EGAD !! (2024) - Midway Exhibition for candidacy advancement.CURATORIAL PROJECTS
VESSEL (2024) - VESSEL examines the tangible and intangible edges of selfhood and systems.
OOPS! 2 (2024) - In collaboration with Core Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV
EGAD !! (2024) - Midway Exhibition for candidacy advancement.
Desert Biennial Project (2023) - Cofounder of a traveling Nevada Biennial Art exhibition. Participated in the inaugural iteration, Stone Soup 2023, Jean Dry Lakebed, NV
OOPS! (2023) - Displayed the work of 47 artists as a curational community-based project designed to accumulate and celebrate the failures of artists in the community. Grant Hall Gallery, Las Vegas, NV.EXHIBITION RECORD
Queer Monuments (2024) - Winchester Dondero Cultural Center, Las Vegas, NV
Hand Wash Only (2024) - Holland Project, Reno, NV
Eco Coture (2024) - Las Vegas, NV
Contemporary Roots (2024) - SFCC in collaboration with Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
EGAD !! (2024) - Grant Hall Gallery, Solo, Las Vegas, NV
Stone Soup (Desert Biennial Project) (2023) - Jean Dry Lakebed, NV
Temporary Relief (2023) - Grant Hall Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Medium Rare (2023) - UNR, Reno, NV
Up High + Down Low (2023) - Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Raggedy Stan’s Closet (2023) - Grant Hall Gallery
Hot Reads (2023) - Grant Hall Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Overkill (2023) - Student Union Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Solstice (2022) - Grant Hall Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Eat Your Heart Out (2022) - Winchester Dondero Cultural Center Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Out of the Blue (2022) - Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ
Ex Post Facto (2021) - ASU, Phoenix, AZ - BFA Thesis Exhibition
Roadside Attraction: Now it’s Political (2020) - Multichannel Projection 3:54 Min. Shown at The ASU Art Museum in Tempe, AZ, and ArtFarm in Phoenix, AZ.
Conception (2017) - Emergency Arts, Downtown Las Vegas, NV, SoloAWARDS + GRANTS
Laird Scholarship (2024)
Harris Knudson Scholarship (2024)
GPSA UNLV Grant Funding (2023)
STEAM-Powered Girl Scholarship Fund (Em)powered by Axosoft (2020)
J. Russell & Bonita Nelson Scholarship (2020)
Katherine K. Herberger Scholarship (2020)
School of Art Special Talent Award (2020)
Windgate Foundation Scholarship (2019)
United States Marine Corps Distinguished Athlete Award (2017)BIBLIOGRAPHY + PRESS
Scarlet and Gray (Volume 67 Issue 11) - OOPS! (2023)
Beyond Thought Journal (2023) - Featuring ‘PEEPSHOW’
2D Design Student Sample Portfolio (https://apcentral.collegeboard.org) (2017)COMMUNITY
Desert Biennial Project - Co-founder of a Nevada Based Biennial Art Exhibition
My Boyfriend’s Out of Town - Member and Co-founder of collective
Aluminati 2023 To the Core - Collaborator, Live foundry pour and collaborative mold making
Manifest Gallery - Artist Talk 2023 (Virtual)
Bailey Anderson - Artist Talk Series, UNLV, Approaches to intermedia and running a sustainable studio practice for undergraduates.RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Instructor of Record 2024 - Drawing 1 Spring 2024
Graduate Assistant 2023 - Exhibitions management
Instructor of Record 2023 - Design Fundamentals Fall 2023
Graduate Assistant 2022 - Teaching Assistant (Painting, Photography)
Contract Fabricator and Designer - Various
Studio Assistant 2019 - Lucille Khornak, Manhattan + Long Island CIty, NY
Gallery Manager 2019 - Lucille Khornak Gallery, Southampton, NYEDUCATION
University of Nevada, Las Vegas August 2022 - May 2025 - Studio Art (MFA)
Arizona State University - Intermedia (BFA), Psychology (BS)

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2024

The bull and the matador
steel, satin, lace, ribbon, grommets, lace, glass beads

Scram!
60 fine china plates, solder

the boys (I can't believe this happened + Never saw it comin'
cast aluminum, wood, glass beads

BONK!
cast aluminum, rope

Hopeless Chest
Wood, mirror tiles, rope, cast plastic, steel hardware

fred
satin, lace, ribbon, spent shells, buckles, grommets

Her no. 1
Wood, archival inkjet print, glass beads

Her no. 2
Horse bridle, wood, bolts, glass beads, eyeshadow

After all the conquerin's been done
tattooed leather

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2023

Stargazin'
Oil on canvas

Jack n' Dan
cast brass, enamel

I wish he loved me as much as that damn truck
steel, satin, lace, grommets, ribbon

Visible from space
mirror tiles, pulley, rope, steel hardware

The business end
ballistic gel

peepshow
cast tin, wood

Go on! Git!
tattooed leather

I wish he loved me as much as that damn truck
Installation View
steel, satin, lace, grommets, ribbon

oh fuck! my gun!
Cast tin, wood

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'Elegy For a Deluge' is a nod to underwater minefields, referencing the ancient sea floor that is now the American southwest. The sphere in this object is cast out of abandoned mixed caliber gun shell casings collected from the regional desert.
Image Credit: Desert Biennial ProjectIn collaboration with Iulia Octavia Filipov - Serediuc

This show highlights the work of emerging artists, who are sinking their teeth into process and building a studio practice and spans to established professionals, navigating failure in a variety of contexts.Read it Here on Substack: OOPS! 2023

The Desert Biennial Project was founded in 2023 by Bailey Anderson, Karla Lagunas, and Iulia Octavia Filipov-Serediuc.Desert Biennial Project

Podcast created by ¡Katie B Funk! and Bailey AndersonComing Fall 2024

The second Iteration of OOPS! in collaboration with COre COntemporary and Nancy Good.Read it Here on Substack: OOPS! 2024

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VESSEL

VESSEL examines the tangible and intangible edges of selfhood and systems. The vessel is the human body. The vessel also is a set of parameters defined by traditional American ideologies. This exhibition investigates bodies in the context of larger systems, while considering societal and political constraints. The fragility of the human form is contrasted against the mechanisms of power and American capitalism to highlight the urgency to exercise one's voice and one’s agency.Individuals create communities. Ideologies create systems. Built on the history of Eurocentric colonialism, outdated systems perpetuate a constant violence. Wars over bodies and land are forcing us to question our own agency in our political structures. Our nation's policies have widely influential impacts on the rest of the world, as well as right here at home. These policies create parameters for freedom, contingent on who they serve. These parameters define us through regulating our bodies and deregulating corporate greed and corrupt power. It's time for these parameters to serve our interests and protect our freedoms. Our institutions define limitations akin to the boundaries of our own bodies, but maintain a malleable form through democracy, if we use our voices for the betterment of our communities and others’.

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