NYAB Event - "Bonnie Faulkner, Paul Wunderlich, Balinese" Exhibition

"Bonnie Faulkner, Paul Wunderlich, Balinese" Exhibition

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Bonnie Faulkner, a Maine-based artist, has been working with glass for over 20 years. Highly accomplished in many glass mediums, her work ranges from full window and wall installations for residential and commercial spaces to finely detailed items such as kitchen tiles and one-of-a-kind necklaces, bracelets and earrings. Faulkner’s glasswork is very distinctive, as she has mastered the ability to incorporate dichroic, fused, hand blown and stained glass into one creation. She finds combining these techniques opens up placement for glass objects in every part of one's home, where even limited lighting accentuates the work.

Mandalas have always been an important part of Faulkner’s creative process. She draws them daily as a routine to center herself before beginning studio work. It was inevitable that a series of glass mandalas would present themselves and after an intensive fused-glass workshop at Urban Glass in Brooklyn, they did. The fused glass process involves building and layering the glass, always being conscientious of the proceeding layers, which will be the foregrounds in the fired piece. The spiritual centering of mandalas, meaning “circle” in Buddhist and Hindu philosophies, align intrinsically with this glass process as both explore deeper levels while encouraging light and beauty to surface.

Faulkner graduated from the University of Southern Maine with a major in Art Education and minor in Ceramics. She taught art in the public schools for five years. Due to increasing demands for her work, she became a full time studio artist and guest glass instructor for limited workshops throughout Maine at Haystack, Maine Art Education Association, Maine Glass Arts and Bowdoin College. She is represented by a number of galleries throughout New England and exclusively in New York City by Figureworks.

In 1982, Paul Wunderlich created three color lithographs that embody the proverbial principle "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil". This ancient Japanese proverb is traditionally illustrated with three mystic apes to reference a Buddhist code of conduct, but Wunderlich has created a triptych using contemporary female subjects expressed elegantly with great fluidity and line.
Paul Wunderlich was born in 1927 in Berlin, Germany. He studied at Landeskunstchule in Hamburg during the late forties and early fifties. Here he began making graphic work, including woodcuts, lithographs, aquatints, engravings, and dry points. A master lithographer, his work is publicly held in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; British Museum, London; and the Hirschorn Museum, Washington DC. Wunderlich died last year in southern France.

The Balinese Miniatures in this exhibition originate from the Ubud region, which has become heavily influenced by the Western use of perspective and proper human anatomy as export of their work became popular in the early 20th century. The most expressionist of all the Balinese schools, the Ubud school still retains many traditional features including attention to detail and very stylized characters depicted in both religious and mythical themes and scenes of everyday life in Bali. Finely detailed and compositionally complete, these small works evoke a strong presence.

Media

• Painting
• Other

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