Then, I got my ass handed to me by the Washington Post on Saturday.

This is a new painting. Yes, it is mine. "you're so beautiful it's starting to rain." 2008. Oil and Acrylic on Canvas. 40x40 inches.

Blake Gopnik says Bailey is a 'genius' in the innovative tradition of Leonardo, Monet, and Duchamp. This, coming from a man who's wife, Lucy Hogg, does the same exact kind of work as Bailey. And works with her at the Corcoran.

"Look-Alike Works Make for an Uncommonly Provocative Show" by Blake Gopnik / Washington Post. Saturday, January 26, 2008.

Rather like scientists, the best artists run "what if" experiments. "What if I soften the contours in my figures," asked Leonardo, "so that a jaw line and the neck below it run into each other?" The result was a realist effect no one had seen before. "What if I show a scene where everything's been broken into tiny dabs of paint?" wondered Monet, while only a few decades later Duchamp tested what would happen if he showed a urinal as art.

Baltimore artist Christine Bailey tests an almost equally strange notion. What if one artist were to suddenly start working in the very different style of a local colleague -- not simply copying specific works, but fully inhabiting that colleague's trademark way of painting? "Christine Bailey: New Work," on show in a corporate lobby in Baltimore, is the experiment. Its results can be seen in the tempest that it caused on the Baltimore art scene.

for the rest, go to:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/25/AR2008012503342.html