Scott Bailey is an exhibiting artist who serves as the head of the Art Department at Wenatchee Valley College and teaches painting, drawing, and art history-based courses. At WVC, he is also the Director of the MAC Gallery, which presents high quality and thought-provoking contemporary art exhibitions by outstanding faculty, alumni, and invited artists from the region and beyond.

In his desire to make his community a better place for artists, he started and is the founding Board President of the NCW Arts Alliance.

Throughout his career, he has continually produced and shown his creative work, holding dozens of exhibitions (including 20 solo shows) in the US, Japan, Italy, Egypt, and South Africa. His artwork, most often in the form of painting, draws implicitly on his experiences of living in Italy, Japan, and Egypt, and his having traveled to more than 50 countries before settling into Central Washington in 2003.

The nonobjective Accretions paintings are simultaneously beautiful and terrifying to me, reflecting the Sublime and my apprehensions about things exponentially proliferating in the world. Accumulations of millions of tiny bits of color, they may be monotonous and ambivalent fields of grey from afar, but closer inspection reveals variation, depth, and complexity as the surfaces break into thousands of compositions, one nested inside another.

There were over 7 million (~7,164,366) spots of color visible on the surfaces of the paintings in the Accretions exhibition, with many times more buried underneath those top layers. They are the products of a few simple variables repeated and slightly altered from section to section, panel to panel. As in life, amid the cacophony, these pieces struggle to find—between rational and organic; signal and noise; order and chaos—balance.

Website:
https://www.sbailey.us

Contact:
scott.j.bailey@hotmail.com