BAILEY ROMAINE
WORKS
ARTIST STATEMENT
Grounded in an understanding of making as searching, Bailey Romaine's works are poetic explorations of the margins of space, language, and longing. By closely reading the grammar of the built environment, she seeks out moments of rupture: the way layers of paint on a wall overlap and bleed onto the hinges of a door, the pattern freshly tuck-pointed bricks make against their weathered counterparts, precarious supports at a construction site, ad hoc home repairs and quick fixes, props, supports, patches. These moments serve as jumping off points for her material improvisations, which unfold, expand, and unravel, until finally crystalizing. The resulting sculptures, drawings, and texts exist in a generative liminal state, caught between the longing for a nameable identity and the desire to continue moving towards new, as yet unthought forms.
BIOGRAPHY
Education
2016 - MFA in Studio Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago
2011 - BFA with emphasis in Liberal Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Selected Exhibitions
2019 - Boundings, Terrain Biennial / Portland, ME
2019 - Paper Positions Basel, ROCKELMANN & PARTNER / Basel, CH
2019 - Lady's Club A Room for One's Own, ROCKELMANN & PARTNER / Berlin, DE
2019 - How to be both, Firehouse #2 / Johnson, VT
2018 - underSTOOD, ROCKELMANN & PARTNER, Berlin, DE
2018 - Bailey Romaine and Megan Stroech, ROCKELMANN & PARTNER for EXPO Chicago / Chicago, IL
2018 - Bailey Romaine for Western Pole, Chicago, IL
2017 - The Shortest Distance Between Two Points, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
2017 - Standards Variance, Public Access, Chicago, IL
2016 - City Flux, 50 Monroe NW, ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI
2016 - More Strange Than True, Pulaski Park Fieldhouse, Chicago, IL
2016 - Ground Floor, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2016 - Just-touching-at-the-tips, Institut für alles Mögliche, Berlin, DE
2016 - Aft, JOBS, Chicago, IL
2016 - Hyphen Makings, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
2015 - Twin Rooms, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL
2015 - Light-framing, Gallery 400 Lobby, Chicago, IL
2014 - In Clipping Signal, The Annex at Spudnik Press, Chicago, IL
2013 - Version Fest: An Urban Operating System, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
2013 - Neutral/Natural, God's Country LLC, Thorntown, IN
2012 - Various Forms: New Collage Work, Roxaboxen Exhibitions, Chicago, IL 2011 The Blank Map, 1800 S. Peoria, Chicago, IL
2011 - The Blank Map, 1800 S. Peoria / Chicago, IL
2011 - BFA Thesis Show, Sullivan Galleries at SAIC / Chicago, IL
Residencies
2019 - The Growlery / San Francisco, CA
2019 - Vermont Studio Center / Johnson, VT
2016 - Institut für alles Mögliche / Berlin, DE
Residencies
2019 The Growlery, San Francisco, CA (upcoming)
2019 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2016 Institute für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, DE
Grants & Awards
2018 - Individual Artist Professional Development Grant, Illinois Arts Council Agency
2018 - Artist's Grant & Community Service Exchange Award, Vermont Studio Center
2016 - Provost Diess Award, University of Illinois at Chicago
2015 - Lobby Exhibition Award, Gallery 400 / Chicago, IL
2015 - Board of Trustees Award & Scholarship, University of Illinois at Chicago
2007 - Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Publications & Artists Books
2019 - “One Can Indeed Not Account,” Number Magazine, Issue #97 “can move or be placed,” for Points, Mike Lopez at Flatland / Chicago, IL
2016 - “Aft”, for solo show at JOBS / Chicago, IL (collaboration with Aaron Walker)
Lectures
2016 - “She Is Free to Not Appear,” Oscillations of Gender and Genre: A Symposium on the Intersections of the Visual and Literary Arts, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
2016 - Visiting Artist Lecture, Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig, DE
2016 - Artist Talk with moderator Erin Nixon, Hyphen Makings, Gallery 400 / Chicago, IL
Selected Bibliography & Interviews
2017 - Tempestt Hazel, “Footnotes for Fragments,” Ground Floor
2016 - catalog, Hyde Park Art Center 2016 Vanessa Gravenor, “Interview with Chicago artist Bailey Romaine in Berlin”, Third Coast Review, September 13 2016 (http://thirdcoastreview.com/2016/09/13/interview-with-chicago-artist-bailey-romaine-in-berlin/)
2016 - "Interview with Bailey Romaine, MFA 2016," Gallery 400, Stories From the Inside (http://gallery400.uic.edu/interact/inside-stories/interview-with-bailey-romaine-mfa-2016)