BIO
Bonny Leibowitz, Promised Land, 2014
Leibowitz produces objects, installations and paintings in a reconstructed landscape where forms collide and conjoin in myriad nuance and potential. She utilizes and manipulates a multitude of materials in ways that often disguise their origin, seamlessly blurring the boundaries between the manufactured and the natural. Her solo exhibitions include Baugh Center for the Visual Arts at Mary Hardin-Baylor University, Belton TX., No.4 Studio in Brooklyn, NY, The Neon Heater in Findlay, OH., Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas, TX, Art Cube Gallery in Laguna Beach, CA, The Museum of Art, Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX., Cohn Drennan Contemporary in Dallas, TX. and upcoming at Terrain Dallas. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including; Exquisite Corpse at Conduit Gallery in Dallas, Chaos at Ro2 Art in Dallas, The State of Sculpture exhibition at San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, What on Earth, curated by Debra Brehmer, Milwaukee, WI, Embody curated by Krista Scenna at Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT and Art in America at Art Basel Satellite Art Fair, Miami, Florida. Online: Mostly Monochrome curated by Christina Massey, Site: Brooklyn, Painting 2011-2021, curated by Peter Frank, Drawing Challenge XXII at Jason McCoy Gallery, NYC, Changing a Point of View, Sculpture & Installation curated by Christina Massey at All She Makes In 2020 Leibowitz created a conceptual installation series: The Visitation Project incorporating her work, digitally, into images of environments sent by invited artists from all over the world. In 2019 Leibowitz’s work was featured in New American Paintings. Leibowitz has participated in residencies with Judy Pfaff and Michael David culminating in group exhibitions in Brooklyn, NY at M. David & Co. Reviews and interviews of her work have been featured in Art Uncovered podcast with Kimberly Ruth, ATOA with Barry Kostrinsky, Art Spiel with Etty Yaniv, Visionary Art Projects, Winging It podcast with Charles Hackbarth and Marc Cohen, Studio Visit with Jason Reynaga Wade College, The Houston Review with Matthew Mendez, Vassari21 with Ann Landi, Maake Magazine, Pleat, Studio Critical with Valerie Brennan, Curating Contemporary with Brian Edmonds, Mixed Media Tapes with Phillip J. Mellen, Luxe Magazine, Modern Dallas, Dallas Morning News with Michael Granberry, Art Funk with Rachel and Ryan Rushing and Papercity.
Leibowitz produces objects, installations and paintings in a reconstructed landscape where forms collide and conjoin in myriad nuance and potential. She utilizes and manipulates a multitude of materials in ways that often disguise their origin, seamlessly blurring the boundaries between the manufactured and the natural. Her solo exhibitions include Baugh Center for the Visual Arts at Mary Hardin-Baylor University, Belton TX., No.4 Studio in Brooklyn, NY, The Neon Heater in Findlay, OH., Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas, TX, Art Cube Gallery in Laguna Beach, CA, The Museum of Art, Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX., Cohn Drennan Contemporary in Dallas, TX. and upcoming at Terrain Dallas. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including; Exquisite Corpse at Conduit Gallery in Dallas, Chaos at Ro2 Art in Dallas, The State of Sculpture exhibition at San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, What on Earth, curated by Debra Brehmer, Milwaukee, WI, Embody curated by Krista Scenna at Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT and Art in America at Art Basel Satellite Art Fair, Miami, Florida. Online: Mostly Monochrome curated by Christina Massey, Site: Brooklyn, Painting 2011-2021, curated by Peter Frank, Drawing Challenge XXII at Jason McCoy Gallery, NYC, Changing a Point of View, Sculpture & Installation curated by Christina Massey at All She Makes In 2020 Leibowitz created a conceptual installation series: The Visitation Project incorporating her work, digitally, into images of environments sent by invited artists from all over the world. In 2019 Leibowitz’s work was featured in New American Paintings. Leibowitz has participated in residencies with Judy Pfaff and Michael David culminating in group exhibitions in Brooklyn, NY at M. David & Co.
Bonny Leibowitz has been an influential participant of the Dallas art community since the late '80s when she moved to Dallas. The artist studied at Temple University's Tyler College of Art in Philadelphia then worked in the gallery business, representing artists and organizing shows. Eventually, she began exhibiting her work in the region and throughout the southwest. Her one person shows include those in Dallas, Palm Springs, Chicago, Hawaii and Santa Fe, to name a few. Bonny has been recognized for her art internationally through Israel bonds, traveling to Israel in 2002 to participate in a group multi media event /exhibition there and has pieces included in "Arte Internationale", September 2013 in Matera, Italy.
Bonny is involved with art donations raising monies for Art for Advocacy benefiting the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center.
Bonny was the feature artist in Stephen B. MacInnis’s “Have you met …Bonny Leibowitz” blog June 2014. She was interviewed in Papercity, Dallas in 2013, Luxe Magazine 2012 by Nancy Ruhling and by Lynnette Haggard, Lynnette Haggard artist interviews in 2013 and 2012. Her work has been reviewed by Todd Camplin for “Plight Of The Pleasure Pods” exhibition 2013 and “Symbiosis” in 2012 and “Surface Tension, An Evolution Revealed”, 2011 in Modern Dallas.net.
Her body of work “Symbiosis” was presented in the Blurr exhibition with Ben Terry at Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Dallas, TX. August of 2012. Symbiosis was then selected for a solo exhibition at the Museum of Art at Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls by Danny Bills, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Francine Carraro, Ph.D Executive Director, with a Gallery Reception and talk: November 9, 2012. The exhibit continued through January 25, 2013.
Recent works have been juried into ARC Gallery by Paul Klein and Shelley Gilchrist in Chicago 2013 and she was a juror for The International Encaustic Association Exhibition 2013.
Bonny was a speaker / visiting guest artist at the University of North Texas in April of 2013. Her presentation at the Sixth International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, MA in June of 2012 was a featured part of the conference.
Bonny’s body of work; “Plight Of The Pleasure Pods” made its debut at Cohn Drennan Contemporary in “Pleasure Tempest”, November 23, 2013 with a review on the work by Todd Camplin artist/ writer/ critic and essays by Donna Cozort, Ph. D. Diplomate CG Jung Institute, Zurich.
Works from Bonny’s “Transitions” series are included in “Facture”; a group exhibition curated by Cande Aguilar at Beyond Arts Gallery with gallery director Jessica Salazar McBride in Harlingen, Texas September of 2014.
Bonny’s latest body of work; “Suspended Beliefs” will be exhibited at Art Cube Gallery in Laguna Beach, California partnering with the Laguna Museum of Art, November 2014.
Bonny will be a speaker at The Nasher Sculpture Center by way of Pecha Kucha for The Texas Sculpture Association, August, 30th ‘14
Bonny owns The Bonny Studio in Richardson, Texas, teaching acrylic and oil painting: building techniques while fostering individuality and growth and The Encaustic Center as well; teaching the art of painting with wax and hosting nationally recognized guest artists for 3-day workshops in their area of expertise.
Artist Statement: Suspended Beliefs
My work is based in self-reflection, observing and breaking down multifaceted, long held beliefs related to perceptions of separateness and connectedness. The investigation is realized through objects and installations utilizing and manipulating a multitude of materials in ways that often disguise their origin; seamlessly blurring the boundaries between the manufactured and the natural. I like to think of my work as fragments of a blown apart reality, reconstructed into a landscape – both physical and internal, where forms collide and conjoin in myriad nuance and potential. As I work, I often envision bits of life, a torso, a tree, a wing, a wave or a cloud for instance, drawing on what I imagine beyond the studio walls but inherently “know” internally; memories, impressions and experiences,
extracting and abstracting their essence, forming them into new iterations which reveal connections and push against expectations. The pieces can feel body-like, plastic, fragile or timeless - somehow familiar, somehow unknown. Oftentimes, I build and saw apart my structures, over and over, cracking them open, adding materials and reconfiguring them to make anew. For me, this process physically reflects the continuum of life in every moment through deconstruction and transformation; knowing no moment, circumstance or person exists as a long term, permanent reality. "... To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again." - Pema Chodron. I’m interested in the silent, invisible lines of connection as words and definitions are never fully sufficient and that by virtue of the fact we give a thing a name, we immediately speak to what it is not – forming a sense of separateness.
Some of my influences lie in the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods including Rubens, Bosch and Goya. My work engages and is entangled with this history as a mirror to the psyche and consciousness. "We are constantly creating the environment that creates us" – David Whyte
My current body of work started in part, with a desire to create a variety of rich inviting surfaces with diverse materials and techniques. I've been especially drawn to concepts of extravagance, indulgence and beauty found in the Baroque and Rococo periods with their “other worldly” pinks, blues and golds.
I’m expounding upon evocative and symbolic attributes of “heavenly-ness”; facades which enlist notions of both vanity and spirituality by over glorifying and embellishing treasured artifacts. I then juxtapose those pristine elements with the presence of decaying vessels and imagery which speaks to earthly struggles.
I'm using wire, plaster, tyvek, mulberry bark, vinyl, graphite, yupo, antique architectural pieces and acrylic along with photography; details from masterworks of the 17th century.
“Suspended Beliefs” is a look at our ever unfolding truths, the way in which we question what we “know”; the unraveling and transformation of long held beliefs.
Leibowitz produces objects, installations and paintings in a reconstructed landscape where forms collide and conjoin in myriad nuance and potential. She utilizes and manipulates a multitude of materials in ways that often disguise their origin, seamlessly blurring the boundaries between the manufactured and the natural. Her solo exhibitions include Baugh Center for the Visual Arts at Mary Hardin-Baylor University, Belton TX., No.4 Studio in Brooklyn, NY, The Neon Heater in Findlay, OH., Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas, TX, Art Cube Gallery in Laguna Beach, CA, The Museum of Art, Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX., Cohn Drennan Contemporary in Dallas, TX. and upcoming at Terrain Dallas. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including; Exquisite Corpse at Conduit Gallery in Dallas, Chaos at Ro2 Art in Dallas, The State of Sculpture exhibition at San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, What on Earth, curated by Debra Brehmer, Milwaukee, WI, Embody curated by Krista Scenna at Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT and Art in America at Art Basel Satellite Art Fair, Miami, Florida. Online: Mostly Monochrome curated by Christina Massey, Site: Brooklyn, Painting 2011-2021, curated by Peter Frank, Drawing Challenge XXII at Jason McCoy Gallery, NYC, Changing a Point of View, Sculpture & Installation curated by Christina Massey at All She Makes In 2020 Leibowitz created a conceptual installation series: The Visitation Project incorporating her work, digitally, into images of environments sent by invited artists from all over the world. In 2019 Leibowitz’s work was featured in New American Paintings. Leibowitz has participated in residencies with Judy Pfaff and Michael David culminating in group exhibitions in Brooklyn, NY at M. David & Co.
Bonny Leibowitz has been an influential participant of the Dallas art community since the late '80s when she moved to Dallas. The artist studied at Temple University's Tyler College of Art in Philadelphia then worked in the gallery business, representing artists and organizing shows. Eventually, she began exhibiting her work in the region and throughout the southwest. Her one person shows include those in Dallas, Palm Springs, Chicago, Hawaii and Santa Fe, to name a few. Bonny has been recognized for her art internationally through Israel bonds, traveling to Israel in 2002 to participate in a group multi media event /exhibition there and has pieces included in "Arte Internationale", September 2013 in Matera, Italy.
Bonny is involved with art donations raising monies for Art for Advocacy benefiting the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center.
Bonny was the feature artist in Stephen B. MacInnis’s “Have you met …Bonny Leibowitz” blog June 2014. She was interviewed in Papercity, Dallas in 2013, Luxe Magazine 2012 by Nancy Ruhling and by Lynnette Haggard, Lynnette Haggard artist interviews in 2013 and 2012. Her work has been reviewed by Todd Camplin for “Plight Of The Pleasure Pods” exhibition 2013 and “Symbiosis” in 2012 and “Surface Tension, An Evolution Revealed”, 2011 in Modern Dallas.net.
Her body of work “Symbiosis” was presented in the Blurr exhibition with Ben Terry at Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Dallas, TX. August of 2012. Symbiosis was then selected for a solo exhibition at the Museum of Art at Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls by Danny Bills, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Francine Carraro, Ph.D Executive Director, with a Gallery Reception and talk: November 9, 2012. The exhibit continued through January 25, 2013.
Recent works have been juried into ARC Gallery by Paul Klein and Shelley Gilchrist in Chicago 2013 and she was a juror for The International Encaustic Association Exhibition 2013.
Bonny was a speaker / visiting guest artist at the University of North Texas in April of 2013. Her presentation at the Sixth International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, MA in June of 2012 was a featured part of the conference.
Bonny’s body of work; “Plight Of The Pleasure Pods” made its debut at Cohn Drennan Contemporary in “Pleasure Tempest”, November 23, 2013 with a review on the work by Todd Camplin artist/ writer/ critic and essays by Donna Cozort, Ph. D. Diplomate CG Jung Institute, Zurich.
Works from Bonny’s “Transitions” series are included in “Facture”; a group exhibition curated by Cande Aguilar at Beyond Arts Gallery with gallery director Jessica Salazar McBride in Harlingen, Texas September of 2014.
Bonny’s latest body of work; “Suspended Beliefs” will be exhibited at Art Cube Gallery in Laguna Beach, California partnering with the Laguna Museum of Art, November 2014.
Bonny will be a speaker at The Nasher Sculpture Center by way of Pecha Kucha for The Texas Sculpture Association, August, 30th ‘14
Bonny owns The Bonny Studio in Richardson, Texas, teaching acrylic and oil painting: building techniques while fostering individuality and growth and The Encaustic Center as well; teaching the art of painting with wax and hosting nationally recognized guest artists for 3-day workshops in their area of expertise.
Artist Statement: Suspended Beliefs
My work is based in self-reflection, observing and breaking down multifaceted, long held beliefs related to perceptions of separateness and connectedness. The investigation is realized through objects and installations utilizing and manipulating a multitude of materials in ways that often disguise their origin; seamlessly blurring the boundaries between the manufactured and the natural. I like to think of my work as fragments of a blown apart reality, reconstructed into a landscape – both physical and internal, where forms collide and conjoin in myriad nuance and potential. As I work, I often envision bits of life, a torso, a tree, a wing, a wave or a cloud for instance, drawing on what I imagine beyond the studio walls but inherently “know” internally; memories, impressions and experiences,
extracting and abstracting their essence, forming them into new iterations which reveal connections and push against expectations. The pieces can feel body-like, plastic, fragile or timeless - somehow familiar, somehow unknown. Oftentimes, I build and saw apart my structures, over and over, cracking them open, adding materials and reconfiguring them to make anew. For me, this process physically reflects the continuum of life in every moment through deconstruction and transformation; knowing no moment, circumstance or person exists as a long term, permanent reality. "... To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again." - Pema Chodron. I’m interested in the silent, invisible lines of connection as words and definitions are never fully sufficient and that by virtue of the fact we give a thing a name, we immediately speak to what it is not – forming a sense of separateness.
Some of my influences lie in the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods including Rubens, Bosch and Goya. My work engages and is entangled with this history as a mirror to the psyche and consciousness. "We are constantly creating the environment that creates us" – David Whyte
My current body of work started in part, with a desire to create a variety of rich inviting surfaces with diverse materials and techniques. I've been especially drawn to concepts of extravagance, indulgence and beauty found in the Baroque and Rococo periods with their “other worldly” pinks, blues and golds.
I’m expounding upon evocative and symbolic attributes of “heavenly-ness”; facades which enlist notions of both vanity and spirituality by over glorifying and embellishing treasured artifacts. I then juxtapose those pristine elements with the presence of decaying vessels and imagery which speaks to earthly struggles.
I'm using wire, plaster, tyvek, mulberry bark, vinyl, graphite, yupo, antique architectural pieces and acrylic along with photography; details from masterworks of the 17th century.
“Suspended Beliefs” is a look at our ever unfolding truths, the way in which we question what we “know”; the unraveling and transformation of long held beliefs.
