09/15/2026
"Subtle tensions in Bailey’s oils and temperas between rendering and flatness play off those of saturation and temperature, resonant of Morandi. But observation informs Bailey’s only indirectly; his carefully remembered forms recall Morandi’s circumspect pittura metafisica more than the painterly empirical work." - Margaret McCann on William Bailey in 2018 for the exhibition 'Object Permanence: William Bailey' at the Century Club