DIANN BAUER

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Diann Bauer’s Field of work lies somewhere between painting and installation. She does large-scale sight specific paintings working either directly with the given architecture of the gallery or altering the architecture itself to both manipulate the viewing of the painting as well and using space and architecture itself to impact the viewer. The paintings are replete with detail using violent images form a number of cultures and integrates diverse visual styles and techniques. An excess of visual information in Bauer’s work generates a sense of confusion and dissolution between space, object and subject, and leaves us trying to decipher a narrative that seems graspable, but is just out of reach. Sourcing material and influence from nineteenth century Japanese woodcuts, European Baroque painting, experimental contemporary architecture and spectacular elements of cinema Bauer situates the viewer within a swirling visually complex representation of space, time and movement.

Solo Exhibitions

2006        Bludgeonerator, The Showroom, London.
2005        Scramble and Dissolve, Fine Art University of Hanoi, Vietnam
2004        Meijius, Vamialis, Athens
2003        Uchi Jini No Uchi, One in the Other, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006
      A Tale of Two Cities : Busan-Seoul/Seoul-Busan, Busan Biennale, Korea
      Metropolis Rise: New Art from London,798 Space, Beijing.
      8x8x8 LON/MSP/NYC Minneapolis, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis
      If it didn’t exist, you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history, The Showroom, London
2005
      The Body. The Ruin, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Aus.
      The Future Lasts a Long Time, Le Consortium, Dijon
      Turn to the Left, Artist Fashion Show, 291 Gallery, London.
      Go Beween, Kunstverein, Bregenz.
      Expanded Painting, Prague Biennale 2, Prague
2004
      Kingdom, The Market Gallery, Glasgow
      Caution: Uneven Surfaces, temporarycontemporary, London
      The Drawing Project, Vamiali's, Athens
      New British Painting, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
      Gewalt, Loushy Art and Editions, Tel Aviv        
2003
      Wheeling, Cell Projects,London        
      Matchine Matchine,One in the Other (outside), London
      15/1(2), 1,000,000 mph, London
2002
      The Show, INSA Art Centre, Seoul
      Across the Pond, The Practice Space, Los Angeles
2001
      Saatchi Bursaries 1999-2001, Saatchi Gallery, 30 Underwood St London
      Molotov, Dilston Grove, London
2000
      Front, bilis 2000, 4 Garden Walk, London
      Mole Tits, The Cool Mall, Brooklyn, New York
1999
      Coffee and TV, Vilma Gold Gallery, London
      MA Degree Show, Goldsmiths College, London
1997      Sick Shit, CBGB Gallery, New York
1995      City Folk, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
      Questa Carne non e Fresca, Alleged Gallery, New York
1994        
      Pathetic Masterworks, Alleged Gallery, New York
1993       Young Sleek and Full of Hell, Alleged Gallery, New York

Education
1998-99 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London
1990-94 BA Fine Art, Cooper Union, New York