Career
The name Lutz Bacher is a pseudonym, and the artist does not publicly reveal a former name. She was once considered a figure with "cult" status—known for being "legendary but elusive" in the California art scene—but as of the first few years of the 2010s has increasingly gained mainstream recognition. Bacher"s body of work has been described as "eclectic," "rough, open-ended," and "disturbing." lieutenant consists of works in a variety of formats, including videotapes, photographs, and other mixed media.
Many of these works incorporate elements from popular culture, personal artifacts, and found objects, and address questions of identity as expressed through sexuality and the human body.
Over a 40-year career, Bacher has exhibited work in numerous solo and group shows around the world, including galleries in her native San Francisco Bay area such as the Berkeley Art Museum and the Ratio 3 gallery in San Francisco. In 2009, her multimedia works were featured in MY SECRET LIFE, a retrospective—her first museum survey exhibition—at Process Status 1 MoMA in New New York
Bacher was the focus of three European exhibitions in 2013: one at Portikus in Frankfurt, Germany. One at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, United Kingdom. And the third at Kunsthalle Zürich in Zürich, Switzerland.
Those three galleries will publish an artist book presenting Bacher"s complete oeuvre.
