Bjorn Bauer Paintings

Humans have an intense desire to belong, to find something or someone to stick to. This painting continues an exploration of both organic and digitally influenced shapes and textures...

What if we could gather up all of these digital spaces that absorb our attention and blow them to oblivion? Would we be able to go back to the way we were before? If we chose to rebu...

"Eye" features thick pools of clear, black and white acrylic with embedded metallic slivers and tiny plastic beads to enhance the texture, along with geometric planes of translucent ...

"Screen Smash" consists of several paintings layered on top of each other. For me to feel like a painting is complete it has to convince me somehow that I can't improve it. The top l...

We each have a voice, and separately we can't do much with it, but the more we join the chorus of people crying out for a better world the sooner we will see it. The process can be c...

This painting features a thick ground layer of translucent and opaque acrylics, suggesting a surreal aerial perspective. The hazy red shape creates a dramatic lens through which to view the work. The painting is open to interpretation, but I find that it draws me...

There will always be those things in life that are well beyond my control. :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by th...

How is everything held together? The intricacies and dynamic interactions of molecular structures function in and around us, offering a timeless mystery to ponder. Paint as a materia...

This painting brings to mind the experience of using a digitally simulated paintbrush and the experience of trying to make a precise mark but creating a blown out mess because the se...

More and more of our communication passes through digital conduits, and this progress is an amazing accomplishment, but it reaffirms the preciousness of human interaction in physical...

There is beauty in distortion. Look no further than what artists create in world of electronic music. Noise can be sculpted into monumental forms. Electrical currents can be pushed i...

It’s amazing to witness how far our innovations can go, but at what cost do we keep pushing forward? Who gets cut out in the process? We have to remember that the heartbeat drivi...

Digital interfaces have a profound impact on our perspective, but even when they are used to skew what we perceive in a certain direction, the truth does not bend. My hope is that we...

Life flourishes in the unexpected. This painting ships with a signed certificate of authenticity. :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of a...

The strange logic of this painting reminds me of my own dreams, which are often beautifully nonsensical. :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificat...

I created this piece as an experiment to see if I could place a transparent layer of intense color over a heavily textured painting. As it turns out the experiment worked, and this p...

A richly textured mass of blues and grays flecked with vivid color bursts from behind a possibly computer generated red shape. This image feels alien, but also serene. :: Painting ::...

"No Hiding" features a dynamic swirl of warm black and white acrylic, with two panes of hazy sky blue appearing to hover over the textured mass. I find that the juxtaposition of thes...

"Silt" packs a lot of texture into a small frame. I had been painting with a lot of very vivid colors, and for this piece I wanted to tone the saturation down, while still having col...

There is an intensity to this piece inspired by our current climate of societal change. Most of us recognize the way structures oppress members of our human family, particularly peop...

The blue-green shadows against the vivid red were inspired by a strange effect observed on a digital television screen. That created a very saturated world, which is confronted with ...

The ambition, imagination, and wonder behind science fiction writing are fascinating, and nothing is more haunting than the cold, unending depths of outer space. This painting sugges...

The blue-green shadows against the vivid red were inspired by a strange effect observed on a digital television screen. That created a very saturated world, which is confronted with ...

This painting is about fleeting moments that are often not appreciated until later. The colors and textures suggest a waterpark, a place where families come to have fun, but who know...

There is a palpable sense of relief permeating this painting. Life courses through the background, never ceasing to hope, and the constricting structures in front of it are dissolvin...

Humans have an intense desire to belong, to find something or someone to stick to. This painting continues an exploration of both organic and digitally influenced shapes and textures...

Biological life has a vibrant inner world to explore. In the same way, our collective character reveals a deeper story when we move past the superficial. These worlds beneath the sur...