From Lisa Cooley press release:

Bauer’s sprawling canvases are rife with humor, perhaps made most evident by the exhibition’s title, Creme Wars, a combination of words which Bauer thought sounded funny, combined with Snoopie, the name of a skinhead who once beat the artist up in his younger days. The artist’s attempts to amuse himself in the studio take palpable form and always have. His works also concern memory and time, not only in the visual re-telling of remembered jokes, but also in the artist’s renderings of his earliest painted works, and the daunting amount of time required to unravel his arrangements. Finally, mistakes and the artist’s reverence for them permeate his practice. He transforms anything wrong, or dumb, or awkward into a strength. For instance, the artist describes the green piano in Fleetwood Mac (Creme) originally found on a friend's record cover, “ It was so terrible that I had to paint it to understand why it was so terrible”. This embrace of the neglected also explains the artist's use of multiple mutated hands (they were always the hardest to render), and absent-minded sketches. Bauer's work illuminates that which is awkward, sincere, powerful, weird, and above all, inexplicable.