Gary Bukovnik: Forever Spring

GARY BUKOVNIK FOREVER SPRING JODY KLOTZ FINE ART



GARY BUKOVNIK FOREVER SPRING SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 2 019 JODY KLOTZ FINE ART 1060 North 2nd Street • Abilene, TX • 325.670.9880 • [email protected] www.jodyklotz.com

GARY BUKOVNIK AMERIC AN , BORN 1947 Gary Bukovnik was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1947 and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art. The internationally acclaimed painter and printmaker now lives in San Francisco, his home since 1974. His dramatic art conveys a highly monumental quality, both in the size of some of his works and in his use of space. Primarily using the mediums of watercolor, monotype and lithograph, Bukovnik fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations, creating floral images of great depth and intensity. Bukovnik’s watercolors are poetic and dynamic, both realistic and marvelously abstract. Isolation on a white background is a significant feature in the artist’s work. He creates a shallow and abstract space, eliminating any figure-ground ambivalence. The blankness and starkness of the paper idealizes and universalizes his floral subjects, and his works have a sense of purity and simplicity. Often his art has a musical quality, with vividly colored flowers leaping and dancing across the paper. In other works, he paints images of cut flowers in vases, suggesting space by indicating the way in which the container sits on a surface. In creating these unique compositions, he moves away from academic notions of space. He breaks traditional still-life structure, and in turn, predictability. Through Bukovnik’s creativity, his watercolors acquire an energy that palpably enriches the lives of their audience. In an interview with Clare Henry, art critic for the Financial Times in London, when asked why he chose to paint flowers, Bukovnik stated, “It’s not an option. Flowers chose me. I tried for years to escape. Flowers are the vocabulary of the language that I speak. I originally fought it, with varying degrees of success. You search and travel to explain who you are. Eventually I understood. These are true representations of me - for better or worse. Take it or leave it. It has to be.” To produce his graphic works, Bukovnik collaborated with Trillium Press, whose owner and master printer, David Salgado, studied at the Tamarind Workshop, formerly in Los Angeles. Bukovnik’s works are the subject of numerous publications, including Flowers: Gary Bukovnik Watercolors & Monotypes, 1990 and Gary Bukovnik: Watercolors, 2005. His most recent publication, Forever Spring: Gary Bukovnik, 2019, a bilingual book in English and Chinese, was published this spring in Shanghai. It chronicles his floral watercolors of the past ten years, and is the inspiration behind the title of this exhibition. The artist’s work is represented in diverse public and private collections, including museums and corporate collections. Among the most notable museums to feature his

work are The Hague, The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum. He has also enjoyed great success in China through a number of museum shows, including the Today Art Museum in Beijing, the Shanghai Hongqiao Contemporary Art Museum, and the art museums of Tianjin, Xiamen and Suzhou. Bukovnik is also widely exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions in Beijing, Madrid, Ontario and Luxembourg. He 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 2010. Bukovnik also donates his art to benefit community and civic organizations such as the San Francisco Symphony, which has commissioned a poster announcing its fall season each year since 1982. It is the longest running collaboration between an artist and a performing arts organization, even surpassing Georgia O’Keefe and her work with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. The artist’s work has also become a permanent fixture within the Davies Symphony Hall. In 2001, he was selected by the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York to be a part of the prestigious List Collection, which commissions artists to create posters to commemorate programs at the center. Past contributors have included Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, and Helen Frankenthaler. The New York Metropolitan Opera also commissioned the artist to create a poster commemorating their 1990-1991 season. Other organizations to feature Bukovnik’s work include the New York Metropolitan Opera, Refugees International in Japan, and Project Open Hand in San Francisco.

EXHIBITIONS Editions Limited Gallery, Indianapolis, IN, 1999, 2003 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Johnstown, PA, ADI Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1977, 1980 1999 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, 1981 Neuhoff Gallery, New York, NY, 2000 Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1981, 1982, 1983, Paula Brown Gallery, Toledo, OH, 2003, 2008 1984 The Butler Institute for American Art, Youngstown, OH, Robley Gallery, Roslyn, New York, NY, 1982, 1984, 2003 1990 Erickson Fine Art Gallery, Healdsburg, CA, 2004 Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY, 1983, 1984, 1986, Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2005 1987, 1989, 1991 Gallery at A.C.T., Geary Theatre, San Francisco, CA, Young Gallery, Saratoga, CA, 1983, 1984, 1988 2005, 2007 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1984 South Eastern Regional Flower Show, Atlanta, GA, 2006, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, 1984 2007 Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 1984, 1986, 1988, Fellows Riverside Gardens, Youngstown, OH, 2006, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2006 2008, 2013 Gallery 460, Green Point, Australia, 1985, 1989 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2007, Nancy Teague Gallery, Seattle, WA, 1985, 1987 2010 Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1986, 1987 Campton Gallery, New York, NY, 2007, 2009, 2012 The Cleveland Play House Gallery, OH, 1986, 1989, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA, 2008 1996 St. Bonaventure University, New York State, 2008 Atlanta Botanical Garden, GA, 1987 Kunstzal Van Heijningen, The Hague, Netherlands, 2009, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland, 1987 2017 Portfolio Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, 1987 University of California Botanical Garden, Berkeley, CA, Galerie Kutter, Luxembourg, 1988, 1994, 1996, 1999 2009, 2013, 2015 Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN, 1990, 1991, 1993, Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia, Washington, D.C., 1996, 1998, 2003, 2006 2010, 2015 Galeria Ansorena, Madrid, Spain, 1991, 2014, 2015, The Slovenian Museum and Archives, Cleveland, OH, 2018 2010 Chicago Botanic Garden, IL, 1991 Jiya Art Gallery, Quanzhou, China, 2011, 2012 Gallery at Lincoln Center, New York, NY, 1991 Shanghai HongQiao Contemporary Art Museum, China, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, 1991 2011, 2015 Cleveland Botanical Garden, OH, 1992 Art Museum of the Suzhou Art Academy, Suzhou, China, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 1992, 1996 2011 Images Gallery, Toledo, OH, 1993, 1996, 1997 Xiamen Art Museum, Xiamen, China, 2012 California State University, Bakersfield, CA, 1994 Thomas Reynolds Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2013 I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA, 1994, 1997, 2000 Tianjin Museum of Art, Tianjin, China, 2013 Jakopic Gallery, Architecture Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia, US Embassy in Beijing, China, 2013 1994 Today International Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2014 Erickson & Elins Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1996, 1999, Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL, 2015, 2017 2003 Cronstetten-Haus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2015 Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie California 2016 Impression International Art Forum & Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1996 Exhibition, CA, 2016 Umetnostna Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia, 1996 WASH: Watercolor Artists of Sacramento Horizons, CA, Memphis Botanic Garden, TN, 1997 2016 Ann Jacob Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 1998, 2000, 2003 Eastern Shore Art Center, Mobile, AL, 2017 The Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 1998, 2003, DeLand Art Museum, DeLand, FL, 2017 2005, 2009, 2013 US Consulate Shanghai American Center, Shanghai, Chin Show Art Center, Taipei, 1998 China, 2018 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Ligonier, PA, 1998 Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, Shanghai, China, 2018 Editions Limited Gallery, Indianapolis, IN, 1999, 2003 Children’s Palace, Yangpu District, Shanghai, China, 2018 Dongshan Museum, Beijing, China, 2018

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS Macy’s California, San Francisco, CA MetLife, New York, NY Kunstzal Van Heijningen, The Hague, Netherlands The Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY MGM Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas, NV The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY MBNA Corporation, Wilmington, NC Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Neiman Marcus, Dallas, TX The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH San Francisco Symphony, CA The Art Institute of Chicago, IL Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co., Atlanta, GA Brooklyn Museum, MA 3M Company, Minneapolis, MN Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA Time, Inc., New York, NY Dallas Museum of Art, TX United Airlines, San Francisco, CA The New York Public Library, NY Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles, CA Library of Congress, Washington, D.C Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada PUBLICATIONS Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA Forever Spring: Gary Bukovnik. Foreword by Zhang min, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie first edition, Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 2019, Shanghai, China. Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Gary Bukovnik Landscapes. Obregón, 2012, San The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN Francisco, CA. The Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Gary Bukovnik Watercolors. For the San Francisco Davis, CA Symphony 2011 Centennial Celebration, Norfolk Press, Oakland Museum of California, CA 2011, San Francisco, CA. Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA Food for Life: Watercolors for Project Open Hand. 2011, Phoenix Art Museum, AZ San Francisco. Portland Art Museum, OR Gary Bukovnik: Watercolors. Foreword by Louis A. Zona, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI introduction by Carter E. Foster, interview by Clare Henry, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA first edition, Hudson Hills Press LLC, 2005, Manchester, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ VT. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, CA Flowers: Gary Bukovnik Watercolors & Monotypes. Foreword by James J. White, interview by Robert Flynn PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Johnson, essay by Judith Gordon, first edition, Harry N. Abrams, 1990, New York, NY. ALZA Corporation, Mountain View, CA Bukovnik Monotypes 1980-1984. Exhibition catalogue ART In Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State for the Brooklyn Museum, Images Press, 1984, Santa AT&T, New York, NY Rosa, CA. Atlantic Richfield, Los Angeles, CA BankAmerica Corporation, Charlotte, NC Citigroup, New York, NY Cleveland Institute of Music, OH Clorox Company, Oakland, CA Comerica Bank, Costa Mesa & San Jose, CA H.J. Heinz Company, Pittsburgh, PA Illinois Bell Telephone Company, Chicago, IL IBM, Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, CA KPMG LLP, Atlanta, GA Lincoln Center/List Collection, New York, NY

Elevating Rainbow Tulips, 2018 Watercolor on paper 40 x 60 inches Signed and dated lower right: Gary Bukovnik 2018

E L E VAT I N G RAINBOW TULIPS

Calla Lilies in a Tall Vase, 2019 Watercolor on paper 42 x 14 inches Signed and dated lower center: Gary Bukovnik 2019

Peonies in a Tall Vase, 2019 Watercolor on paper 30 x 22 ½ inches Signed and dated lower center: Gary Bukovnik 2019

Flame Vine #1, 2019 Watercolor on paper 22 x 13 inches Signed and dated lower left: Gary Bukovnik 2019

Iris Study #2, 2019 Watercolor on paper 12 x 12 inches Signed and dated lower right: Gary Bukovnik 2019

RHODOD

ENDRON Rhododendron, 2019 Watercolor on paper 40 x 83 ¼ inches Signed and dated lower right: Gary Bukovnik 2019

Small Sunflowers, 2019 Watercolor on paper 18 x 8 ½ inches Signed and dated lower left: Gary Bukovnik 2019

Orange Dahlias in a Tall Vase, 2019 Watercolor on paper 29 ½ x 21 inches Signed and dated lower center: Gary Bukovnik 2019

Dark Blue Irises, 2019 Watercolor on paper 40 x 23 ¾ inches Signed and dated lower center: Gary Bukovnik 2019

Oleander in a Tall Vase, 2019 Watercolor on paper 35 x 35 inches Signed and dated lower left: Gary Bukovnik 2019

BRIGHTP

POPPIES Bright Poppies, 2019 Watercolor on paper 20 x 60 inches Signed and dated lower right: Gary Bukovnik 2019

Amaryllis in a Tall Vase, 2018 Watercolor on paper 40 x 25 ½ inches Signed and dated lower right: Gary Bukovnik 2018

Blossoms in a Blue Vase, 2019 Watercolor on paper 22 x 13 inches Signed and dated lower right: Gary Bukovnik 2019

Joyful Escape, 2019 Watercolor on paper 29 ½ x 42 inches Signed and dated lower right: Gary Bukovnik 2019

JOYFUL ESCAPE

Red Dahlias, 2018 Watercolor on paper 30 x 22 inches Signed and dated lower right: Gary Bukovnik 2018

Lupin in a Tall Vase, 2018 Watercolor on paper 40 x 25 inches Signed and dated lower right: Gary Bukovnik 2018

COMPOSIT TUMBLIN

TIONWITH N GVA S E S Composition with Tumbling Vases, 2019 Watercolor on Japanese mulberry paper 28 ½ x 68 inches Signed and dated lower right: Gary Bukovnik 2019

Red Irises in a Tall Vase, 2019 Watercolor on paper 42 x 21 ½ inches Signed and dated lower center: Gary Bukovnik 2019

Large Sunflowers, 2019 Watercolor on paper 30 x 22 inches Signed and dated lower left: Gary Bukovnik 2019

Flame Vine #2, 2019 Watercolor on paper 22 x 15 inches Signed and dated lower left: Gary Bukovnik 2019

Iris Study #1, 2019 Watercolor on paper 12 x 12 inches Signed and dated lower right: Gary Bukovnik 2019

RHODOD

ENDRON Rhododendron, 2019 Watercolor on paper 20 x 60 inches Signed and dated lower right: Gary Bukovnik 2019

Blue Irises in a Tall Vase, 2019 Watercolor on paper 41 ½ x 21 ½ inches Signed and dated lower center: Gary Bukovnik 2019

Garden Roses, 2019 Watercolor on paper 22 x 14 inches Signed and dated lower right: Gary Bukovnik 2019

Daffodils, 2016 Watercolor on paper 19 x 16 inches Signed and dated lower center: Gary Bukovnik 2016

Sunflower Study, 2019 Watercolor on paper 13 ½ x 13 ½ inches Signed and dated lower right: Gary Bukovnik 2019

Jubilent Tulips, 2019 Watercolor on paper 22 x 30 inches Signed and dated lower right: Gary Bukovnik 2019

JUBILENT TULIPS

PRICE LIST Amaryllis in a Tall Vase, 2018 $6,300 Blossoms in a Blue Vase, 2019 $1,950 Blue Irises in a Tall Vase, 2019 $5,750 Bright Poppies, 2019 $10,250 Calla Lilies in a Tall Vase, 2019 $3,800 Composition with Tumbling Vases, 2019 $11,600 Daffodils, 2016 $2,100 Dark Blue Irises, 2019 $6,000 Elevating Rainbow Tulips, 2018 $14,800 Flame Vine #1, 2019 $2,200 Flame Vine #2, 2019 $2,200 Garden Roses, 2019 $2,200 Iris Study #1, 2019 $1,600 Iris Study #2, 2019 $1,600 Joyful Escape, 2019 $8,000 Jubilent Tulips, 2019 $4,300 Large Sunflowers, 2019 $4,300 Lupin in a Tall Vase, 2018 $6,300 Oleander in a Tall Vase, 2019 $7,750 Orange Dahlias in a Tall Vase, 2019 $4,000 Peonies in a Tall Vase, 2019 $4,350 Red Dahlias, 2018 $4,300 Red Irises in a Tall Vase, 2019 $5,800 Rhododendron, 2019 (Pink) $21,500 Rhododendron, 2019 (Red) Small Sunflowers, 2019 SOLD Sunflower Study, 2019 $1,650 $1,600 prices and availability subject to change

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