Caryn Baumgartner

Caryn Baumgartner is an artist living and working in southern California. Her work is primarily abstract figurative and concerned with exploring time and journey through line, form and narrative.
Her subject matter draws upon imagination, dreams and the natural world. She employs a variety of mediums, including oil, wax and charcoal in her work. She is very interested in surface quality and frequently layers, scrapes, carves, draws, and wipes away until the piece resolves itself. Often times her pieces take on many forms through that process–both human and animal–before eventually resolving into their final state;

a fallen bird becomes a boy, a child dissolves into a fawn, a bear makes way for a stag. a portrait turns in upon itself, or simply fades back into canvas.

Ultimately, the abstracting of image and form over time reveal traces of these explorations woven throughout the final piece.

2017
The Art of the Figure Workshop - David Limrite / Atascadero, CA

2007-2008
The Kline Academy of Fine Art / Los Angeles, CA

2000-2006
Art Center College - Figurative and Fine Art Studies / Pasadena, CA

solo

2018
Michael Stearns Studio at The Loft - "pulling in.letting go" San Pedro, CA

2008
TAG Gallery "evidence of being" Santa Monica, CA

2007
Thor Gallery "New Works on Canvas and Paper" Long Beach, CA

2000
Plum's "Works on Canvas" Costa Mesa, CA

1990
Alta Coffee House "Figurative Works on Canvas", Costa Mesa, CA

group

2018
Long Beach Open Studio Tour / Long Beach, CA

2017
Mid-City Studio Tour / Long Beach, CA

2015
Greenly Art Space "Blue" / Long Beach, CA

2015
Mid-City Studio Tour / Long Beach, CA

2014
Greenly Art Space "Relative Aperature'" / Long Beach, CA

2014
Long Beach Open Studio Tour / Long Beach, CA

2010
Alicia Blue Gallery "I Dream Animal" / Portland, OR

2009
Mid-City Studio Tour / Long Beach, CA

2009
Utopia Mid-City Artists / Long Beach, CA

2008
TAG Gallery "Small Works" / Santa Monica, CA

2007
Gallery 33 East / Long Beach, CA

2006
The Alcove Gallery, Art Center "Seventy5 Feet" / Pasadena, CA

1998
Bistango "Color Mosaic" / Irvine, CA

1992
Soho International "Currents" / Irvine, CA


publications

2009
100 Artists of the West Coast II by Tina Skinner, Schiffer Publications