Artist Exhibit
February 9 through April 25, 2008

Indira Bailey is a local artist and member of the Plainfield Cultural & Heritage Commission. 

Indira Bailey is a talented and gifted artist whose passion is creating paintings and drawings that depict daily ‘life scenes’ of people moving, living and ‘doing’ things in their environment. 

Her paintings reflect bold and vibrant colors that remember the past and challenge the present. Even as a child, she knew one day that she would follow her dreams and become a professional artist.

Indira Bailey

Indira Bailey was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, to the daughter of a postal worker and a teacher’s aide.  As a little girl she was fascinated by Ernie Barnes’s paintings featured on the TV show ’Good Times' and devoured art books depicting Norman Rockwell’s paintings.

Indira entered her first art show in the children’s division of the annual Plainfield Art Festival. This was the beginning of Indira Bailey’s love affair with art and after high school majored in illustration at Pratt Institute. 

She received a BA in Communication Design in 1990, a MA in Educational Leadership in 2004 from Kean University, and is a member of the Society of Illustrators in New York.

Her African paintings are a work in progress series based on Ms. Bailey’s experiences and travels as a recipient of a Fulbright Hayes Fellowship.

For samples of her work visit Indira Bailey Design Studio or for more information about the exhibit call the
library at 908-757-1111 x112