Gary Bukovnik, Large Bold Colorful Monoprint Painting Floral in Vase February Amaryllis Flowers, 1992

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Image is 48 X 36 inches. Still life of flowers in a vase. In bold red, orange green and yellow … Read more Image is 48 X 36 inches. Still life of flowers in a vase. In bold red, orange green and yellow color.
Born and educated in Cleveland, Gary Bukovnik has lived in San Francisco for more than a third of a century. Primarily using the media of watercolor, monotype, and lithograph, Bukovnik fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations, creating floral and culinary images of great depth, intensity, and size.

In 2003 and 2005, invited Bukovnik was Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2003 and 2005 and was an artist-in-residence at the Michigan Institute of Arts in Kalamazoo in 2010, as well as making a tour of exhibitions and watercolor demonstrations across Japan in 2010.

Solo exhibitions include Caldwell Snyder Gallery in San Francisco and in St. Helena, CA, Campton Gallery in New York City; the Concept Gallery in Pittsburgh, the A.C.T. Gallery in San Francisco, and the Bonfoey Gallery in Cleveland. Other recent exhibitions have been organized by the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Paula Brown Gallery, Toledo, Neuhoff Gallery, New York; Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis; Irving Galleries, Palm Beach; Galerie Kutter, Luxembourg; the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Chin Show Cultural Center, Taipei; Takashimaya, Tokyo; the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh; and Brevard Museum of Art, Melbourne, Florida.

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario
The Art Institute of Chicago
Atlanta Botanical Garden
Brooklyn Museum
Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown
Dallas Museum of Art
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Frye Art Museum, Seattle
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Richard L. Nelson Gallery, U.C. Davis, California
The New York Public Library
Oakland Museum of California
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Phoenix Art Museum
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

ALZA Corporation, Mountain View
ART In Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State
AT&T, New York
Atlantic Richfield, Los Angeles
BankAmerica Corporation, Charlotte
Citigroup, New York
Cleveland Institute of Music
Clorox Company, Oakland
Comerica Bank, Costa Mesa & San Jose
H.J. Heinz Company, Pittsburgh
Illinois Bell Telephone Company, Chicago
IBM, Atlanta, New York, San Francisco
KPMG LLP, Atlanta
Lincoln Center/List Collection, New York
Macy’s California, San Francisco
MetLife, New York
The Metropolitan Opera, New York
MGM Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas
MBNA Corporation, Wilmington
Neiman Marcus, Dallas
San Francisco Symphony
Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co., Atlanta
3M Company, Minneapolis
Time, Inc., New York
United Airlines, San Francisco
Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles

Education: The Cleveland Institute of Art
Residencies: Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, 2003, 2005 Michigan Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI 2010

Select Solo Exhinbitions:

Thomas Reynolds Gallery, San Francisco, CA — May
Tianjin Museum of Art, Tianjin, China – September
the US Embassy in Beijing, China — September
Campton Gallery, New York, NY
Jiya Art Gallery, Quanzhou, China
Xiamen Art Museum, Xiamen, China
Alameda Public Library, Alameda, CA
Quanzhou – Jiya Culture Gallery
Shanghai – Shanghai HongQiao Contemporary Art Museum
Suzhou – Art Museum of the Suzhou Art Academy
Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia, Washington, DC
The Slovenian Museum & Archives, Cleveland, OH
Ureshiro, Saga Prefecture
Ebino, Miyazaki Prefecture
Kanazawa, Ishikana Prefecture
Shibukana, Gunma Prefecture Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture
Kunstzal Van Heijningen, The Hague, Netherlands
University of California @ Berkeley Botanical Garden, CA
South Eastern Regional Flower Show, Atlanta, GA
Caldwell-Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Trajan Gallery, Carmel, CA
Rotunda Gallery at the Sequoias, San Francisco, CA
Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Gallery at A.C.T., Geary Theatre, San Francisco, CA
Douglas Frazer Fine Art, Bellevue, WA
Neuhoff Gallery, New York, NY
Irving Galleries, Palm Beach, FL
Ann Jacob Gallery, Atlanta, GA
The Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Chin Show Art Center, Taipei [catalog]
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Ligonier, PA
Takashimaya, Tokyo
Merging One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Mulligan-Shanoski Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Erickson & Elins Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation,
Umetnostna Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA
Jakopic Gallery, Architecture Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia [catalog]
Images Gallery, Toledo, OH
Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Ansorena, Madrid [catalog]
Chicago Botanic Garden, IL
Gallery at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University
Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN
Mary Bell Galleries, Chicago, IL
Galerie Kutter, Luxembourg [catalog]
Atlanta Botanical Garden, GA
Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Portfolio Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Cleveland Play House Gallery, OH
Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Gallery 460, Green Point, Australia
Graystone, San Francisco, CA
Nancy Teague Gallery, Seattle, WA
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario [catalog]
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY [catalog]
Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY
Young Gallery, Saratoga, CA
Robley Gallery, Roslyn, New York, NY
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
ADI Gallery, San Francisco, CA See less