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Tucker Bailey
The main focus of my work is what is around me. I am involved with horses and therefore all things equine interest me. I have had a lifelong love for all animals, volunteering as a docent and in the neo-natal team at the North Carolina Zoological Park near my home. Each animal species has its own particular features and each piece is a tremendous learning experience. I try to be true to the animal and at the same time bring out its individuality by taking it a step beyond a realistic interpretation.
From the first time I saw bronzes up close, as a young girl, at the Minneapolis Institute of Art I've been totally captivated by the reality of three-dimensional sculpture. Sculpture is a medium that constantly changes with a changing point of view, a surface of bronze has a reflective quality and the angle of light dramatically changes perception. I also paint, but when I work in three dimensions I look at things with so much more intensity. Creating sculpture is very thought involved and emotional, but also physical. I am constantly striving to improve my work.
Tucker Bailey
9010 Deer Hill Road
Belews Creek, North Carolina 27009
336.595.5104
SELECTED AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS
North Carolina Zoological Park, Asheboro, North Carolina
Commissioned to sculpt small African rain forest animals
for the African Pavilion and Chimpanzee Exhibit.
Sculptures to be installed 2002
Commissioned to sculpt Giraffes for placement at the Forest Edge Exhibit
Sculpture installed April 2001
Commissioned to sculpt an Arctic Fox for placement at the Arctic Fox Exhibit
Sculpture installed August 1999
Commissioned to sculpt Elephants for placement at the Elephant Exhibit
Sculpture installed July 1999
Commissioned to sculpt Giraffes for placement at the Forest Edge Exhibit
Sculpture installed June 1998
Society of Animal Artists
National Geographic Exhibition, Washington, D.C.
June-September 2002
Always Animals Benefit and Sales Show at
The Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Cedar City, Utah
October-November 2001
Art and The Animal 41st Annual Exhibition at
The West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, Arizona
September-October 2001
Sculpture chosen for national museum tour
Art and The Animal 40th Annual Exhibition at
The William Fairfield Public Gallery, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Sculpture chosen for national museum tour
September-October 2000
Natural Selections IV at John D. MacArthur
Beach State Park, North Palm Beach, Florida
March-April 2000
Art and The Animal 39th Annual Exhibition at
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio
September-October 1999
Art and The Animal 38 th Annual Exhibition at
Disney’s Wild Kingdom, Orlando, Florida
July-September 1998
Exhibition and Benefit at Ambleside Gallery, Grosse Pointe, Michigan
October 1998
Benefit Show at the Yankee Heritage Arts and Nature Festival,
West Boylston and Grafton, Massachusetts
April and May 1998
Wild and Wonderful Exhibition and Benefit Sale at
The Hiram Blauvelt Museum, Oradell, New Jersey
May 1997
National Sculpture Society
Sports Sculpture at the Park Avenue Atrium, New York, New York
May-July 2002
The Pen & Brush, Inc.
55th and 56th Annual Sculpture and Medallic Art Exhibition, New York, New York
Received the Katherine Thayer Hobson Memorial Award, 2002
Received the Charlotte Dunwiddie Memorial Award for Animal Sculpture, 2001
American Academy of Equine Artists
Fall Open Juried Exhibition at The William G. Kenton
Gallery in the
International Museum of the Horse at the Kentucky Horse Park, Lexington,
Kentucky
September-October 2002
The Equestrian's Perspective at The Sportsman's Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
April 2000
Hudson Valley Art Association
71 st Annual Exhibition, Hastings on Hudson, New York
May 2002
Bennington Center for The Arts
Impressions of New England, Bennington, Vermont
August 2001
National Association of Women Artists
113th Annual Exhibition, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
June 2002
Small Things Considered-112 th Annual Exhibition, New York, New York
June 2001
A Woman's View at the Maurice M. Pine Library Gallery, Fairlawn, New Jersey
March 2001
Greenhill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, North Carolina
Collector's Choice/Winter Show
December 1999, 2000, 2001
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club
Annual Open Exhibition at the National Arts Club, New York, New York
October 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001
Received the Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Medal for sculpture in 1993
South Eastern Wildlife Exposition, Charleston, South Carolina
February 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2003