Jane Bauman is an American painter, sculptor, and academic. She has been a professor and Chair of the Visual and Performing Art Department at Coastline Community College in Newport Beach, California.^[1] As a working artist, she is very active in the Southern California art scene.^[2]

Early life and education

Bauman was born in Burbank, California and grew up in Los Angeles where surf culture, the 60’s hippie movement, psychedelic music and the Hollywood movie industry had a formative influence on her artistic development.^[3]

Career

Bauman received her Bachelor’s degree from Santa Clara University in 1973. She then enrolled at San Francisco Art Institute 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.^[4] 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.^[4] She created the cover for the Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine 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.^[1] From 2003 through 2013, she taught six Study Abroad Programs in Florence, Italy which had a big impact on her art.^[5]

Works

Bauman’s artworks are based on decay, quick application, and associations with outlaw graffiti and subcultures. In her paintings, she uses commercial spray paints for their bright colors.^[4] The distinguishing characteristic of her work is the sharp-edge of her stenciled images.^[6] She collaborated on several art projects with Mark C. (of Live Skull). 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 in 1986.^[7]

Her work was included by Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo in the Collins & Milazzo exhibition Natural Genre: From the Neutral Subject to the Hypothesis of World Objects in 1984 at the Florida State University Gallery and Museum.^[8] Also Bauman was a participant in the Pier 34 graffiti project that was documented by Andreas Sterzing in 1983/84.^[9] Her art is in public collections, including The Cooper-Hewitt, Museum of American Art,^[10] The Musee de Cloitre des Cordeliers,^[5] and The Thomas Armann Foundation.

Jack Johnston grouped her ceramics 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.^[11] Eric Minh Swenson has filmed her artworks in the form of a documentary describing Bauman’s different painting styles.^[12] 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 Los Angeles Times.”^[13]

External links

• Jane Bauman Website

References