Bukowski Painting- Light and Shadow

William Bukowski

Light and Shadow

oil on linen   30" X 40"

This is a recent painting that shows my concern for light as it hits the edge of the path.  It is like a detail of a much bigger painting, or experience.  I like the way the soft grays change almost like the natural light one can experience.  

The path will look different next summer.  The park department is currently ripping up this path and laying down paving stone.  It will look really nice when it is finished, but it will pose new problems of perspective and space.

Bukowski Painting- Thrivent in April

William Bukowski    16 paintings

oils on linen  

1st Floor Gallery

 

 Thrivent Investment 

625 Fourth Ave. South

Minneapolis

In April, there will be 16 of my garden paintings on display at the corporate headquarters of Thrivent in Minneapolis.  There is a first floor gallery with movable walls.  I have a painting on the front and back of each wall.   The show represents many of my recent paintings including the paintings from last summer.  The Sibley Park Series began in 2004 and has resulted in many variations of the garden imagery.   

Bukowski Painting- Ylvisaker Drawing Invitational

Through March, I have 2 watercolors in the Ylvisaker Drawing Invitational.  This is a very unique show for Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, Minnesota.  It brings together 27 artists that have contributed to the art culture at Bethany.  Some are professors at Bethany and Wisconsin Lutheran College,  and some are former students (as long ago as the 1980s and as new as last May).  And the rest of the artists in the show have already shown at Bethany or have inspired students, meeting them in places like Paris or Florence.  Next Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. there will be a reception for the artists and a gallery talk by contributing artist Jim Shugrue.  Jim worked with me on the Creation Fresco in 2002 in the Meyer Hall of Math and Science at Bethany.

Bukowski Painting- APW Show in New York

The APW Gallery hosted a show called World of Imagination Volume 2.  The gallery is at 48-18 Van Dam St.  Long Island City, New York.  I decided to enter the show after being invited via the internet.   The opening reception was March 9, 2009.  I wasn't able to attend, but if you check out their website you can see a video of the reception.  A couple of my paintings show up in the picture.   I had 5 garden paintings on display.  Two if mine are in the second picture on the top row.

Bukowski Painting- In the Details

William Bukowski

Peak Summer (detail)

in progress

I had a chance to see a Bonnard painting at the Minneapolis Art Institute today.  I really liked how unintentional his brushwork looks.  I also liked his use of blue and violet.  I've seen the painting at least a couple of hundred times, but right now it seems more relevant.  This is a detail of one of my garden paintings.  I am beginning to feel like this is coming together.

Bukowski Painting- 5 Square Feet

William Bukowski
2 Piece Garden,
3 Piece Garden
oil on linen- 5
1 foot canvases

I decided to put 5 pieces in a show at the APW Gallery- World of Imagination Vol. 2
Even though there will be thousands of square foot paintings, mine will be linked by image, paint surface and the fact that they fit together. It is Sibley Park in Mankato, Minnesota, still a part of my garden series.

Bukowski Painting- 2 Piece Garden

William Bukowski
oil on linen 2009

2 Piece Garden (in progress)

These two canvases finish the 5 small paintings for the APW Gallery show coming up. It is a fun kind of discipline to compose with limitations of scale and in sections. I wanted to do some paintings that are consistent with my concerns as an artist. The garden in modular small scale. I played some movies with special features going while I painted, so it was like having Martin Scorsese talking to me about film making while I painted. I think it may have pushed me a little.