Bauman

Featured Artist: Jane Bauman

Artist Statement

My latest body of work are paintings where I am having a conversation with myself, with my past art. I have always saved lots of stuff - studio detritus, interesting looking things in the trash, failed paintings etc. My studio is like an archeological midden where I am digging up pieces from my past, reworking and reinventing the images to be a current expression. It's been an interesting and productive way to work in light of the Covid quarantine. It also plays into my interest and longing for tangibility in a new weird world of so much isolation and virtuality.

I started this project in 2019 when I was gathering up material for a book published by Black Curatorial Projects about my East Village Art from the 1980's. I dug up about 100 or so stencil/spray painted paintings on paper each 10" x 10", and a few on larger formats. I hadn't seen some of these for decades! I started to add to this older collection and combine new and old work to make diptychs and polyptych compositions. My previous body of work, "FloraBau" used a lot of iridescence, this newest body of work is very concerned with florescence and how that changes our perception.

Artist Biography

Jane Bauman was born in Burbank, California and considers growing up in Los Angeles county to be a formative influence. Surf culture, the 60's hippie movement, psychedelic music and the Hollywood movie industry were all there and combined to make for an enriched environment.

After graduating from Santa Clara University Bauman went to graduate school at the San Francisco Art Institute where she became an active participant in the punk/no wave culture of the late 1970s and began to do her first street art as well as making paintings and sculpture. This was also when she began to do collaborative work with fellow artists Jack Johnston and Mark C.

After graduate school in 1980 Bauman moved to NYC and became a part of the East Village Art Scene where she was represented by Civilian Warfare Gallery. In addition to showing her work extensively in NY and Western Europe, she continued to do collaborations with David Wojnarowicz, Huck Snyder, Paul Benney and Mark C. including extensive work at Pier 34.

In 1989 she moved back to Southern California and became a Fine Arts Professor at Coastline College in Orange County. From 2003 - 2013 she taught six Study Abroad Programs in Florence, Italy which had a big impact on her art. Terrain Gallery, Brett Rubbico Gallery and Jamie Brooks Fine Arts have represented her in California. Her most recent solo exhibition was at ClampArt Gallery NYC, in October 2020. She is currently represented by Jamie Wilson at agenda.pdx.

Website: www.artatjanebauman.space