Linen Flowers, 2004, relief prints on handmade linen paper

Donald Baechler gained international recognition in the early 1980s as part of the burgeoning downtown New York art scene in Soho and the East Village. He exhibited at the newly opened Tony Shafrazi gallery, which also represented his contemporaries Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Kenny Scharf.  The source materials for his distilled post-pop iconography are culled from children’s books, advertisements, magazines, newspapers, and google image searches.  Baechler’s techniques include collage, silkscreen, photo transfer, and tracing slide projections of photographs of his own work.  The resulting layered imagery speaks in a lexicon of the artist’s own making that is universally recognizable.

Donald Baechler’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, LA, and The Centre George Pompidou among other institutions worldwide.   He has had recent solo shows at The Kunsthalle Merano, Italy and The Museum der Moderne, Rupertinum, Salzburg.