Wire Mesh Sculptures by Bonnie Shanas
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SOLO / FEATURED ARTIST EXHIBITS

2016    Featured Artist – UPCOMING (NOV) Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

2015   Figure, Form and Fantasy– Markeim Art Center, Haddonfield NJ

2014   Form and Function - 3 Person exhibit - Mainstreet Galleries, Kingston PA

2013  Featured Artist - Grand Theatre, Williamstown, NJ

2013 Wire Mesh and Clay - Pebble Hill Gallery, Doylestown, PA

2013 Heart of the Artist – Featured Artist – Hammonton Arts Center, Hammonton, NJ 2012                   

2013 Celebrating Dance - Solo Exhibit - JCC Schenectady, NY

2013 Stone and Steel - Mainstreet Galleries 3 Artist - Sculpture show, Kingston PA

2013 From Fiber Soft to Rock Hard, Three Artist Exhibit, Tivoli, NY

2011 Celebrating the Attributes & Gestures of Women - 2 Artist Exhibit, Albany, NY

2011 Bonnie Shanas - Solo Exhibition, House of Harmony, Cohoes, NY

2010 2 Person Show, Knapp Gallery, 2 Artist Exhibit, Philadelphia, PA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS/SHOWS
2016  

  • Miami Beaux Art Festival, University of Miami, FL

  • The Original, Ann Arbor, MI

  • Gold Coast, Chicago, IL

  • Bethesda Art Festival, Bethesda MD 

  • Winter Park Art Fest, Winter Park FL

  •  Bonita Springs National Art Festival, Bonita Center of the Arts, FL

  •  Estero Fine Art Show, Estero, FL

2015  

  • Philadelphia Community Exhibition, 3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia

  • Members' Salon Exhibition, New Hope Art Center, New Hope, PA

  • Berkshires Art Festival, Greater Barrington, MA

  • Washington Square Art Exhibit, NY

  • Renew, BWAC's Red Hook Waterfront Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2014  

  • Highline Art Show, New Century Artists, Invitational, NYC

  • Imagine This – BWAC’S Waterfront Gallery, Brooklyn NY

  • Who are we – Post Residency Exhibition -Cultural Center of Arts ,Myslenice, Poland

  • Envisioning Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare at 450, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia PA

2013  

  • Holiday Art Show, Gallery Seven, Maynard, MA

  • Unhinged - BWACs Waterfront Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

  • Naked in New Hope - Side Track Art Gallery, New Hope, PA

  • Up-Surd - New Century Artists, Invitational, NYC

  • Erotica, Group Show, Tivoli CoOp, Tivoli, NY

2012  

  • Juried Fine Art and Craft, HAC Hammonton NJ

  • Coming to Brooklyn,   BWAC's Red Hook Waterfront Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

  • The Cauldron, Invitational Exhibition, New Century Artists, Chelsea, Manhattan, NY

  • PA Artisans Exhibit, Invitational , Schulman Gallery, LCCC, Nanticoke, PA

  • LCAA National Juried exhibit, Strasburg, PA

  • Spring Fling, National Juried Exhibit, WAH Center, Brooklyn NY

  • Love &Loss: Reflections on Romeo & Juliet, Lantern Theater, Philadelphia, PA

  • Configurations, Invitational, New Century Artists Gallery, Chelsea, New York City, NY

2011

  • Fine Arts, HAC, Hammonton NJ

  • New Hope Art League Annual Juried Exhibition, Stockton NJ

  • Tales of Brooklyn, BWAC's Red Hook Waterfront Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

  • Undeniable Tendencies, Intl Art show, New Century Artists, Chelsea, N.York,

  • Eccentricity, 5 artist Invitational, New Century Artists, Chelsea, New York, NY

  • FiberPlus, Nationally Juried Exhibition , Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY

  • 5 Artist Invitational - Chosen of 2010 National Juried Exhibition, LCAA, Strasburg, PA

2010  

  • Body Image, The Pen and Brush, New York, NY

  • Mettle of Metal, National Juried Exhibition, Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY

  • 114th Annual, National Juried Ex., Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, National Arts Club, NY

  • Annual Juried Sculpture Showcase, Bucks County Gallery of Fine Arts, New Hope, PA

  • The Edge, National Juried Exhibition, ArtWorks4You Art Center, New Bedford, MA

  • International Juried Sculpture Exhibition, Rogue Space – New York City, NY

  • Annual NAWA, Juried members exhibit, National Arts Club, NY

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2016 Invitational International Residency,XVMyslenice, Poland 

2014 Invitational International Residency,XIIVMyslenice, Poland

2013 Invitational -Międzynarodowym Plenerze Malarsko - Rzezbiarskim (Plain Air and Sculpture)

Stowarzyszenie Lancut, Eastern Poland

2012 Invitational -Międzynarodowym Plenerze Malarsko - Rzezbiarskim (Plain Air and Sculpture) Stowarzyszenie Lancut, Eastern Poland

OTHER

2015 Guest Lecturer, Salem County Art League- “Wire Mesh in Art – A Medium in it’s Own Right”

AWARDS

2016 First Prize - Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit, NY

2016 Outstanding Achievement, Chicago Gold Coast, Chicago IL

2016 Best in Show – Estero Fine Art Show, Estero, FL

2016 Award of Distinction - Bonita Springs Art Fest, FL

2015 Jurors Award for 3 Dimensional Work - New Hope Art Center, PA

2014 Best in Show – Annual Fine Art , HAC, Hammonton NJ

 2014 2nd place – 450 Shakespeare, Vinci Art Alliance ,Philadelphia PA

2012 Best in Show – Annual Fine Art and Craft – HAC, Hammonton, NJ

2012 Best in Sculpture – National Juried Exhibition– Lancaster County Art Assoc., Strasburg, PA

2012 Best in Sculpture – Women in the Arts – HAC, Hammonton, NJ

2012 Best in Show – 3D Juried Exhibit – HAC, Hammonton, NJ

2011 Best in Show – Annual Fine Art Exhibit – HAC, Hammonton, NJ

2011 Best in Sculpture – Women in the Arts – HAC, Hammonton, NJ

2011 Award of Excellence – Annual Members Exhibit - Perkins Art Center, Moorestown, NJ Best in Mixed Media – Juried Fine Arts – HAC, Hammonton, NJ

2010 Award of Excellence – Annual Members Exhibit - Perkins Art Center, Moorestown, NJ

COLLECTIONS

Public -

Eastern University, CT

WAH Art Foundation, Brooklyn, NY

Private – USA; England; Poland; Brazil

SELECT GALLERIES

An American Craftsman Galleries:

  • Manhattan Time Square Hotel, 790 7th Ave., New York, NY

  • Gallery 55, 150 W 55th Str., New York, NY

JBis Contemporary Art Gallery - Schenectady, NY

Galeria Leonardo- Kazimierz Dolny, Poland

Art on Centre, 503 Centre Street, Florentine, FL

MainStreet Galleries- 370 Pierce Street, Kingston, PA

 
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Taplinger M., New Century Group Show Aspires to the Highline, Gallery& Studio, #23, Feb-Mar 2014

Artsy Shark, Featured artist, http://www.artsyshark.com/2013/08/19/featured-artist-bonnie-shanas/

Janet Tanguay, Collected Works from the Artists of Art n Soul, #22, 2012

Taplinger M, Together - Disparate Styles Find Common Ground, Gallery& Studio, #7, Feb-Mar 2011.

Maureen F., Configurations, Gallery & Studio, #4, Feb-Mar 2012 .

Kulick J., Art Exhibit Stone and Steel Dazzles at Main Str. Gallery, Scranton Arts Examiner, May 2012.

Byron Coleman, The Cauldron ,Gallery & Studio, , # 16, Sep-Oct 2012.

Helen Grosso Exhibit Showcases Diverse Art, Northern Duchess FOCUS, #1, #3, Oct, 2012.

Arle Skar Weinstein – Curator, Fiber Art - National Juried Show, Blue Door Gallery, 2011.

National Association of Women Artists Inc., 121st Annual Exhibition –Catalog of works, #61, 2010.

 
EDUCATION AND RELATED STUDIES

2010      Figurative Drawing and Human Anatomy Workshop- Dianne Corbeau, Perkins A.C., NJ

2008     Life sculpture -wire mesh and mixed media,- Mentor-Sculptor Shulamit Hartal, TA, Israel

2006     Sculpture – Mesh and Concrete, Mentor-Painter and Sculptor, No’am Douieb, GY, Israel

2000     BA Studies in Psychology and Management, O.Hebrew University, Israel

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

BWAC - Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Member

Da Vinci Art Alliance, Member

National Association of Women Artists, Previously Juried Member

 

MASSACHUSETTS  

Lenox Gallery An American Craftsman

22 Walker Street, Lenox, MA

Stockbridge Gallery An American Craftsman

36 Main Street, MA

 

ILLINOIS

Artemisia

101 S. Third Street, Geneva, IL  

 

INDIANA

The Venue

114 S. Grant Street, Bloomington Indiana  

 

POLAND

Galeria Leonardo
 Kazimierz Dolny, Poland

 

NEW JERSEY

Sutherland Fine Art and Framing Gallery
476 Centennial Blvd., Voorhees, NJ 

Art Center of Mullica Hill
50 Main Str., Mullica Hill NJ

 

FLORIDA

Art on Centre , 

503 Centre Str., Fernandina Beach, FL

 

PENNSYLVANIA

Mainstreet Galleries
370 Pierce Street, Kingston, PA

 

 

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