Mickey Bond

www.mickeybond.com

Artist Statement:
My paintings reflect my daily response to nature's beauty, her dynamic forces
and the mystery of creation. I work in two styles: abstract landscape paintings
and mixed media abstracts. Though both derive from the same plein air
experience, the landscapes evoke a sense of place and mood whereas the
abstracts explore an essential aspect of nature such as the sea, sky and land.

An abstract expressionist, I prize mark making highly and allow my

compositions to grow out of direct contact with my painting media. I do use
brushes but mainly non-traditional such as scrapers, cloths, sponges, knives
and primarily my hands. Painting outdoors, I think of nature as my
collaborator deeply affecting me and the mediums I use, sometimes with
surprising results. Last winter, I discovered by accident how to make ice crystal
prints on the surface of clayboards. A technique known to watercolorists but
new to me, learning how to capture these delicate patterns felt like a secret
bestowed by nature. My current plein air series “Trees Listening for Winter”
explores the use of translucent colored crystal prints as underpainting.

I was born in Israel to parents from Poland & Bulgaria and later raised in west
suburban Boston. After attending Colgate University as an undergraduate , I
spent some years in Ann Arbor where I received my MA in American Literature
from the University of Michigan. I have lived in Santa Fe since 1994. In New
Mexico you can see my work at Matrix Arts Santa Fe or Chroma Studios Gallery
in Albuquerque. Outside New Mexico, I'm represented by Cloud & Star Gallery
in Tubac Arizona's historic district.
Selected Gallery & Museum Shows:
Member's Annual Juried Exhibit, Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ
November & December 2010

The Spirit of Place, Millicent Rogers Museum Taos, NM

October 9 – November 14, 2010

Open Space: A View with Room & Little Gems, Open Space Visitor Center,
Albuquerque, NM
September – October 2010

Visions of Land, Sea & Sky, Matrix Arts Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
September 2010

Tubac Summer Gallery, Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ

July 2010

Never Think small:REDUX! climate/gallery, Long Island City, NY

April 2010

COLLECT 8. The Center for Contemporary Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM.
April 2010

Sunlight: Art Show with a Cause

Gallery with a Cause, New Mexico Cancer Center, Albuquerque, NM
March 14- June 5, 2010

Mixed Media Show Meow Wolf Art Gallery Santa Fe, NM

February 2010

3rd Annual Open Hands, Open Hearts, The Edge Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
December 2009

Fresh Paint, University of Arizona Museum of Art,

November 2009

"High Road to Taos: Plein air Painters of New Mexico Paintout" Wilder
Nighttingale Gallery, Taos, NM
August 2009

Seeking Solitude: Isolation in Ar Gallery, RFD, Swainsboro GA.

May 2009

Faces & Places. Jennie Cooley Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.

April 2009

Canyon Road Paint Out Show. Giacobbe-Fritz Fine ArtSanta Fe, NM

October 2008

Painting the Land of Enchantment. Sumner & Dene Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.
August 2008

COLLECT 8. The Center for Contemporary Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM.
April 2008