My recent works are exercises in ordering chaos through the regularity of striping or grids in combination with gestural painting. The vulnerable and authentic expressive marks are still present but overlaid with logical iterations. Color is still dominant but held in check. The focus is sometimes on the clarity of black and white.  Both the conscious and the subconscious are demonstrably present. 

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I have brought the focus present in my dream journals to my painting and drawing, moving back and forth at the intersection of the sleeping and waking mind.

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Barbara Bachner