Reminiscent of the bizarre anthropomorphic portraits of sixteenthcentury painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo Michael Bauers work creates figurative composites from abstraction and design. Grotesque and distorted conglomerations of doodled elements gray and muddy forms entangle as abject viscera lumpy scar tissue withering penises and slithery dead matter converge as psychological landscape and forlorn memento mori. show more