These magical tales fueled his imagination and paved the way for his studies in psychology and his eventual interest in Surrealism while he was still living in Australia. In an interview with A&O, Bleicher explained, “Art has always been a part of me. Eventually, it was seeing a poster of Salvador Dali’s Sleep (1937) in junior high, and art classes in high school, when I realized art was my career path.”
Bleicher has dual citizenship and ultimately started working as a curator at a gallery in Los Angeles. He also continued practicing his own work as an artist in Australia. Along the way, he developed relationships with other artists and started to assist them with the management of their own careers.
“It eventually became clear to me that the artists I was working to place in various galleries shared a common aspect to their work that would be suited to them all being housed at one venue.” Bleicher started gradually by curating his own pop-up exhibitions. His first gallery was a shared, modest, 400-foot space overlooking the ocean in Culver City, California. In 2009, he opened bG Gallery— a larger, 1,100 sq-ft space in Santa Monica, where he is today.