Jane Bauman is an American

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

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

Newport Beach, California Newport Beach is a coastal city in South Orange County, California. Newport Beach is known for swimming and sandy beaches. Newport Harbor once supported maritime industries however today, it is used mostly for recreation. Balboa Island, Newport ...

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

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art scene.

Early life and education

Bauman was born in

Burbank, California Burbank is a city in the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located northwest of downtown Los Angeles, Burbank has a population of 107,337. The city was named after David Burbank, w ...

and grew up in

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where surf culture, 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 LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, mescaline, and cannabis to ...

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

Career

Bauman received her Bachelor’s degree from

Santa Clara University Santa Clara University is a private Jesuit university in Santa Clara, California. Established in 1851, Santa Clara University is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California. The university's campus surrounds the historic Mis ...

in 1973. She then enrolled at

San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a private 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 Mississippi River. Approximately ...

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 interest in the punk/ no wave 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

Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine Launched from the Lower East Side, Manhattan in 1983 as a subscription only bimonthly publication, the ''Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine'' utilized the audio cassette medium to distribute no wave downtown music and audio art and was in activity ...

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

spray paint Aerosol paint (commonly spray paint) is paint that comes in a sealed, pressurized container and is released in an aerosol spray when a valve button is depressed. Aerosol painting is one form of spray painting; it leaves a smooth, even coat, unli ...

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

stencil Stencilling produces an image or pattern on a surface, by applying pigment to a surface through an intermediate object, with designed holes in the intermediate object, to create a pattern or image on a surface, by allowing the pigment to reach ...

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

Live Skull Live Skull is a post-punk/experimental rock band from New York City, formed in 1982. In an overview of their abrasive no wave-influenced music, ''Trouser Press'' said, "As part of the same New York avant-noisy scene that spawned Sonic Youth, Lyd ...

). 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 Civilian Warfare Gallery was an art gallery located in New York City's East Village in the early 1980's and was one of the founding galleries of the East Village art movement. Founded by artists Alan Barrows and Dean Savard, the gallery helped launc ...

in 1986. Her work was included by

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and

Richard Milazzo Richard Milazzo is a critic, curator, publisher, independent scholar and poet from New York City. In the 1970s, he was the editor and co-publisher of ''Out of London Press''. He is the co-founding publisher and editor of Edgewise Press. In the 198 ...

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 has 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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bauman, Jane Living people 20th-century American women artists 21st-century American women artists American women painters American women sculptors Artists from California People from Burbank, California Santa Clara University alumni San Francisco Art Institute alumni Year of birth missing (living people)