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!.
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]
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]
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
^ abRoth, Madeline (23 January 2012). "Jane Bauman". Escalette Permanent Collection of Art at Chapman University. Chapman University. Archived from the original on 6 June 2024. Retrieved 23 July 2024.