Scene in Cascade: Radcliffe Bailey

We don't want you to rubberneck to see the Radcliffe Bailey event flags the next time you drive down Cascade Road.

So, here's the scoop.

The work of the internationally-acclaimed Benjamin Mays High School graduate is featured in a National Black Arts Festival High Museum Exhibition called "Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine" through Sept. 11. 

According to a High Museum essay about Bailey, his work explores American history and memory to encourage healing and transcendence through art. The exhibition features 37 works ranging from heroic to intimate scale, including installations, paintings, sculptures, mixed media, photos on metal, and works on paper.

And the photo?

It was shot by Bailey's celebrity wife Victoria Rowell of Young and the Restless Fame. The two were introduced by Hollywood royalty Samuel L. Jackson (a 1972 Morehouse College graduate) and married in 2009.

Born in 1968 in New Jersey, Bailey moved to Atlanta when he was four years old. According to the High essay, his interest in art was piqued by visits to the High and the art classes he took at the Atlanta College of Art. Bailey earned a bachelor of fine arts from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991.

Bailey's work is represented in leading museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

For more information about Bailey's High exhibit or to purchase tickets, visit the High Museum page on Radcliffe Bailey.

Stay tuned to Cascade Patch for an exclusive interview with Bailey.