Christian Bach

Born: Every day. (Los Angeles, CA)
Lives and works in Los Angeles

Education: UCLA / Art Center Pasadena

Group exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York , Germany and Italy.

A number of one-woman gallery shows in Los Angeles. I've also had a number of smaller corporate commissions and private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

Since 1999 yearly visits of several weeks to the European Art Academy in Trier, Germany.

 

Artist Statement

"I like to work with perception, working in a way that uses the semi conscious part of your mind to paint with. It's a whole other type of consciousness. A painting consciousness you couldn't handle with words. It gives me a sense of incredible contact with myself. That was the thing I could hold onto, that's what helped me to become a painter. I used to paint portraits but I felt too confined by realism. I've always loved the abstract genre. The internal contact with abstract was so strong that I just followed it. I think that the reality I make is as real as anything else. My paintings and style have now fleshed out into full abstraction, dealing with personal issues pertaining to us all. I believe the viewer can extract a limitless amount of varied meanings and interpretations from my work, and that is the power of art. I believe it requires not only the artist but also the viewer to reach its full message. Sometimes my paintings incorporate all the angst of youth enduring oppression from being brought up with a " Children should be seen and not heard" philosophy and boarding school. I have always possessed a fiercely independent temperament, I like to challenge tradition, I paint continuously, I don't allow intimidation and I'm a born storyteller. My art is influenced by Man Ray, Klee, Van Gogh, Wagner, Dumas and Dore among others. It all boils down to, I paint pictures that I would like to see."

C.B.