THE BONFOEY GALLERY INTRODUCING
EXPLOSION FROM PARADISE, AN EXHIBITION OF
NEW WORK BY GARY BUKOVNIK

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland native, San Francisco based watercolorist, GARY BUKOVNIK, will be exhibiting his work at The Bonfoey Gallery, 1710 Euclid Avenue. This stunning exhibition, entitled Explosion From Paradise, will be on view in both our street and lower level galleries from May 8 through June 6, 2009. An opening reception will be held Friday, May 8, from 5:00 – 8:00 pm. There will also be a film screening of his new short documentary “Explosion From Paradise” and painting demonstration with the artist Saturday, May 9 beginning at 10 am.

Bukovnik will also be exhibiting at the Slovenian Embassy Washington D.C. in November 2009. In April he will participate in a watercolor exhibition at the Kunstzaal van Heijningen Gallery in The Hague, Netherlands. Recently, Bukovnik was involved in the Bouquet to Arts Exhibition in collaboration with DeYoung Museum Auxiliary Members at the Caldwell Snyder Gallery in San Francisco. In 2003, Bukovnik was invited for six weeks to the American Academy in Rome as a Visiting Artist. He was invited for a second session in 2005. In 2001, Bukovnik was selected to create a poster for the List Collection, which commemorates programs at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. Past selectees include such prominent artists as Roy Lichenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, and Alex Katz. Gary Bukovnik has been involved in numerous solo and group shows in galleries across the United States as well as exhibiting work in China and Japan. His work can be found in such prestigious museums as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; The Chicago Museum of Art; and Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco

Using floral images suspended in time and space, Gary Bukovnik creates compositions we would not have the opportunity to appreciate with our naked eye alone. Pretty, graceful, petals spread and dislodge from the bud in a symphony of evanescence as the arrangements are tossed into the air. Stems and leaves bound by thin red ribbons dislodge and seek out their own place on the picture plane. Bukovnik’s masterful use of his medium elegantly portrays water in all its delicate liquid glory; bouncing and loosely falling, seemingly weightless and solid at the same time.

For more information about the GARY BUKOVNIK - EXPLOSION FROM PARADISE, or upcoming exhibitions, please contact The Bonfoey Gallery, 216.621.0178.