June 5 – July 27, 2014
Mary Bonkemeyer. Painter/poet. Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A. Ms. Bonkemeyer studied with Philip Guston and worked with Richard Diebenkorn and Nancy Graves. She thinks of her paintings “as traces or marks that weave together, quiver, alternate, and slowly the eye registers and reads an unrepeatable pattern. There are no objects, only places—places where some little thing is coming into being”.
Being an abstract expressionist, Bonkemeyer’s work expresses her sense of the visual world, Kristin Bonkemeyer said. “You can see so much different information in her paintings,” Reuter said. “You see more information than most abstract painters have. You’re able to see her struggle with different things in her work.”
On display at the museum are paintings stretching from the mid-1960s to the present. With such a wide spectrum of work, visitors to the exhibit will be able to see how particular parts of her life impacted her painting.
Installation Images
Mary Bonkemeyer, Blue Game, 2013.
Acrylic on Canvas, 30 x 38 Inches.
Mary Bonkemeyer, Lime Shadow, 2013.
Acrylic on Canvas, 40 x 40 Inches.