by Seth Bauserman
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In *Power Lines No. 4*, graphite lines and paint marks cross the surface with an unapologetic directness; nothing appears tidied away or corrected. Dark, angular power lines anchor the lower field, while longer horizontal strokes and passages of blue and ochre sweep across the composition like land, sky and changing weather. Working with transparent layers of Kitakata paper, Seth Bauserman allows fainter marks to remain visible beneath the surface. Drawn partly from his daughters’ artwork, their spontaneity is preserved within a landscape that feels both immediate and carefully held in balance.
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Seth Bauserman (b. 1989) makes paintings that look like they’ve survived something—scraped, taped, sanded, bruised sheets of paper that have been pushed to their material limits. The layers build and gather only to be peeled back again, leaving marks, hints, and faint impressions of decisions underneath. In his work, these layers of paper become something more than a surface for marks. They are characters: vulnerable, stubborn, sometimes barely holding it together.
Bauserman’s practice explores the delicate experiences of identity and memory. Each piece is treated as a site where clarity and confusion share equal weight. His compositions hold tension rather than resolve it, inviting viewers to sit inside the messy human process of revealing and obscuring oneself.
In “Four of Us”, four loosely defined presences gather across a field of graphite lines, translucent colour and dense passages of paint. Each has its own weight and character, yet overlapping marks bind them within a shared, unsettled space. The title invites a reading of the work as an abstract family portrait, drawing on Seth Bauserman’s use of imagery from his young daughters’ artwork. Layers of Kitakata paper leave earlier gestures visible beneath the surface, so that the work’s apparent spontaneity carries a sense of time, inheritance and relationships still in the making.
Spirit of the River 3 transforms fragments drawn from the artist’s young daughters’ artwork into a layered meditation on innocence, memory and familial identity. Bold fields of red, green and ochre hover above long graphite lines, while smaller gestures and traces remain visible beneath the surface. Working with translucent Kitakata paper, paint and pastel, Seth Bauserman allows different moments and generations to occupy the same image. Its buoyant colour carries a quieter reflection on how childhood imagery is preserved and transformed through an adult’s experience.
New Pastures #5 is part of Seth Bauserman’s ongoing series drawing on images taken from the artwork of his young daughters. Working with acrylic paint and pastel on transparent Kitakata paper over wood panel, Bauserman layers and abstracts these source images to explore innocence, memory, time, and familial identity across generations.
Guttural Prayer / OH GOD layers graphic text over an acrylic form drawn from a sketchbook page by Seth Bauserman’s two-year-old daughter. Made with transparent glassine and mulberry paper, the work uses layering to bring ideas of childhood innocence, memory, mortality and familial identity into tension with a distinctly adult perspective.