Born in New York, Diann Bauer currently lives and works in London and Berlin. Her large-scale paintings and drawings perform like installations, often altering the architecture of the spaces in which they are presented, while forcing viewers to move around these spaces in order to explore the works' intricate detailing. Bauer historically has spliced together imagery drawn from sources as diverse as Rubens paintings, Japanese prints, carnival caravans and contemporary architectural drawings. The work has consistently addressed violence and power and has more recently become more overtly political. The current work continues to be visually complex though is using text and more iconographic imagery. The content of the text ranges from historical and contemporary political slogans to apocryphal advice from both far right and far left websites. The work is research into where the ideology of both left and right may or may not overlap. The images continue to be complex visual puzzles twisting and layering politics as they twist and layer imagery.
