Jane Bauman is an American

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, and academic. She has been a professor and Chair of the Visual and Performing Art Department at Coastline Community College in

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. As a working artist, she is very active in the

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art scene.

Early life and education

Bauman was born in

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and grew up in

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where

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, the 60’s

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psychedelic music Psychedelic music (sometimes called psychedelia) is a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as Dmt, DMT, Lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD, mescaline, ...

and the Hollywood movie industry had a formative influence on her artistic development.

Career

Bauman received her Bachelor’s degree from

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in 1973. She then enrolled at

San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a Private college, private art school, college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mis ...

and earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1980. Shortly after graduating from SFAI, she moved to New York City and became very active in the East Village art scene. She also took an interest in the punk/

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culture of the late 1970s and began to do her first street art as well as making paintings and sculptures. She created the cover for the

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issue #10 ''All Guitars!''. Out of Gas by Jane Bauman

In 1988, Bauman left New York and moved back to California where she became a full professor and Chair of the Visual and Performing Art Department at Coastline College in Newport Beach. From 2003 through 2013, she taught six Study Abroad Programs in Florence, Italy which had a big impact on her art.

Works

Bauman’s artworks are based on decay, quick application, and associations with outlaw

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and subcultures. In her paintings, she uses commercial

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s for their bright colors. The distinguishing characteristic of her work is the sharp-edge of her

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ed images. She collaborated on several art projects with Mark C. (of

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). Their first collaboration was a series of painted records and album covers satirizing corporate music. Their second collaboration was a series of painted photographs that were exhibited at

Civilian Warfare Gallery Originally founded as Civilian Warfare Studio in Dean Savard's storefront live/work painting studio at 526 East 11th Street, between Avenues A and B in the East Village, casual salons held with friends eventually led to the formation of a formal ar ...

in 1986. Her work was included by Tricia Collins and

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in the Collins & Milazzo exhibition ''Natural Genre: From the Neutral Subject to the Hypothesis of World Objects'' in 1984 at the

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Gallery and Museum. Also Bauman was a participant in the ''Pier 34'' graffiti project that was documented by Andreas Sterzing in 1983/84. Her art is in public collections, including The Cooper-Hewitt, Museum of American Art, The Musee de Cloitre des Cordeliers, and The Thomas Armann Foundation. Jack Johnston grouped her

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into two categories: cast pieces and hand-formed shapes. In 2011, Genie Davis praised Bauman’s artworks and regarded her as one of the well-known artists of the time. Eric Minh Swenson filmed her artworks in the form of a documentary describing Bauman’s different painting styles. In 1993, Bauman attended OC Forum and focused on the discussion of ''How the Arts Can Help in the AIDS Crisis'', which was featured in the

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.''''

Selected artworks

*''East Village Art'', 1980s *''Backwards America'', 1980 *''Red Phone'', 1980 *''Falling Man and Statue of Liberty'', 1981 *''Skyline'', 1981 *''Big Volcano'', 1981 *''Dark House'', 1979-1981 *''Not OK'', 1983 *''Sighting Mothra'', 2011 *''Apophenia'', 2016 *''Remnant/Detritus'', 2018 *''FloraBau'', 2015-2018 *''Dante's Inferno''

Selected exhibitions

*ClampArt Gallery, "Empty Stencils: The Street Art of Jane Bauman, David Wojnarowicz, and Artists From Civilian Warfare Gallery", NYC, 2020 *LGBT Advocate & Gochis Galleries, "Let Me Come Home", Los Angeles, CA 2019 *Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, "Painting to Survive: 1985 – 95", NYC, NY 2018 *4th Element Gallery, "FloraBau", solo exhibition, Santa Ana, CA 2018 *Hunter College Art Gallery, "Something Possible Everywhere, Pier 34", NYC, NY 2016 *Brett Rubbico Gallery, "Sighting Mothra", solo exhibition, Newport Beach, CA, 2013 *At Space Gallery, "Apophenia", solo exhibition, Santa Ana, CA 2009 *Chapman University Guggenheim Gallery, "Beyond Abstraction", Orange, CA 2008 *At Space Gallery, "True Hallucinations", solo exhibition, Santa Ana, CA 2007 *Turner Carroll Gallery, "Works on Metal", Santa Fe, NM 2004 *Terrain Gallery, "Jane Bauman", solo exhibitions, San Francisco, CA 1988 & 1989 *Civilian Warfare Gallery, "Jane Bauman – Mark C: Photo/Painting Collab", NYC, NY 1986 *Holly Solomen Gallery, "Selected Artists from the East Village", NYC, NY 1985 *Anna Freibe Gallery, "Jane Bauman/Huck Snyder", Cologne, Germany 1984 *University Art Museum Santa Barbara, “NeoYork", Santa Barbara, CA 1984 *Gallery Engstrum, "Twelve Women From New York", Stockholm, Sweden 1984 *Civilian Warfare Gallery, "Jane Bauman" solo exhibitions, NYC, NY 1984 & 1985 *American Graffiti Gallery, "The Best of the East Village", Amsterdam, Holland 1983 *White Columns, "Speed Trials", NYC, NY 1982

External links

Jane Bauman Website

References

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