Marlene Bauer

Marlene Bauer’s paintings combine precisely arranged color with elusive sketches from the artist’s observations, creating an enigmatic language of unique experience and inhabited space. More akin to poetic expression than visual representation, Bauer’s synesthetic works are both intensely personal and evocatively accessible—an alternative language that is instinctive but unspoken. Revealing the complex relationship between individual experience and artistic creation, Bauer’s paintings recall the desire for an intuitive and unconstrained interaction with one’s surroundings. Meaningful but freely defined, image fragments coalesce into a cohesive entity, as individual words create the space and substance of a poem.