Artist Biography
Jonathan Bauch’s body of work spans forty years. His early oil paintings evolved into aluminum and wire mesh constructed graphic shapes with kinetic lights. The current work features raw welded expressive free shapes in steel. He was artist in residence in welded sculpture during 2004-2005 in a program funded by the Abrons Art Center. He was guest curator, and exhibitor for Space in movement / Movement in space, presented at Westbeth Gallery (April 2004) a group exhibition, in which the seven sculptors and four painters investigated and created motion in the space of their work. Mr. Bauch was born in Brooklyn N Y, graduated of Parsons School of Design in1961, and studied painting at NYU, the School of Visual Arts, and sculpture at the Educational Alliance. A solo exhibition of his recent sculpture and drawings will be held at the Westbeth gallery in September 23—October 14, 2007. Mr. Bauch has exhibited
in the NY metro area and New England—some of his one-person shows
of sculpture include exhibitions at The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Conn.;
The Becket Art Center, Becket, Ma; Mari Galleries, Mamaroneck, NY; Westbeth
Gallery, NYC. Dona Meilach comments
on his early work—“Screen wire mesh, woven from a hard wire,
still retains a softness and is worked into an illusion of undulating
moire pat-terns by Jonathan Bauch, accompanied by and accomplished with
colored lights.” —SOFT SCULPTURE, Crown Publishers Artist’s
Statement: I draw inspiration
from the forms in nature as well as the physical properties of the metal
itself. Further forms are enriched by fusion during welding. As I shape
the pieces, each is transformed until it is an organic abstraction. The
resulting sculpture is the outcome of these actions and an emotional record
of the moment. |