XENOBIA BAILEY (1955 - )
Untitled

Inkjet on paper, 2023. 349x279 mm; 13¾x11 inches. Signed and dated in ink, verso.

Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Bailey attended the University of Washington, studied Ethnomusicology, and attained a BFA in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute. Her textile art is inspired by her mother's handmade domestic needle arts and quilted creations, and her mother's collection of domestic textiles of local African American homemakers/caregivers in Seattle. This study and practice has developed into an aesthetic language fused with a range of cultural and experiential influences - including ancient African weaving techniques and the Kongo Cosmogram, a symbol important to Kongo metaphysics and spiritual ceremonies, Chinese, Native American, and Eastern philosophies, with undertones of 1970s Funk.

Bailey's most recent public art installations were at the New York City Art for Transit: #7 Subway Line Extension Station-34th St.-11th Ave., part of the Hudson Yard Development Project with three commissioned mosaic murals. Bailey's other permanent art installations are at Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library, Washington, DC and the Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA. Her artworks are also in the collections of the Facebook Headquarters, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Allentown Textile Museum, the Newark Museum, the Sheldon Museum of Art, the Museum of Arts and Design of New York, the Mott-Warsh Collection, the Fuller Craft Museum, the Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunisia, the US Embassy in Ghana and the US Embassy in Djibouti. Bio courtesy of the artist.

Consigned to support the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.