BaM! (Bruce Bachelder and Mike Rende)
Febuary 3-26, 2017
All works are framed. Sizes given are artwork only.
Each piece includes the original cabinet card photo that inspired the painting, safely tucked in a pocket on the back of the frame.
1
Do You Know the Mushroom Man, Ferdinand Fungus
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
2
Nelson Notocord, Zombie Psychic
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
Sold
3
Sarah Bellam, Intelligence Operative
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
Sold
4
Sid Shores, CEO of the Sea!
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
5
Prentiss Pendicock, Precise Paleontologist
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
6
Helen’s Horrendous Headaches
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
7
Nellie Nocturne, Neon Narcoleptic
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
8
Debbie Denticle, Delicate Diamond Distributor
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
9
Octavia
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
Sold
10
Seaweed Sara, the Salty Siren
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
11
Nero the Neurotic Neurosurgeon
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
12
Linework Lydia, Lesbian Litigator
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
13
Heidi Highat’s Melancholy Monday
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
14
Wizard Will’s Wasted Whimsy
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
15
Marian’s Mariachi Muse
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
16
President Bison Romano’s Fabulous Fruit-filled Fedora
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
17
Kristina’s Calamitous Serpentine Stare
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
18
Jackson Bahl’s Jubilant Ballyhoo
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
Sold
19
Darla Devolution, Demure Dominatrix
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
Sold
20
Colonel Comet, Retired Rocketeer
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
21
Frederick Follicle, Philandering Philanthropist
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
22
Demetrius Demon, Cannibal Lobbyist
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
23
Bozetta, the Comedic Courtesan
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
24
Belinda Beauregard, Bolivian Blood Banker
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
25
Irwin Theobald, Cantankerous Cartographer
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
26
Norah Noggin and Her Hovering Head
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
27-28
Sheila Sorrow’s Fight Against Her Sadness (1 & 2)
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in each
$500
Available
29
Sheldon Seamus, Seaweed Specialist
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
30
Clare Voyant, Clandestine Voyeur
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
31
The All Hearing Earl
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
32
Walter Weird, Master of the Ocular Arts
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
33
Missy Medusa, Gorgon Apprentice
Acrylic on Board
8 x 11 in
$250
Available
About the Exhibit
“Check your ego at the door.” is the driving thought when Chicago-area artists Bruce Bachelder and Mike Rende (collectively known as BaM!) set out to create their collaborative art. The artists, both graduates of Northern Illinois University, each start a painting and then hand it to the other to complete. Sometimes they follow the original vision for the painting, but it’s always more interesting when they don’t.
The 33 – A Cabinet of Curious Characters is their newest series of paintings, inspired by a box of old "cabinet cards" that Bruce's mother found while cleaning out her basement. After pulling out all of the relatives she could identify, she planned to discard the remaining photos that were of people she did not know, but Bruce rescued them from that untimely fate and inspiration struck when he presented them to Mike.
Why not bring their ‘artistic misunderstanding’ to a more tangible format? Why not leverage a basic, clear, starting point and build on that? So they embarked on a challenge to create 33 new portraits, each based on a cabinet card from the basement find.
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