Chuck Bauer

Though as a child I was always interested in art my real journey began the first day of undergraduate school when I had an auditory hallucination telling me to become an art major.

As part of earning my BFA in 1969 I spent a year in New York City at the first annual Whitney Museum Independent Study Program which still exists. I earned my MA in painting at UW, Madison in 1970.

I have been painting all my life, much of it en plein air long before the current explosion of interest, and when portable materials were still somewhat novel.

I have never stopped taking workshops, and mentoring, and sometimes formally instructing, others.

My vision for my art is to leave something behind that will remain interesting to others, and toward that end I hope my work will always embody an expressive and emotional content.

At the moment I am interested in the emotion that might be called domestic nostalgia. As I enter the middle of my eighth decade I hope to continue growing as an artist, technically of course, but also creatively, expressively, and compassionately.