Cay Bahnmiller: Self Portrait/ Oil Painting

11×14″ oil painting on canvas, self-portrait by Cay Bahnmiller.————- From an online interview/biography by the Metro Times: As she speaks, Cay Bahnmiller drags a cracked-polish fingernail across a brick wall to depict the way some lives are more linear than others.—————— She circles an index finger on a pile of papers like she’s mixing paint as she describes the importance of her influences: Anna Akhmatova, Ted Berrigan, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Alfred Hitchcock, Hank Williams, Etta James, Dinah Washington, Bessie Smith, Beethoven, Frank Lloyd Wright and Freud, Rothko, Cézanne, Kofi Annan and the list goes on. Some of the names come up so frequently, it’s musical, like returning to a refrain.————————————– Bahnmiller is known in Detroit art circles as a talented, highly eccentric painter dedicated wholly to her work. Her pieces evoke the raw fragility of our urban existence. —————————- “I think she is one of the most original and profound painters in our community, and I am not alone in that sentiment,” says gallery owner Susanne Hilberry.————————- Bahnmiller is extremely well read and collects all kinds of texts — books, poems, philosophy. Many of her paintings and sculptures have words or poems painted into them, or the names of poets, or actual pieces of paper that she’s ripped out of a book. Included in the show is a table that displays laminated examples of words that she makes into paintings, along with books that she’s altered ever so slightly with paint.———————– “If I read it over and over, it becomes a painting,” explains Bahnmiller. “And I think that people should read more. And look at the screen less.”

$ 750.00

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