Major Survey of Contemporary Art in Virginia to Feature Emerging National Artistic Talent
August 5, 2004 (Press Release) --
(Reston, Va.) James W. Bailey, a native of Columbus, Mississippi, and resident of Reston, Virginia, has been announced as one of the juried finalists to participate in the Peninsula Fine Arts Center Biennial 2004. Organized by the Peninsula Fine Arts Center in Newport News, Virginia, this biennial exhibition of emerging national artists is considered by many visual artists and arts professionals in the state to be one of the most competitive and important surveys of contemporary art in Virginia.
Bailey’s experimental “Rough Edge Photography” piece, “Angel of Death”, was juried for inclusion in the exhibition by Carrie Przybilla, a curator since 1998 with the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. Przybilla reviewed 972 entries by 338 artists and selected 123 works by 113 artists for the Biennial 2004. “I am thrilled to have to been invited to be in the Biennial 2004,” says Bailey. “To have my experimental style of film photography acknowledged by a curator of the stature of Ms. Przybilla and to have it presented in one of the premier contemporary art events in Virginia provide a further incentive to keep producing what I hope is meaningful and relevant new work.”
Being juried into the Biennial 2004 continues an impressive trend of national recognition of Bailey’s unique brand of photography by heavily credentialed curators and art critics. Earlier this year he was given an Honorable Mention Award for his “Rough Edge Photography” piece, “Circle Theatre – New Orleans,” at the Bethesda International Photography Competition, by William F. Stapp, the National Portrait Gallery’s first Curator of Photography.
In July Bailey was awarded the prestigious Albert J. Turbessi Award at the 47th Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art for another of his “Rough Edge Photography” pieces, “Woman at the Tomb”, by the internationally renowned American art critic and art historian, Dr. Donald Kuspit.
Bailey explains that his “Rough Edge Photography” method results in the creation of one-of-a-kind images that cannot be duplicated or reprinted like a standard photograph from a negative. “In the case of ‘Angel of Death’, for example, I actually melted my original black and white negative and let the residue drip onto the burned print. The result is that this composite image of a cemetery angel I shot in St. Louis Number II Cemetery and its surrounding brick wall in New Orleans will be the only one that will ever exist.”
“Angel of Death” will be on exhibit at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center Biennial 2004 from September 4 through October 31. An opening reception will take place on September 11. The Biennial 2004 will be held at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center in Newport New, Virginia. For more information, see the Peninsula Fine Arts Center’s web site at http://www.pfac-va.org/.
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Bailey’s experimental “Rough Edge Photography” piece, “Angel of Death”, was juried for inclusion in the exhibition by Carrie Przybilla, a curator since 1998 with the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. Przybilla reviewed 972 entries by 338 artists and selected 123 works by 113 artists for the Biennial 2004. “I am thrilled to have to been invited to be in the Biennial 2004,” says Bailey. “To have my experimental style of film photography acknowledged by a curator of the stature of Ms. Przybilla and to have it presented in one of the premier contemporary art events in Virginia provide a further incentive to keep producing what I hope is meaningful and relevant new work.”
Being juried into the Biennial 2004 continues an impressive trend of national recognition of Bailey’s unique brand of photography by heavily credentialed curators and art critics. Earlier this year he was given an Honorable Mention Award for his “Rough Edge Photography” piece, “Circle Theatre – New Orleans,” at the Bethesda International Photography Competition, by William F. Stapp, the National Portrait Gallery’s first Curator of Photography.
In July Bailey was awarded the prestigious Albert J. Turbessi Award at the 47th Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art for another of his “Rough Edge Photography” pieces, “Woman at the Tomb”, by the internationally renowned American art critic and art historian, Dr. Donald Kuspit.
Bailey explains that his “Rough Edge Photography” method results in the creation of one-of-a-kind images that cannot be duplicated or reprinted like a standard photograph from a negative. “In the case of ‘Angel of Death’, for example, I actually melted my original black and white negative and let the residue drip onto the burned print. The result is that this composite image of a cemetery angel I shot in St. Louis Number II Cemetery and its surrounding brick wall in New Orleans will be the only one that will ever exist.”
“Angel of Death” will be on exhibit at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center Biennial 2004 from September 4 through October 31. An opening reception will take place on September 11. The Biennial 2004 will be held at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center in Newport New, Virginia. For more information, see the Peninsula Fine Arts Center’s web site at http://www.pfac-va.org/.
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