West
Spotlight Artist
Kristin Bauer
West
Artist Statement
With a background in art and psychology, I pursue a long-form
aesthetic exploration of communication, intention, and collective
ideological movement. I visually explore semiotics and human
experience situated within the constructs of otherness and
the self. Delving into historical propaganda, marketing, and
psychological research that captures societal constructs of
influence, I move through a process of adopting and restructuring
word and image in creating installations, sculpture, and
paintings. My ultimate intention is to convey an essence and
weight, while stripping motive and abstracting persuasion.
All of my work incorporates plastics of some sort: synthetic
polymer pigments, cast acrylic plexiglass, and films are
activated for their conceptual properties of transparency,
and their relationship to sleek (shiny and sellable)
commodification. I frequently employ corporate signage and
marketing methods, materials, and manufacturing techniques
in my process in a further exploration and disruption of the
field of “Manufactured Consent.”
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