Aliana Grace Bailey

Body Language
Installation. Weavings and hand-dyed cotton.
2021

Exhibition The Barn is pleased to present Body Language, a new installation at Frampton Co’s experimental art and design gallery in Bridgehampton. Curated by Elena Frampton, Body Language introduces work by three female artists: Aliana Grace Bailey, Molly Findlay, and DZ Maciel. The colorful, tactile works represent and encourage bombastic play, audacious movement, and the softness of connection anew.

“The first of the site-specific installations is conceived by Washington DC and Baltimore-based Aliana Grace Bailey, a multihyphenate designer and socially engaged artist. She activates the double- height air-space with suspended weavings and fabric hangings in a vibrant display of soft textures and organic forms. Building on themes from her 2018 exhibition My Body is Deserving, the work expands on concepts of embodied spiritual experiences. Tethered to feelings of love, healing, and connection to creative practice, the work was “created during a period of intentional detachment from that which hinders my ability to live authentically and show up fully,” says Bailey. Her hand- woven and -dyed multicolor panel weavings of yarn and wool entangle with cotton-fabric crocheted chutes, “sculpted” into curious and compelling shapes draped like stalactites from the rafters, and looping through the air in a balletic dance.”

Photography by Joshua McHugh