Mike Bauer

Begin with the fact that a handwriting is a painting, and a painting is held by something-a frame; a room, a city square, a starry sky, these are all frames. Recognize this fact and live with this humble fact. Marks evolve or erode, become signs: things in art – figures – people, clouds, the action of drawing – they are content, and content reflects the main gesture on the board, reflects what you do. Reflects the first stroke and how you did it.
Without audience support, the emblems would fall off the boards …… Distractions, many spots and noises in the atmosphere surround what we feel and see – we are in a bowl of motion. I scrape down, like a miner opening a vein: somewhere, on the painting, is another painting. This is what the artist must find in the painting. To work, to create art, which is unpredictable.
Oil paint, powdered pigments, vinyl tape, plastic coated particle board (melamine board).
James Michael Bauer Born June 24, 1946, Salt Lake City, Utah.

B.A. in Art History and M.A. in Art from Humboldt State University.
Collection J. Paul Getty Museum
Collection Paul F. Walters

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