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The Bonny Studio & Encaustic Center

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About - Bonny Leibowitz and the Studios

Bonny Leibowitz

Bonny Leibowitz is an artist and educator, teaching painting, sculpture and mixed media, for over 25 years. The Bonny Studio and

Encaustic Center, are her teaching studios where she offers classes, workshops and One on Ones in a huge variety of materials, processes and techniques. 


Many students have studied with Bonny 12 plus years and she has helped facilitate their best work. 


Bonny not only teaches a variety of mixed media methods including painting, sculpture, collage and installation, she has also developed programming offering One on Ones, critiques, mentoring, studio residencies and exhibition opportunities. 


To learn more about all that's on offer, see the Classes, Workshops and One on One tabs above, on the site navigation bar. 


Bio:


Bonny Leibowitz is an artist focusing on how nature is an ever-evolving system, intricately intertwined with human culture and technology. She produces hybrid objects and installations utilizing a multitude of materials in ways that often disguise their origin, blurring the boundaries between the manufactured and the natural.


Leibowitz is a recipient of the Nasher Sculpture Center 2024 Nasher Artist Grant.


Her solo exhibitions include Trees I Have Loved, outdoor installation in Benjamin TX - upcoming, Adventures in Plunderland at Oak Cliff Cultural Center - upcoming, Dallas, TX, I Make My Own Weather, The MAC, Dallas, TX, Behind The Seen at The Art Gallery at Collin College, Plano, TX, Super Unnatural at Terrain Dallas, Dallas, TX, Appearances at Baugh Center for the Visual Arts at Mary Hardin Baylor University, Belton TX, Remnants and Other Elevated Parts at No.4 Studio Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, Pending Situations at The Neon Heater in Findlay, OH, Conditional Constructs at Forum Gallery in Houston, TX, New Artifacts at Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas, TX, Suspended Beliefs at Art Cube Gallery in Laguna Beach, CA, Symbiosis at The Museum of Art, Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX and Plight of the Pleasure Pods at Cohn Drennan Contemporary in Dallas, TX. 


Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including Art in Odd Places, Manhattan, NY, Into The Woods at ACU, TX, Reshaping Abstraction in Concord, MA, Stories of The Post-Natural at The Judy Pfaff Compound, Tivoli, NY, A Complexity of Joys at MAPSpace, Port Chester, NY, Exquisite Corpse at Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX, Chaos at Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX, The State of Sculpture at San Angelo Museum, What on Earth at Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, Embody at Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, M. David and Co. in Brooklyn, NY, and Art in America at Art Basel Satellite Art Fair, Miami, Florida.


Leibowitz was a Visiting Artist at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2023 and was featured in New American Paintings in 2019.


Reviews and interviews of her work have been featured in Art Spiel with Etty Yaniv, All SHE Makes with Svitlana Martynjuk, Art Uncovered podcast with Kimberly Ruth, ATOA and Artist Talks with Barry Kostrinsky, Lisa Pressman interviews, Visionary Art Projects, Winging It podcast with Charles Hackbarth and Marc Cohen, Studio Visit with Jason Reynaga Wade College, The Houston Review with Matthew Mendez, Vassari21 with Ann Landi, Maake Magazine, Pleat, Studio Critical with Valerie Brennan, Curating Contemporary with Brian Edmonds, Mixed Media Tapes with Phillip J. Mellen, Luxe Magazine, Modern Dallas, Dallas Morning News with Michael Granberry and Papercity.


Leibowitz curates exhibitions in Dallas and conducts Artist interviews featured on her ArtHeads YouTube channel.


Originally from Philadelphia, Leibowitz lives in Dallas, TX. where she maintains her studio practice.   


Bonny Leibowitz

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bonny@bonnyleibowitz.com

214-405-5993

About and additional supply links

What is Encaustic?

Encaustic painting is an ancient process developed by the Greeks. The word encaustic is Greek and it means "to burn" or "burn in."

In its simplest form, encaustic involves melting wax with a resin to create encaustic medium. Pigment is then added to create encaustic paint. The paint or medium is brushed on when it's hot and each layer is fused to the surface with a heat gun, torch, or iron.

The wax can be built up, scraped into, and objects can be embedded into the surface.

What is Cold Wax?

Cold Wax is soft paste formulated to knife consistency. We use Gamblin's Cold Wax Medium made from naturally white unbleached beeswax, alkyd resin, and odorless mineral spirits. It is used to make oil colors thicker and more matte. The surface is lusturous and great for working back into with various tools, mark making supplies and layering. 

2014 La Vendéenne Award in Excellence in Education Finalist

In 2011 the La Vendéenne [la vahn day en] Awards were created in honour of the fourth century AD female encaustic artist, Laia, whose remains were found, along with the tools of her art, in La Vendée [la vahn day] region of France. The Awards are intended to recognize outstanding contributions to the advancement and practice of encaustic art. 

International Encaustic Artists Magazine

The Encasutic Center featured in the International Encaustic Artists' magazine; Wax Fusion; The Encaustic Center celebrates 10 years!


Click on the magazine link to see some of the amazing artists who have come to give workshops along with links to their sites and images from the workshops they’ve given here at The Encaustic Center (pages 34 to 43). 

Encaustic Resources

Encaustic Resources

International Encaustic Conference

R&F Paints

Enkaustikos

Evans Encaustics

Swan's Candles (wax)

Paula Roland Hotbox

Hiromi Paper - Niyodo White

Paper Arts

Blue Heron Arts (mulberry paper)

Japanese Paper Place

Paper Connection

Silicone & Encaustic Tools

Poster Hangers

Pin clips - Washi Arts

Magnets

Loop Tool

Gold Foil

Pigment Stick Box

Contemporary Sumi-e and Fine Art Tools

Rice Paper  

Iwatani torch 

wood panels - Brian Hartig at: 214-762-8964 and tell him we sent you.

griddle

Encaustic Books

Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century by Ashley Rooney and Anne Lee

The Art of Encaustic Painting by Joanne Mattera

Encaustic Art: The Complete Guide to Creative Fine Art with Wax by Lissa Rankin

Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility by Daniella Woolf

Encaustic Groups

International Encaustic Artists

Additional Supply Links

Drawing and Painting Media

Alcohol inks - Holz 

Alcohol inks - Pinata 

Gamblin Cold Wax Medium 

inkAID

Liquitex Fluid Acrylic Medium 

Brusho Inks

ArtGraf

pouring medium

Blick Liquid Watercolors

Dr. Ph. Martin's Bombay India Inks

pipettes

Metal Droppers

Birmingham ink

Hickory Hill Arts Handcrafted Walnut Ink 

Copper Sulfate

Iron Filings 

Kuretake GANSAI TAMBI watercolors 

Gansi watrecolors too  


Encaustic Supplies

Aluminum Mini Pans

Griddle

Heat Gun

Heat Gun - cordless

Iwatani torch

Wax blocks

Wood burning tool

Sealing iron


Sculptural Media and Wire

Apoxie Sculpt 

Flex Foam-iT! 

UVO colorant

Fosshape 600

Fosshape 300 

Wonderflex

Wonderflex starter pack

Great Stuff 

Plaster Wrap 

Tyvek 

Tyvek rolls

rawhide

Creative Mark Aluminum Wire Mesh

Activa wire mesh large weave 

wire

silver wire

monofilament

Netting Wire

Epoxy putty

Apoxie Sculpt 

Blick Sculpture WIre 

Iron filings

Sailmaker's Sewing Palm


Drawing, Painting and Print Surfaces

Arches Oil Paper 

Dura-lar 

Yupo 

Talas Paper Masa Paper Roll  

Paper Arts

Blue Heron Arts mulberry paper 15x19

Blue Heron Arts mulberry paper 18x30

Japanese Paper Place

Paper Connection

Rice Paper 

Plastic films and adhesives 

Hiromi Paper - Niyodo 

B&H Photo Inkpress Media Clear Film - sheets and rolls

Inkpress Media Back Light Film for Inkjet - white

TerraSlate Paper for cold wax, mixed media and laser printing

Masa Soft White 31x43 

Hanji Soonji Off-White Extra Large  

Mino Washi Pure White 31x43 

Terraskin Rock Paper 

Rolled Kozoshi White Heavyweight  

 

Brushes and Scrapers

Baren 

Bowl Scraper 

Brayers 

Catalyst Shapers 

Chip Brushes


Adhesives

Talas Paper Jade 403 adhesive 

mounting film


Fibers and Textiles

The Woolery

Paradise Fibers

May Arts ribbon

Delta Renaissance foil

Joggles  

Selric thread 

Golden GAC 400 Fabric Stiffener

bleached mulberry bark

dye for synthetic fabric


Safety and Studio Supplies

respirator

Gloves

Pacon White Utility Paper Roll  

 

Display

drawing pins

Magnetacks

Magnetacks Too


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