GHOSTS
by MK Bailey
Solo Exhibition, Muse Gallery, W-16 1st floor
On view February 15 – April 8, 2023
Reception Date: April 8, 6 pm – 8 pm
“Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!” – Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
The Workhouse Arts Center is proud to present Ghosts, a solo exhibition by MK Bailey. Ghosts contends with the unstable nature of memory. To grasp at a memory by dredging it up, again and again, is to eventually see it distorted into something else entirely. Bailey explores the psychological landscape of these corrupted memories, using acrylic paint and mediums to imagine hauntings not by a hazy and fearful apparition, but rather by a distant place and time. MK Bailey is a painter currently living and working in Washington, D.C. Her works document her day-to-day experiences, dreams, and memories, and are informed by her understanding of nostalgia as a dark force.
Sidewalk IV, 2022
Acrylic, mediums on paper
5 in x 7 in
$500
Sidewalk II-VII, 2023
Acrylic, mediums on paper
5 in x 7 in
$500
Quarantine #4, 2020
Acrylic on Paper
22 in x 30in
$1,000
Quarantine #5 (Strawberry Cremes), 2020
Acrylic on Paper
22 in x 30in
$1,000
For more information about exhibits and a complete list of works, contact Sarah Berry at sarahberry@workhousearts.org
Photos and artworks by MK Bailey (mkbaileyart.com/IG @mk.bailey)