The FloraBau paintings are grounded in landscape and desire. The themes of rain, desert and drought run through the work. The paintings envision submersion in life-giving water. Of rain, lightning and thunder fertilizing the earth with enormous beds of flowers springing up with vigor and numinous beauty - as well as drowning and flood. Many of these pieces are constructed on discarded commercial aluminum lithography plates with multiple layers of acrylic paint and printed photographs. The landscape of Joshua Tree National Park and Baroque Grotesques are direct inspirations.
29 Palms Storm, 2016
Asphalt Flora, 2015
Baroque Storm, 2016
Big Daisy Soak, 2016
Big Wet, 2016
Black Lightening, 2017
Blue Daisy, 2016
Blue Lightening, 2016
Coral Daisy, 2016
Daisy Fog, 2017
Deluge at 29 Palms, 2016
Dry Rain Joshua Tree, 2017
Fallen Flower, 2016
Daisy Drown, 2016
Fog in the Garden, 2018
Garden at Night, 2018
Heat Wave, 2018
Hello Daisy, 2017
Last Rain, 2016
Ophelia, 2016
Pink Soak, 2016
Poppy Visit, 2017
Rain of Daisies, 2016
Small Storm, 2018
Sweet Rain, 2018
The First Rain, 2018
Water Babies, 2015
Voodoo Daisy, 2016
This ongoing series of works on paper began in 2018 using 140 lb Arches watercolor paper to catch overspray from a Brooklyn Art Library Sketchbook project - the remains of the day - and then they took on a life of their own. “Studio detritus and art-making remnants have always interested me. They have a freshness and unexpected quality to them.”
Acrylic and fluorescent spray paint on paper, 22 x 30” 2018 - 2019
This ongoing body of work began in 2011 and had it’s origins in the artist’s childhood fascination with the monster/goddess Mothra from the Godzilla movie franchise. Mothra was the first female Kaiju and has a benevolent nature. Although she did lay waste to Tokyo, it was to rescue her people! Rather than focusing on Mothra’s heroic mayhem these quite abstract pieces are about her personal life: her imagined romances, looking for love, first kiss, and cruising the scenery.
This series is composed of pieces made with a variety of different media from oil and enamel paint on aluminum to photographic prints overlaid with painted translucent vellum.
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This body of work seeks to illuminate Dante’s Divine Comedy rather than illustrate. It’s formatted as a handmade artist’s book consisting of 19 x 24” photographs overlaid with painted Rorschach images. Many of the photographs were taken in Florence, Italy - Dante’s home.
A series of Rorschach paintings made in a manuscript format, as if they were pages in a book. Apophenia is defined as the “perception of connections and meaningfullness between unrelated phenomena and random things.”
Each page: 19 x 24”, enamel paint on translucent vellum, 2016
Jane Bauman moved to NYC after graduate school and spent most of the 1980’s living in the East Village where she was represented by Civilian Warfare Gallery. Repurposing found materials such as discarded commercial lithography plates and throwaway vinyl records was an essential part of her aesthetic.
