JOHN BONICK

In my recent work, I have developed a vocabulary of imagery that centers around ropey forms I call channels.  Sometimes they are stacked on top of each other, sometimes they crisscross the picture plane in seemingly random directions, layer upon layer.

For me, the channels are metaphoric of a kind of connectivity and connectedness.  That is why they extend beyond the edge of the picture.  Each image is only a temporal slice of the constant and continuous flow, a flow that can be liquid, light, life, energy, thought.

The channels, like binding fibers of the unified field, could easily be called by other names:  stems, branches, courses, arteries, veins, nerves, fibers, phone lines, roads, routes, maps, actions, reactions, paths, trails, three dimensional lines, vines, meridians, strings and blood lines -- all channels that pulse with the continuous flow, a flow that binds and connects all things spiritual, informational and biological.

John Bonick-2004

Education and Associations:    
Bachelor of Arts, University of Notre Dame
Additional studies:  Art Institute of Chicago
Past President 2000-03, Board of Directors,Arts Council of Napa Valley (Board Member 1998-00)

Exhibitions:

2004	Bettcher Gallery, Miami, FL Terre Infirma, Napa Valley Museum, Napa, CA
2003	Au Naturel, di Rosa ŒOff the Preserve, Napa, CA Group Show, Gensler, San Francisco, CA
2002	Art Direction, di Rosa Art Preserve, Napa, CA New Paintings, Solo Exhibit, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto,CA Evocative. Group Show, Markham Winery Gallery, St. Helena, CA Painting ¹ s Edge, Group Show, Idyllwild Center for the Arts,Idyllwild, CA Alternative Landscapes, Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR Flag, Interpreting an American Icon, Invitational Group Exhibit,Napa Valley Museum
2001	Solo Exhibit, Firehouse Gallery, Grants Pass, OR
2000	National Small Oil Painting Exhibition, Wichita Center for theArts, Wichita, KS Groundwork, Solo Exhibition, St. Supery Gallery, Rutherford, CA
1999	Angels & Apparitions, di Rosa Art Preserve, Napa Form & Function, Group Show, Evolving Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA Undercurrents, Solo Exhibition, Evolving Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995-1999	Napa Valley Wine Auction, Juried Exhibition and Auction, Meadowood, St. Helena, CA
1998-2000	N.A.P.A. (Napa Artists for People with AIDS) Exhibition and Auction, Clos Pegase, Calistoga.
1997	Open Studios, Juried Exhibition, Domaine Carneros, Napa Bay Area Art, Napa Valley College Main Street Gallery,  Napa
1995	Poisson d ¹ Avril, Benjamin Falk Gallery, Napa

Curator:

2004	Danger, co-curated with Rob Keller, di Rosa Off the Preserve Gallery, Napa, CA Danger, co-curated with Rob Keller, University Gallery, California State University
2003	Danger, co-curated with Rob Keller, LH Horton Jr Gallery, Delta College, Stockton, CA
1999-2002	Arts Council of Napa Valley, Open Studios Exhibits, variouslocations.
1998-1999	Independent Curator, Napa Valley Wine Auction, Juried Exhibition, Meadowood, St. Helena

Awards and Publications:

Residency - Paintings Edge, Idyllwild Center for the Arts, June 2002
Gamblin Award - Full Fellowship Residency at Vermont Studio Center, March, 2001
Napa Valley Register, 2004
Artweek, October 2003
Stockton Record, August 2003
Artweek, February 1999
Napa Valley Register, February 2000; June 1997