Known for his innovative and irreverent ceramic and metal sculpture, Clayton Bailey was a lead figure in the Funk Art and Nut Art movements. He lived in Port Costa, California, for many years, and from 2013 until recently, he ran the Bailey Art Museum in Crockett, California.
Bailey had thirty-three solo museum shows, and his work is in the permanent collections of more than sixty major museums, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the de Young Museum, California;, the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; and the Valentin-Karlstadt in Munich, Germany.