Place of Mind, a collaborative project of poet Richard Blanco and artist John Bailly

“When two worlds collide, mayhem or genius can ensue. Consider the freestyle fellowship that has developed between painter John Bailly and poet Richard Blanco, and the latter rings true…The show features prints, paintings, and book art Bailly created in dialogue with Blanco’s poems. The gang of two has spun what might be read as dynamic visual diaries by engaging in a conversational collaborative process, which allowed the raw intensity of their personal dramas and musings on history to flow.” – Carlos Suarez de Jesus, Miami New Times

ClampArt is proud to present “John Bailly: Place of Mind.” The mixed media works in the “Place of Mind” series are the result of Bailly’s collaboration with critically acclaimed Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco (whom President Barack Obama recently named inaugural poet, following in the footsteps of such luminary writers as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou). The exhibition is organized in cooperation with the University of Maine Museum of Art (UMMA), where larger paintings and other works on paper from the “Place of Mind” series will be on display from April 5 – June 8, 2013. (The UMMA show, coordinated by Director and Curator, George Kinghorn, will travel, and is available for immediate bookings.)

The Place of Mind works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.