Edith Baumann

Edith Baumann (b. 1948, Ames, IA) lives and works in Santa Monica, CA. Her paintings, inspired in great part by her love for jazz and her meditation practice, concisely balance precision with vulnerability, motion, and natural imperfection. Using hand-mulled raw pigment acrylic paints, Baumann applies thin layers of paint to canvas using small brushes in order to establish a ground of varying depth. “When painting, I move back and forth between the positive and negative space intuitively, changing the color – warmer, cooler, etc. One area of color informs the other area,” Baumann says.

Edith Baumann received a B.F.A. from University of California, Los Angeles in 1975 and an M.F.A. in painting at the University of Southern California in 1985. Baumann has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including Beatrix Wilhem Gallery (Stuttgart, DE), parrasch heijnen (Los Angeles, CA), and Newspace (Los Angeles, CA); and group exhibitions at Martos Gallery (New York, NY), McClain Gallery (Houston, TX), Hunter Dunbar (New York, NY), Bakersfield Museum of Art (Bakersfield, CA), Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, CA), and the Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University (Waco, TX).