M. Mark Bauer: THE, THE @ Transmission Gallery

What the ?

What does it mean? Where DO we stand? 

Mixed messages, absurd scenarios, improbable unrealities - M. Mark Bauer wades into dynamic  narratives and the onslaught of incomprehensible untruths, pervasive and invasive, redirecting the course of events and outcome potentials at hand.  Elegantly detailed and wildly complex scenarios unfold in the eight canvases on view, presenting a world filled with hybrid creatures and colorful characters cavorting in a surreal concoction that speaks to the consequences of our collective insanity on each other and the natural world.  

On the one hand that sounds So Serious, on the other, a trip into the playful contradictions and sly humor that abounds in the work is hugely  entertaining with lots of lighthearted discoveries along the way.