Nadege Monchera Baer

Nadege Monchera Baer's figurative art ranges from charged portraits to more conceptually tinged psychological studies hinting at internal or conflictive socio-sexual issues such as innocence and deference. Though not referenced in the titles, many of the artworks are images and self-portraits sourced from actual family photos. With her roots established in abstract painting, she continues a sort of bifurcated exploration of complimentary and overlapping concerns as well in non-objective imagery, via numerous artworks that are chiefly defined by an emphasis on connections, repetition, atmospherics, emotion and most importantly, color itself as expressive mirrors of an internal undefined landscape. Whether it be large canvases or "hatchings" on mylar, her methodology is to work on multiple canvases simultaneously working various styles of abstraction in series. Chronologically the completion of these artworks may jump and skip over one another, yet in overview, they are fairly easy to group together via size and media. The more conceptual work also develops in series but often that is only recognized in hindsight as various ideas rise and submerge. For example, though the exteriors vary greatly, the path from the Woman's Large Head d...

-Ecole des Beaux-Arts et Arts Appliques, Moulins, France
-Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris France.
Laureat du prix "Villa Medicis Hors les Murs" Berlin, Germany 1993.

Selected Solo Exhibitions and Commissions:

2012 “Corporal Edges”, Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery, Nassau College, Garden City, NY
2009-10 Untitled, private commission, Los Angeles, CA
2007 “Boy and Roses”, private commission, Los Angeles, CA
2003-7 “The Ceramic Painting Project”, private commission, Los Angeles, CA
2006 “Paintings in the Round”, Walt Disney Concert Hall Store, Los Angeles, CA
2002-4 “The Copper Room, Malevich Redux” Sunset Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
2001 “Louie, Louie” Storage Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Traffic”. Coppos Films, Los Angeles, CA
2000 “Nadege Monchera”, Paramount Picture Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Espace Goyannes, Paris, France
1989 Espace Herman Miller, CNIT, La Defense, Paris, France

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2014 "Mas Attack7" Santa Monica Hangar, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
2014 " Drafpunk2" the midtokyo gallery, Tokyo, Yokohama Triennial, Japan.
2014 "Draftpunk" Autonomie gallery, los Angeles, CA, USA
2014 The Kamikaze Show, PØST gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2014 "Many" Vast Space ProJects, Las Vegas, NV, USA
2014 "MAS VEGAS" Vast Space Projects, Las Vegas, NV, USA
2014 "Emergent Forms" C.Feign Jr.Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2014 Mas Attack, Vast Spa...