Come check out my new solo exhibition at Six Summit Gallery, with works on display in a public exhibition space located at The Port Authority in association with Six Summit Gallery. “The show is comprised of older works by the artist, combined with paintings that Bonanno created throughout the Pandemic, as well as fresh, new work from Spring and Summer 2022, the exhibition features 20+ artworks and could be viewed as a “retrospective” of sorts for the artist, with a history of paintings for art lovers and collectors to experience – while also understanding the deeper meaning of the artist’s body of work.” –says Miami Art Scene™.
The New England-based artists work is image and concept driven and imbedded in his personal philosophy. His art contains the essence of his life, feelings, thoughts and dreams, coupled around objects or topics that “get stuck in his head”, including traffic lights, grids, ceiling fans, graffiti and pop culture. Visit Six Summit Gallery to experience Bonanno’s current solo exhibition ‘Beauty & Chaos II’ at 625 8th Avenue, South Building Floors 1 & 2, New York, New York.
Hi everyone – family, my art collectors and art patrons, all of my supporters and friends – I am super excited to share with you my latest creations! I am in the studio very inspired, working on tons of new paintings with a lot of new creative ideas.
I have a great painting that everyone loves called ‘Brooklyn Cat’, I’m thankful to always have different inspirations and ideas. And I’m enjoying to be in my studio working on new paintings everyday. Wishing everyone a great Summertime, stay tuned for more from Vito Bonanno Art!
‘Brooklyn Cat’
Thank you to The Art of Autism for selecting my artwork for your information postcards! 🧩💙
www.the-art-of-autism.com
The Art of Autism is a nonprofit which empowers autistic people and their families through participation in the arts.
I wanted to share some pics of my home studio, artwork, and creative ideas.
I like writing things in my journal that make me happy and also things that are stressful to me.
Either way, it’s always therapeutic. And I am trying to cut back on smoking.
Happy to announce my participation in an online exhibition, ‘River of Dreams’ with Contemporary Art Curator June 14 – October 14, 2021.
”Our art is our dream. The dream is a symbolic journey towards the most private part of the human soul. The theme of dreams goes through the idea of a journey, reflection, discovery, knowledge and emotion. The dream is a gateway into the deepest space of the soul. Dreams are potent driving forces in life. Dreams are the source, followed by hard work for the dreams to come true, and that’s the magic and beauty of life.” -CAC.
Read my feature article in Contemporary Art Curator Magazine: https://www.contemporaryartcuratormagazine.com/online-exhibition-river-of-dreams/vito-bonanno?rq=vito
Six Summit Gallery
Presents: Order & Chaos
Marian Doherty & Vito Bonanno
314 Flat Rock Place, Suite F135, Westbrook CT, 06498
May 13th – June 30th
Opening Reception: June 12th 12-4pm
Vito Bonanno, is a returning Westbrook artist whose work is collected internationally. He has been featured in Art Basel Miami and is in the permanent corporate collection of AMAZON, Google, and The Hartford. Vito brings 20 new pieces of a mix of hyper-focused aesthetic blending street art, pop culture, hopes and dreams from his unfiltered world to the canvas by tapping into the daily emotional and social challenges of living with autism.
Marian Doherty was born in the Bronx and studied painting and sculpture at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Today, she is located in Milford, CT with her home and studio. Marian is an award winning artist with artworks shown in Connecticut and New York. Her work has been featured at SSG during New York Fashion Week and at The Leo House. The work highlights the tension between a Beautiful, orderly, linear element and utter Chaos.
Dreams & Reminiscing is my most recent body of work. Who doesn’t like to think back to the days of our youth, the happier times when the hardest decision of the day was which toys to play with. “Vito engages this self-therapeutic philosophy more out of necessity than pleasure, in a way to keep the constant barrage of thoughts his mind keeps at the ready at bay, or neutralized into a manageable box.”
‘Channels 2′, 2020. Oil paint, india ink, oil stick and oil paint pen on canvas, 40″H x 30″W’
“All Vito’s life experiences remain in the present, so it gets very crowded in his minds eye. His series, Dreams & Reminiscing documents these many thoughts, hopes, struggles, fears and ideas that flood his head and nightly dreams onto the canvas in bold colors and striking imagery. Each piece is similar yet different showcasing Vito’s reaction to the world at large during the time of its creation.”
‘Kofy’, 2020. Oil paint, india ink, oil stick on canvas, 48″H x 36″W
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There’s something about The Wiseman that I always loved, it’s hanging in my home and it’s one of my favorite paintings. ‘Wiseman’, made with oil paint, india ink, and oil stick on canvas, 36″H x 24″W. “The New England-based artist taps into the daily emotional and social challenges of living with autism, placing his innermost feelings onto canvas. His work is image and concept driven and embedded in his personal philosophy. His art contains the essence of his life, feelings, thoughts and dreams, coupled around objects or topics that ‘get stuck in his head’, including traffic lights, grids, ceiling fans, graffiti and pop culture.”
“The characters, objects, and ideas that inhabit Vito Bonanno’s work act and interact in striking ways. Caught within the grids and map-like structures he imagines, they are often in a struggle between multiple worlds. He has found a way to tap in the intensity of focus and insight afforded him through autism to unleash a formidable creative power and vision.” -Elizabeth Peterson, Director of Akus Gallery at Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU). For more information about this artist, for inquiries or to commission a piece contact vito@vitobonanno.com
Everyone who knows me knows that I have an obsession with traffic lights, ceiling fans and toilets. Below you will see a pic of my tiny toilet collection…. you gotta love collections and toilets!
“His art contains the essence of his life, feelings, thoughts and dreams, coupled around objects or topics that “get stuck in his head”, including traffic lights, grids, ceiling fans, graffiti and pop culture.” I have a collection of traffic lights in my studio. Every once in a while I get invited to the Connecticut Department of Transportation, the DOT, and they let me check out all the traffic lights that have been taken down, out of commission. They let me pick something out to add to my collection everytime!
“The characters, objects, and ideas that inhabit Vito Bonanno’s work act and interact in striking ways. Caught within the grids and map-like structures he imagines, they are often in a struggle between multiple worlds. He has found a way to tap in the intensity of focus and insight afforded him through autism to unleash a formidable creative power and vision.” -Elizabeth Peterson, Director at Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University.
The photo above is a home toilet installation from my solo exhibit in 2012 at the Akus Gallery at Eastern Connecticut State University. ‘Unfiltered V: Vito Bonanno Riding with the Train Girls’, at Akus Gallery at Eastern CT State University included works on paper, canvas, video pieces, a student-artist interactive mural project and installations. And here below I added a pic of a ceiling fan I spray painted, I love ceiling fans!
