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

EDUCATION

BFA , Studio Art, Painting & Drawing Concentration
James Madison University

EXHIBITIONS

2024

Care Less | Solo Exhibition
Quirk Gallery, Charlottesville VA

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

It's All One Big Holiness | Solo Exhibition
Sometimes Gallery, Richmond VA

Fellowship Exhibition | 
Group Exhibition | Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA

2016

Ken Szmagaj & Seth Bauserman | Joint Exhibition
82 S Main St, Harrisonburg, VA

Pushing Up Daisies

Let Them Lead the Way