Markus Bacher combines the ephemeral meandering and depth with a very tactile craft, where the painting’s surface, materials and techniques draw together poetic and atmospheric vivacity.

Born in 1983 in Kitzbühel, Austria, Markus Bacher graduated from Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien in 2009. The Tyrolean artist has featured in a range of international exhibitions in cities such as Basel, Berlin, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and New York.

In Bacher’s works, a single intended brushstroke can reveal an entire landscape in his paintings. Yet this emergent landscape often identified by the viewer is also quick to vanish. Not in the same way as a mirage, but almost as details that appear through a fog and crystallize into small, powerful flourishes of colour and texture on the canvas. In organic movements, the abstract is pulled together into fleeting figurative glimpses before transforming.

Bacher currently lives and works in Santa Barbara, California.