Robots, ceramics, bigfoot, and a mad scientist's lab
April 27, 2017 11:36 AM Subscribe
Opened in 2013, The Bailey Art Museum in Crockett, California (under the Carquinez bridge on the I-80 route between San Francisco to Sacramento) is run by artists Clayton and Betty Bailey. (2002 Previously.)
It features robot sculptures made from salvaged metal, some of which have motion-activated electronics, rayguns, a mad scientist's lab, ceramics including face jugs, kinetic ceramics, and exploding clinker bottles.
Clayton Bailey's associate Dr. Gladstone has also discovered a kaolithic skeleton of a Bigfoot and artifacts from the Pre-Credulous Era.
Clayton Bailey has been making ceramic sculptures since the 1960s, and came to California in 1967 initially at the request of fellow ceramic sculptor Robert Arneson, who was taking a leave from U.C. Davis. From 1970 to 1978 he ran the the World of Wonders Museum. Bailey is sometimes grouped with Funk Art or Nut Art. Bailey was the subject of a retrospective at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento in 2011-12, for which there is an associated catalog.
Clayton Bailey has been making ceramic sculptures since the 1960s, and came to California in 1967 initially at the request of fellow ceramic sculptor Robert Arneson, who was taking a leave from U.C. Davis. From 1970 to 1978 he ran the the World of Wonders Museum. Bailey is sometimes grouped with Funk Art or Nut Art. Bailey was the subject of a retrospective at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento in 2011-12, for which there is an associated catalog.
Crockett is a super-cute little old town, worth a stop.
posted by suelac at 12:01 PM on April 27, 2017
posted by suelac at 12:01 PM on April 27, 2017
The art museum is great, and Clayton Bailey is usually there in person. He has always been super gracious to our kids when we've visited. He even let them shoot champagne corks out of some kind of homemade pneumatic gun (in retrospect sort of a dangerous activity). Highly recommend for funky robot/paranormal art!
posted by Wavelet at 2:17 PM on April 27, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Wavelet at 2:17 PM on April 27, 2017 [1 favorite]
Hmmm....
A burping bowl instead of an apartment pet? Certainly not as cuddly.
posted by BlueHorse at 2:21 PM on April 27, 2017
A burping bowl instead of an apartment pet? Certainly not as cuddly.
posted by BlueHorse at 2:21 PM on April 27, 2017
I like his Demon Dogs!
No wait, I like his Radioactive Waste Jars!!
WHAT WOULD JAKE SULLY DO??!?
Man, this is great!
posted by Trinity-Gehenna at 6:18 PM on April 27, 2017 [1 favorite]
No wait, I like his Radioactive Waste Jars!!
WHAT WOULD JAKE SULLY DO??!?
Man, this is great!
posted by Trinity-Gehenna at 6:18 PM on April 27, 2017 [1 favorite]
I just know if I go there, the whole time I'm gong to be humming the theme song to Gravity Falls.
posted by happyroach at 11:30 PM on April 27, 2017
posted by happyroach at 11:30 PM on April 27, 2017
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