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Alameda, CA
Jim Bauer
1954-
Found material
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Jim Bauer is a self-taught artist who lives in Northern California. His robot-like sculptures are made from kitchen items and hardware including coffee pots, irons and sprinkler heads. They often include electric lights that shine through colored lenses, and there is at least one that has a working telephone in its chest cavity. Bauer haunts flea markets, thrift stores and recycling depots in search of aluminum detritus. Discovering the occasional hardware store close-out sale is ecstasy. A former teapot and kettle salesman, Bauer is prone to reciting the model numbers and dates of the component parts of his creatures. He has also been an auto mechanic, and a researcher at Kaiser Aluminum.
The Ames Gallery
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The Ames Gallery
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Bibliography:
"Contemporary American Folk Art - A Collector's Guide" Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Abbeville Press, 1996.
"Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art—A guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources" by Betty-Carol Sellen with Cynthia J. Johnson, 2000.
"American Self-Taught Art: An Illustrated Analysis of 20th Century Artists and Trends with 1,319 Capsule Biographies" by Florence Laffal and Julius Laffal, 2003. |
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