Shawn Bonsky
Mar 30, 2009
Radial heat permeates the billowing tunes and the blades of grass dance as the brontosaurus slyly summons you across the field; Shaw Bonsky’s work is entirely nostalgic with the scary wonder of our childhood dreams.
Shawn seems as much the misplaced soul as the rest of us involved in underground culture; constantly riddled with geographic discontent, in a hurry for change, and unsatisfied with our current social status. His stroke of luck seems to be an epiphanic move in which Shawn’s family left Detroit for rural South Carolina. Sawn states that it was this move, as opposed to his prior living conditions in cities lining the East Coast, that has shaped his style and narrowed his focus. Shawn continued his not-so-jet-set journey by drifting through Florida, Brooklyn, Hiroshima and then, Philadelphia was the city that tricked him into staying.
Still inspired by that rather lush, and attainable, landscape of his childhood, Shawn creates “pretty scenery” inhabited by imaginary creatures or tattooed friends, objects that evoke feelings of familiarity. Paintings that are highly salable. He admittedly focuses on the experience of very minute moments in our lives, the moments that non-fiction writers attempt capture with words. “There is a song for every feeling, an image for every memory, a smell for every dream. We weave them together and look at them in long lines, on bus rides, on our front porches, as we wait for a friend from out of town. When we are young we have trouble dealing with the dirtier strands, and as we age we accept them, but still feel sorry for the holes that have worn through.”
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