The Bonny Studio... Paint Your Passion!, ABOUT BONNY

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 at a Dallas gallery and eventually began exhibiting 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 with Partnership 2000 and has exhibited through North Texas Business Council for the Arts at IBM. Bonny is involved with art donations raising monies for Art and Advocacy benefiting the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center. She was interviewed by Nancy Ruhling in Luxe Magazine's winter 2012 issue and by Lynnette Haggard, November, 2012.

Bonny's most recent body of work Symbiosis was presented in the Blurr exhibition with Ben Terry at Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Dallas, TX. August of 2012. Symbiosis has been selected for a solo exhibition at Museum of Art at Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls by Danny Bills, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions with a Gallery Reception and talk: Friday, November 9, 2012. The exhibit continues through January 25, 2013.

Bonny was a Juror for the Plano Art Association 125 Show in March of 2013.
Bonny owns The Bonny Studio in Richardson, Texas, teaching painting classes and hosting drawing and sculpture workshops, and The Encaustic Center as well; teaching the art of painting with wax and hosting nationally recognized guest artists for workshops in their area of expertise.
Her presentation at the Sixth International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, MA in June of 2012 was a featured part of the conference.

You can read more about Bonny in a recent interview by Lynette Haggard here: http://lynettehaggard.blogspot.com/2012/10/bonny-leibowitz-dallas.html

Bonny Leibowitz
Museum Solo Exhibition:

Museum of Art, Midwestern State University,
Danny Bills, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions
“Symbiosis”, Wichita Falls, TX. ‘12
Visiting Artist:
The Juanita and Ralph Harvey School of Visual Arts at Midwestern State University,
Wichita Falls, TX. ‘12

Museum Group Exhibition:
Arlington Museum of Art, “The Innovative Eye” Arlington, TX ‘11

Selected One and Two Person Exhibitions:

Cohn Drennan Contemporary, "Blurr" Bonny Leibowitz & Ben Terry, Dallas, TX ‘12
Blurr; A review by Todd Camplin http://ow.ly/cSInF

Rising Gallery, “Surface Tension, An Evolution Revealed”, Dallas, TX ‘11

Rising Gallery, “Material Witness”, Dallas, TX ‘09

North Texas Business for Culture and the Arts Dallas, TX ‘08

Norwood Flynn Gallery, "Permanent States of Transition", Dallas, TX '07

Norwood Flynn Gallery, "Flesh, An Exhibition of Paintings Revealing the Soul" Dallas, TX '06

Studio Tours, Dallas, TX ’94, ’95

C. Anthony Gallery, Dallas, TX ’92, ‘93

Expressions Gallery, Santa Fe, NM ‘93

Gallery One, Denver, CO ‘92

Adagio Gallery, Palm Springs & Palm Desert, CA ’87, ’88, ’89, ’90, ‘91

Contemporary SW Gallery, Santa Fe, NM ‘91

Gomes Gallery, St Louis, MO ‘95

Horizon Gallery, Chicago, IL ‘91

Houshang's Gallery, Dallas, TX ’86, 87, ’88, 89, ‘90 Santa Fe, NM ’89, ‘90

Selected Group Exhibitions:

Ilume Gallery, "MOD" curated by Jeff Levine, Dallas, TX ‘12

44th Annual VAST National Exhibition, juried by Elizabeth Dunbar, Denton, TX. ‘12

Plano Art Association 125 exhibition juried by Laura Green director of Valley House Gallery and Ryder Richards artist, teacher and gallery director at Richland College; 1st place in 2-D ’12, Plano, TX ‘12

Ilume Gallery, "MOD" curated by Jeff Levine, Dallas, TX ‘12

Bath House Cultural Center, "Fresh Faces" 2x2 curated by Ruth Barnard, Dallas TX ‘11

Cohn Drennan Contemporary, 110 Degrees, Dallas, TX ‘11

Ilume Gallery, MOD, Dallas TX ‘11

43rd Annual VAST National Exhibition juried by John Hartley, Denton, ‘11

Plano Arts Association 125 exhibition juried by Michael O’Keefe and Enrique Cervantes, 2nd place in photography and printmaking, Plano, TX ’11

Arlington Museum, "The Innovative Eye” curated by Lee Bowman, Arlington, TX ‘11

Tractorbeam Gallery, "Well Versed" curated by Frankie Garcia, Dallas, TX ‘11

Rising Gallery, "I Am Woman" curated by Frankie Garcia III, Dallas, TX ‘10

Plano Arts, "Melting Point", Plano, TX ‘10

NAWA, Artrageous, New York, NY ‘09

M2 Gallery, "Degrees", Houston ‘09

NAWA, “Small Works“, New York, NY ‘08

Collin College Arts Gallery, "Go Figure", Plano, TX '08

ALSO Gallery, Dallas, TX '06

Norwood Flynn Gallery, "The Nude in art", Dallas, TX '05

International Group Show:
Jewish Federation's Partnership 2000, Akko, Israel '05

Representation:
Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Dallas, TX. www.cohndrennancontemporary.com

Selected Awards:

Plano Arts Association 125 exhibition juried by Michael O’Keefe and Enrique Cervantes, 2nd place in photography and printmaking, Plano, TX ’11

Manhattan Arts International, "Her Story" Best In Painting, Manhattan, NY ‘06

Israel Bonds Honoree '05

Selected Interviews:
Papercity magazine / Briggs Freeman '13 (page 37)
http://issuu.com/briggsfreeman/docs/papercity-march2013/36

Artist Interviews with Lynette Haggard, '12
http://lynettehaggard.blogspot.com/2012/10/bonny-leibowitz-dallas.html

Blurr; A review by Todd Camplin http://ow.ly/cSInF
Bonny Leibowitz at Cohn Drennan Contemporary, August '12

Luxe Magazine, Style Maker interview with Nancy Ruhling January 2012
“art of the matter” Bonny Leibowitz
http://webfarm.foliolink.com/3/Artists/19121/TX21_Lebowitz_12_8_mr.pdf

The Diary of a Crazy Painter: Other Creative Souls: Dallas' Bonny Leibowitz 2011 utopiapkwyarts.blogspot.com Gina Marie Dunn

http://utopiapkwyarts.blogspot.com/2011/11/other-creative-souls-dallas-bonny.html?spref=fb

Bonny Leibowitz - "Surface Tension; an evolution revealed" opens at Rising Gallery September 30, 2011
by Todd Camplin
http://moderndallas.net/bonny_leibowitz_surface_tension.html

Museum Collections:

Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX ’11

Corporate Commissions:

International Guardian Angels Organization '02

The Kabbalah Center, Houston, TX '01

Corporate Collections:

Poly America

Theresa Haddock Interiors

Jewish Federation of Northwest Indiana

Included in Numerous Private Collections Nationally

Published Catalogue:

"Flesh, An Exhibition of Paintings Revealing the Soul" '06

Studies:

Deborah Kapoor “From The Making of Art to the Business of Art” workshop, Dallas, TX ‘12

Michelle Belto “Conversation in Paper and Wax” workshop, Dallas, TX ‘11

Miles Conrad “Off the Wall“ workshop, Dallas, TX ‘10

Figure Drawing with Michael O’Keefe ongoing, Dallas, TX ‘10

Karen Cope, figurative sculpture workshop, Dallas, TX ‘10

Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch “Encaustic” workshop, Dallas, TX '09

The Society of Figurative Arts with Michael Mentler, Dallas, TX ‘04, ‘05

Temple University's Tyler College of Art in Philadelphia, PA ‘76, ‘77

Visiting Artist:

University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, ‘13

The Juanita and Ralph Harvey School of Visual Arts at Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX. ‘12

Guest Speaker:

The Art Club, Dallas, TX ‘12

Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Dallas, TX “09, ‘10

Collin College; painting critiques for Carter Skaggs’s advanced painting classes Plano, TX ‘09

Guest Instructor:

Painterly Effects and Pours presentation and workshop at
The Sixth International Encaustic Conference produced by Joanne Mattera with Executive Director, Cherie Mittenthalat the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA. and Provincetown, MA ‘12

Juror:

International Encaustic Artists exhibition ‘13

Plano Arts Association 125 exhibition along with Jordan Roth of RO2 Gallery, Plano, TX ’13

Cistercian Preparatory School via Roberto Munguia, Dallas, TX ‘12

Studio visits;

Abilene Christian University, ‘13

North Texas Business and Culture for the Arts, ‘13

Plano Art Association, ‘12

Instructor/owner:

The Bonny Studio; Classes in acrylic and oil painting building techniques while fostering individuality and growth. Workshops in composition and abstraction. The Bonny Studio also offers drawing and sculpture workshops conducted by Guest artist Michael O‘keefe. www.thebonnystudio.com

The Encaustic Center; Classes and workshops in encaustic wax painting, specializing in transfers, painterly effects, texture, translucent layers, pours and monotypes. The Encaustic Center: www.theencausticcenter.com also offers encaustic supplies, demos and shows for artists employing encaustic wax along with ongoing workshops by Bonny Leibowitz, Deanna Wood, Brett Dyer, Susan Sponsler and invited guest artists for three day workshops including Miles Conrad, Michelle Belto, Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch, Deborah Kapoor and Paula Roland.

Bonny Leibowitz
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bonny@bonnyleibowitz.com
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