GEOFFREY BAYLISS | white, and black on white

Opening Reception with the artist : Thursday August 24th from 5-7pm

Bayliss has long been known for the strength and careful lines of his ink drawings and monotypes, in which he informs us with the least mark-making—a reductive technique akin to the British artist Ben Nicholson and the American, Ellsworth Kelly. 

When he turned his attention to the linocut method of printmaking, the same intensity and purity of line opened a new field of exploration and complexity.

Recently, Bayliss has returned to sculpture, revisiting methods he studied at Columbia University. He’s chosen to work with papier-mâché, an unconventional medium, to allow for fantasy and lightness in a nod to the Austrian artist Franz West. 

This latest exhibition—on view through September 3rd—celebrates his two-dimensional work on paper and his experimental work in sculpture — all media in the sophistication of white, and black on white. 

Geoffrey Bayliss, a native of Gloucester, holds a BA in architecture from Columbia University. He has studied with artist Celia Eldridge, sculptor John Bozarth, printmaker Coco Berkman, and artist Charlotte Roberts.  His work is held in numerous private collections in the US.  Bayliss’s work was recently featured at OMG Art Faire, Kingston NY — the first contemporary art fair in New York’s Hudson Valley. This is his fifth solo show with Jane Deering Gallery.