Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Dabawenyo surrealist holds exhibit in NY
BIENVENIDO Bon Es Banez, named by Art & Antiques Magazine as one of the world's top ten surrealists, staged a one person show dubbed Willamsburg Alon at the Amarin Caf‚ in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
The Williamsburg Art and Historical (WAH) Center in Brooklyn, New York, is a Mecca for contemporary artists the world over.
In September 2004 a Dabawenyo visual artist donated to the center a painting that was pleasingly accepted by the management; after all, they are familiar with Bienvenido "Bones" Bañez Jr. -- the only Filipino who qualified to the world's largest ever international surrealist show Brave Destiny, held during the fall of 2003, also at WAH Center.
"My Warlock Dreams 666," first exhibited at the Royal Mandaya Hotel, Davao, in 2002, now is a fixture at one of the world's art Meccas.
Bañez is a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Ford Academy of the Arts in Davao City. For some time he served as associate professor at the Ford Academy and the Philippine Women's College-Davao.
In 2002, he won the Asian Fellowship Painting Competition of the Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA.
Meanwhile, The Amarin Caf‚ features Modern Thai Cuisine and is open daily 617 Manhattan Ave., Greenpoint, Brooklyn, between Driggs Ave. and Nassau Ave.
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