NAME: Brandon Bauer
BIRTH PLACE: Wisconsin
BIOGRAPHY
Brandon Bauer is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His work focuses on intersections and hybrid processes within the disciplines of painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, and video all with a strong collage element and topical subject. His work explores the relationship between image, abstraction, and text. Brandon’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries, museums, alternative art spaces, and screened in new media festivals. In January of 2004 Brandon’s work was included in the “Art Against War” exhibition at the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India. Brandon’s video work has been screened in the Aces(s) electronic media festival in Pau, France, The European Media Arts Festival in Osnabruck, Germany, and at Project 101 in Paris among several other national and international venues. Brandon’s work has been produced in DVD editions, used as illustration for various editorial publications and books, and has been published in poster editions.
Brandon co-edited the book Peace Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated, published in two editions and released in 2004. Gustavo Gili of Barcelona Spain published the Spanish language edition, and Edition Olms based in Zurich Switzerland published an English, French, and German language edition. A DVD of Brandon’s early experimental video titled Signaldrift: a day under the city was released by the Paris based video label Lowave in 2003.
Brandon is a Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) alumnus who received his BFA in painting in 1996. Brandon is currently pursuing a Master's degree from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee with an intermedia focus.
