Max Bailey

Presented by Madison Brooke-Willbanks

I began this year incentivized to focus on self-care, and chose to read more, simplistic. My reading habits were falling behind me — when in the past I was an avid reader — and I felt my brain could do well to stay more active, especially in the swarm of 2020. To take this notion into an art piece I chose, quite arbitrarily, a passage from Bob Dylan’s book Tarantula — a series of poems, notes and free associations — it reads: “Say hi to your doctor. Love, Toby Celery.” It felt apt because the whole book is a brain dump of wordplay and language worship. I felt that by virtue of the passage being nonsense, it spoke more deeply to my own love of the language, and reading: to just write something, anything, and have it read.

Max Bailey

Bio: Max Bailey is an artist from Denver, CO and student at PNCA. His work is primarily charcoal drawings on paper, as well as ink drawings and sculptural work. His subject matter is most often object drawing, objects both real and imagined, and landscape (or more aptly, setting), also both real and imagined. His sculptures are abstract forms in metal, wood, and found materials.