Donald Kuspit reviews the exhibition William Bailey at Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, on view through May 12, 2012.

Kuspit writes that Bailey's "objects [are] distilled to their timeless essence, suggesting that they are sort of hallucinatory things in themselves — Platonically pure ideas that Bailey has hallucinated, projections of his imaginative mind's eye, and as such unreal, or rather irreal, for they hover between reality and unreality."