{"id":101,"date":"2013-08-01T14:21:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T12:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bauersfeld.cz\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2026-07-30T23:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:25:32","slug":"kip-art","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bauersfeld.cz\/?page_id=101","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artist’s Statement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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It is a question of possibilities<\/span><\/p>\n

The Light of Transformation \u2013 Letn\u00e1 park series 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

My work embodies extrapolations of self as an outsider and the need to transform the literal, figurative world around me into something beyond the banality of a tormented existence. Form out of context isolates, individuates, and evokes a world of new intellectual and aesthetic possibilities. The juxtaposition of colour in landscape steps beyond the chains of a bleak and mundane life, unlocking a vast array of emotions existing beyond the immediacy of one\u2019s circumstances, leading the viewer into a new and more vibrant world of meaning and beauty.<\/p>\n

I paint in series because life is a flow. You can add the rest.<\/p>\n

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Questions of meaning, context, possible narrative, sign, symbol, time and history resonate in the relationship between multiples of passing and becoming. Instinctively there is a need for clarity, familiarity and certainty. Yet the closer I come, the more I discover opacity, enigma and elusiveness. Inside the paradox, there is beauty, juxtapositions of the paradox, a tilt this way or that in passing, reveal fragments of the aesthetic. The contradictions are wonderful, there is no center, the center can not hold.<\/span><\/p>\n

Affirmation is abundant. One needs merely look.<\/span><\/p>\n

Artist\u2019s Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the four decades since first painting in oil on canvas in a studio in California, Kip Bauersfeld [B. 1967 \u2013 Washington D.C.] is best known for his works involving a colorful, vibrant, albeit idiosyncratic, juxtaposition of space and human form. Fascinated by ideas of dislocation, separation and the impossibility of belonging, Kip\u2019s work draws on a host of deeply personal experiences of alienation and the constant struggle to cling to ephemeral notions of love and beauty in an over-mediated and hyperbolic world. Inspired by the Czech Underground and the various stances taken by artists as divergent as the poets Ivan Martin Jirous (\u201cMagor\u201d), and Pavel Zaicek, and painters such as Lucien Freud, Gerhard Richter, Neo Rauch and movements including Situationism<\/em> and Stuckism<\/em>, Kip\u2019s work at once reflects the conflict between the aesthetics of an artistic tradition he is forced to view from the outside, his desperate need to belong and the all-pervasive, mind-numbing banality of life in today\u2019s global village.<\/p>\n

Commercial commissions and group show invitations accepted – contact kip.bauersfeld@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n

Solo Exhibitions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2026<\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic, 16 July – 28 August “The Light of Transformation”,<\/em> Cafe Ubuntu pod Lipami<\/a>, Prague 7<\/p>\n

2025<\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic, 29 May – 27 June “Once Upon a Time – Prague Sprig 2025 – Hope and Hopelessness”<\/em>, Salon – Koncept Letna, Prague 7<\/p>\n

2018<\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic. January 19 – March 2. “Just Breathe<\/a>“<\/em>, StellArt Gallery<\/a>, Prague 8<\/p>\n

See photos of the opening here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2016<\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic. April 1 – May 13. “ARR (All Rights Reserved)”<\/em>, Kyklop<\/a>, Prague 7<\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic. May 13. “Umeni na ulice”<\/em>, Korunovacni, Praha 7<\/p>\n

2015<\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic. May – present. “Signs”<\/em>, \u00a0Vegtral Restaurance Bar<\/a>, Prague 7<\/p>\n

2014<\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic. December 11- January 14. “Letna Paintings”<\/em>, The Farm<\/a>, Prague 7<\/p>\n

2013<\/span><\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic. March 1 – May 1. “An Opening of Sorts”<\/em>, Vegtral Restaurance Bar<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic. September 23 – present. “Smoking Section”,<\/em>\u00a0Vegtral Restaurance Bar<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic. October – present. “Eclectic Eccentric”,<\/em> Galerie Chez Gerd<\/span><\/p>\n

2012<\/span><\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic. May 1 – January 5, 2015. “Conference Rooms”<\/em>, Balcar Polansky Eversheds law offices<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

2011<\/span><\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic. June 10. “Stavka!-Strike”<\/em>, Letna<\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic. February. “Vote Bunny”<\/em>, Letna, Holesovice<\/span><\/p>\n

2008<\/span><\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic. January 12- March 15. “Speculum Speculorum – Contemporary Figurative Painting,”<\/em> CzechInn Cafe<\/a>, Vinohrady<\/span><\/p>\n

2007<\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic. January 10 – February 10. “Passage – between Passings and Becomings,”<\/em> Kavovarna Galerie<\/a>, Pasaz Lucerna<\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic. May 3 – August 20. “Capture Witheld,” <\/em>Ouky Douky Cafe<\/a>, Holesovice<\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic. May 31- June 15. “The Raw and the Cooked,”<\/em> Kavovarna Galerie<\/a>, Pasaz Lucerna<\/p>\n

Group shows<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2025<\/p>\n

Prague, Czceh Republic, June 15 – July 15, “Once Upon a Time<\/em>‘,\u00a0Salon Koncept Letna<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

2023<\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic. March 2 – April 4. “Prodejni vystava del,” Salon Koncept Letna<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

See photos of the opening\u00a0here. (scroll right)<\/a><\/p>\n

2022<\/p>\n

Athens, Greece. “COV-ART Project,”<\/em> Copelouzos Family Art Museum.<\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic. Opening –\u00a0 Salon Koncept Letna<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

2011<\/span><\/p>\n

London, UK. April 19 – May 2. “The Enemies of Art”<\/em>. Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

2010<\/span><\/p>\n

Prague, Czech Republic. September 16 – October 7. “Where’s Your Sense of Humor?”<\/em> The Globe Bookstore and Cafe<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Commercial Commissions\/Private Commissions<\/strong><\/p>\n

2026, Private residence, Los Angeles, California<\/p>\n

2023<\/p>\n

CIUR a.s. – Pra\u017esk\u00e1 1012, 250 01, Brand\u00fds nad Labem – the bastards never paid!<\/p>\n

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Publications<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Superseding, A Prague Nocturne, <\/em><\/span><\/a>by Kip Bauersfeld, Vote Bunny Press, Prague 2012<\/span><\/p>\n

The Enemies of Art<\/em><\/span><\/a>, by Charles Thomson, Robert Janas and Edward Lucie-Smith, Victoria Press, London 2011<\/span><\/p>\n

The International Dictionary of Artists<\/em><\/span><\/a>, World Wide Art Books, Santa Barbara, California, 2011<\/span><\/p>\n

The Return of Kral Majales, Prague’s International Literary Renaissance 1990-2010 An Anthology<\/em><\/span><\/a>, edited by Louis Armand, Litteria Pragensia Books, Prague 2010<\/span><\/p>\n

Stuckism International<\/span><\/a>,<\/em> by Robert Janas, Victoria Press<\/a>, London, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n

Seeing Artist Kip Bauersfeld,<\/em> by Leigh Hughes, Edifice Wrecked, Los Angles 2006<\/span><\/p>\n

O cem sni muzi<\/em><\/span><\/a>, by Olga Sommerova, Nakladatelstvi Slavka Kopecka, Prague 2005<\/span><\/p>\n

Franz Kafka, Contemplation & Other Stories<\/em><\/span><\/a>, Translated by Kevin Blahut, Twisted Spoon Press, Prague 1992<\/span><\/p>\n

COV-ART Project, Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, 2022<\/p>\n

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