Closing reception of the solo exhibition 'Gasoline Epochs' by Robert Bailey, with an artist talk and ASL interpreters.
Robert Bailey is closing out his solo exhibition, Gasoline Epochs, at the Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center on Friday, November 20. The closing reception runs from 5 PM to 7 PM, and it includes an artist talk with Bailey himself, who'll talk through the show and his time as a resident at the center. The exhibition was part of the center's residency program, so this is the final chance to see it before it comes down.
The work takes something we usually ignore—gasoline canisters and oil quart containers—and treats them as vessels of memory, desire, and greed. Bailey casts them in bronze and aluminum, giving these everyday objects weight and a kind of personhood, turning them into witnesses to the modern condition. Across three installations depicting scenes of birth, marriage, and death, they speak of dependence, aspiration, and the inescapable gravity of finance. There's a contrast at play here: the cold, fossilized sheen of the metal set against the warmth of human longing.
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Because the closing reception is the main event, you'll get to see the installations and then hear Bailey talk about them and his residency in person. ASL interpreters will be provided for the talk. The center is at 3749 Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, and the reception runs from 5 PM to 7 PM on Friday, November 20.
