"Cats hate it," he said after pulling the trigger. "It is the last thing you have to shoot in full space of porcelain, isn't it?"
But think of breaking one of her ceramic sculpture or break something in the workshop is not enough to stop the artist from having fun. Appropriate because, for more than half a century, Bailey has been amusing herself and others with his funny naughty.
Full reference to the science of anthropology, Bailey's clay and metal sculptures-many of which are on display at the "world of Clayton Bailey miracle", a 50-year retrospective at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento–stands on its own in contemporary art. Consists of subjects ranging from the mad doctor and archaeological specimens for robots. Aliens and scientific apparatuses, pieces that feel like its funky vintage comics and a supermarket tabloid that has come to life.
But while Museums from Oakland to Japan to Germany, and the founder of the House of his Microsoft Bill Gates and magician David Copperfield among his collectors, Bailey soft-spoken has so much that is stuck in a trap of independent art world celebrities.
Art is also respected by his colleagues, including noted sculptor Tony Natsoulas Sacramento-based, large ceramic portrait of the artist in the form of her own–a mad scientist named Dr. George Gladstone–Tower at Bailey's page.