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    Lawrence Schaedler-Bahrs focuses on abstraction and creating emotionally evocative artwork through painting and drawing. They utilize monochrome palettes to depict surreal dream-like states and focus on line work and portraiture. Their goal is to elicit an emotional response from viewers through their art before any rational analysis or interpretation takes place.

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    Lawrence Schaedler-Bahrs focuses on abstraction and creating emotionally evocative artwork through painting and drawing. They utilize monochrome palettes to depict surreal dream-like states and focus on line work and portraiture. Their goal is to elicit an emotional response from viewers through their art before any rational analysis or interpretation takes place.

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    Lawrence Schaedler-Bahrs: Artist Statement

    Art making has always been a very internal and meditative experience,

    which allows me to reflect on myself concerning identity and my inner

    emotions. Utilizing both the disciplines of painting and drawing, I am able to

    conjure up imagery that lingers within my psyche as well as beyond. Utilizing

    said mediums I have been able to create a very introspective and reflective

    quality within my works. I tend to focus on depictions in monochrome

    because of the severe dichotomies within the palette. It creates a

    wonderfully stark contrast and conflict. My main mediums are acrylic paint,

    ink, and charcoal because they allow for a very smooth and rapid application

    while also being relatively forgiving when it comes to layering. Many look at

    my art and assume that it reflects some very deep and distant turmoil.

    However, this is totally not the case. I choose this palette of monochrome

    due to its underlying and subtle complexities. Such a basic palate can bring

    about such a visual impact as well as bring forth intense emotion.

    My primary focus has always been on abstraction, which is the concept

    of delineating from traditional art norms. In this abstraction, I like to focus on

    line work and portraiture utilizing both mediums of drawing and painting. My

    works tend to have a very overarching ideal of surrealistic, dream like states

    and because of this, I find inspiration in the works of artists such as H.R.

    Giger, Henry Toulousse- Lautrec, and Rene Magritte. I could switch over from

    the most abstract of ideals, where line choice and movement dominates over

    realism, to a very soft and lively depiction. Ultimately, my goal as an artist, is


    to create an emotional response within the viewer long before rationality

    takes over and the analysis of the art begins. Raw emotion is what I want to

    see in those that observe my works as it is what I put into them. I rarely

    rationalize or plan my works unless they contain such subject matter as

    portraits that need fine tuning. My thought process is moment by moment,

    brush stroke by brush stroke, or by each mark of the pencil.

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