Baltimore Sun: "In The Eye of the Beholder" by Sam Sessa and Glen McNatt. 1.25.208.
2008
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In New Work, Bailey wanted to experiment with the practice of appropriating on a more local and personal level, she said. She aimed to challenge the business model of art-making within the marketplace and present it in a new light, she said.
"For me, this was very much a project about how or if I could steal someone's artistic identity and what that would look like," Bailey wrote in an email to Ober. "Could I be the Old Navy to Cara Ober's The Gap?"
In New Work, Bailey wanted to experiment with the practice of appropriating on a more local and personal level, she said. She aimed to challenge the business model of art-making within the marketplace and present it in a new light, she said.
"For me, this was very much a project about how or if I could steal someone's artistic identity and what that would look like," Bailey wrote in an email to Ober. "Could I be the Old Navy to Cara Ober's The Gap?"
