Bailey Gardner

I take joy in idealising figures, using the Golden Ratio and the grid method. Using vibrant, non-natural colours, I explore the idea of Utopia, an invented world of leisure and pleasure, populated by nude figures at rest. I have also come to love imagining Dystopia through frightening images of disaster and loss of individualism. By showing these two bodies of work together, I play these opposite worlds against each other, contrasting zones that we strive for with those that we do not want to know.

Bailey Gardner is a New York based artist. She received her BFA at University of Kansas and her MFA at New York Studio School. Gardner recently did a post-graduate program at The Slade School of Fine Art in London.

January 2022 to February 2022- Lansdown Gallery, Lewes, United Kingdom, Solo Exhibition

January 2022- Graham Nickson's Marathon, New York Studio School, Teaching Assistantship. Worked under dean Graham Nickson at the New York Studio school for Fall 2022 Marathon

October 2021 to December 2021- New York Studio School Alumni, New York City, New York Mercedes Matter Exhibition

June 2021- New York Studio School, New York, New York, MFA Thesis Show

March 2021- New York Studio School, New York, New York, Student Show

May 2020 to September 2020- Force Gallery, New York, New York, Group Solitude, Group Show Force Gallery, online

November 2019- New York Studio School, New York, New York, Winter Exhibition

May 2019-University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, Senior Show

May 2018- Percolator Gallery, Lawrence, Kansas. Group Show