Fish Factory

Bailey Sherwood is an oil painter who resides in Newberg, Oregon.

Over the last several years I have done work that engages in the interplay between the natural and the unnatural by incorporating stage pieces placed in natural environments.

During my stay at the Fish Factory residency, I was interested in horror and sci-fi texts where the grotesque, the strange, and the alien serve as placeholders for marginal identities, revealing culture’s collective fears and hysteria. I created paintings incorporating a flesh-like figure, warped into an alien form, interacting with the natural landscape. There is a fluidity to the objects that invoke familiar and yet strange images of the flesh. This fluidity, in relationship with nature, serves to challenge the notions of what is natural.

I am very thankful for my time at the Fish Factory and my ability to take advantage of this beautiful surrealist environment around the village of Stöðvarfjörður, creating reference images during my frequent hikes in the area.

Website: https://www.baileysherwood.com/

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