Gary Bukovnik

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Cleveland-born and educated Gary Bukovnik has lived in San Francisco for over 25 years. Bukovnik’s art conveys a monumental quality. Primarily using the mediums of watercolor, monotype, and lithograph, Bukovnik fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations, creating floral images of great depth and intensity.

To produce his graphic works, Bukovnik collaborates with Trillium Press, whose owner and master printer, David Salgado, studied at the Tamarind Workshop, formerly in Los Angeles. Among the artists who have printed with Trillium are Joseph Raffael, Mark Adams, Beth Van Hoesen, Nathan Oliveira, and Paul Wonner.

In 2003, the American Academy in Rome invited Bukovnik to attend the academy as a Visiting Artist and provided him with a room and studio for six weeks. He was asked to attend a second session in February 2005. In 2001, he was selected to create a poster for the prestigious List Collection, which creates posters to commemorate programs at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. Lincoln Center past contributors have included Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Alex Katz, Elizabeth Murray, and Donald Sultan.

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:

  • Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario
  • The Art Institute of Chicago
  • Atlanta Botanical Garden
  • Brooklyn Museum
  • Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis
  • The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown
  • Dallas Museum of Art
  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  • Frye Art Museum, Seattle
  • Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie
  • Mellon University, Pittsburgh
  • Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
  • Library of Congress, Washington, DC
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • The Richard L. Nelson Gallery, U.C. Davis, California
  • The New York Public Library
  • Oakland Museum of California
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Phoenix Art Museum
  • Portland Art Museum, Oregon
  • Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
  • University of California, Berkeley Art Museum

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

  • ALZA Corporation, Mountain View
  • ART In Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State
  • AT&T, New York
  • Atlantic Richfield, Los Angeles
  • BankAmerica Corporation, Charlotte
  • Citigroup, New York
  • Cleveland Institute of Music
  • Clorox Company, Oakland
  • Comerica Bank, Costa Mesa & San Jose
  • H.J. Heinz Company, Pittsburgh
  • Illinois Bell Telephone Company, Chicago
  • IBM, Atlanta, New York, San Francisco
  • KPMG LLP, Atlanta
  • Lincoln Center/List Collection, New York
  • Macy’s California, San Francisco
  • MetLife, New York
  • The Metropolitan Opera, New York
  • MGM Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas
  • MBNA Corporation, Wilmington
  • Neiman Marcus, Dallas
  • San Francisco Symphony
  • Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co., Atlanta
  • 3M Company, Minneapolis
  • Time, Inc., New York
  • United Airlines, San Francisco
  • Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles