Jane Bauman

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. As a working artist, she is very active in the Southern California art scene.

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.

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. She also took an 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.

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. 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.

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. 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, Eric Minh Swenson 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 Los Angeles Times.

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