Seth Bauserman’s pieces are more question than statement. Each work is a series of layers that hide and obscure, blend and conflict—each mimicking in color, texture, and form the process by which people come to understand or remain blind to the truth about themselves. They are portraits of taking on and stripping away, of presentation and concealment.
His works begin as layers of individual marks made upon paper. Each layer is then shaped and reshaped to conceal, emphasize, or transform the individual marks. Each is a record of presence and absence; forms made of simple strokes and their own negations.
A socio-political moment fraught with caricatures of groups and carelessness with words demands a visual idiom of careful perception and focused intention. These works invite introspection and instead of reaction—a visual space to consider the complex and layered nature of identity as a remedy to the flattening and simplifying of identity politics
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EXHIBITIONS
2024
Care Less | Solo Exhibition
Quirk Gallery, Charlottesville VA
2024
EVERYTHING | Solo Exhibition
Pamplemousse Gallery, Richmond VA
2022
Still Life/Life Still | Solo Exhibition
Quirk Gallery, Richmond VA
2020
People Aren’t One Thing | Solo Exhibition
Quirk Gallery, Charlottesville VA
2019
DITA10 | Group Exhibition
Duke University, Durham NC
2019
It's All One Big Holiness | Solo Exhibition
Sometimes Gallery, Richmond VA
2019
It Either Is Or It Isn’t | Solo Exhibition
Quirk Gallery, Richmond VA
2018
What Remains | Solo Exhibition
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
2017
Virginia Museum of Fines Arts Fellowship Exhibition |
Group Exhibition | Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA
2016
Ken Szmagaj & Seth Bauserman | Joint Exhibition
82 S Main St, Harrisonburg, VA
EDUCATION
BFA , Studio Art, Painting & Drawing Concentration
James Madison University
COLLECTIONS
Works held in private and corporate collections internationally.
HONORS & RECOGNITION
2018
Artist in Residence | Studio Two Three, Richmond VA
2017
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship