Statement

ARTIST STATEMENT 2019.

I make art because I like the act of discovery. For every venture I make into the paper, I escape into this realm of the unknown… emerging in front of me. To discover what is beyond the mundane everyday life is seductive, like an insatiable act of indulgence and consumption that quenches a thirst and desire.  Discovering that the stories that touch me in real life, I can convey in some form of abstraction. Taking away what is real, yet painting what is true with colors, lines and forms. I realize that creating the imagery thru discovery, adds to my growth as an artist and this is what drives me to Paint more and more each day.

For me there is nothing more dynamic and exciting than the growth in a person’s life. As Picasso says” Nobody grows old in life, one only grows riper”. I have been hanging on this Life tree waiting to get ripe for a long time. Getting plumper and full of juices, I can exclaim my life thru black lines of ink painted on paper and explode them with the colors I choose to combine. Every line with emotion, every color with a distinct plan to move the audience into awe or nought is pure happenstance at best.

I do ART because Life is full of inspiration. For me, to discover that my Life can be the inspiration, no matter how sad, happy, unfortunate or lucky, I have truly grown into an artist who is comfortable with what LIFE gives and I paint them with my heart and mind like a child.

Resume / CV

Michelle Bond 

1268 45th avenue San Francisco California 

EMAIL: thumbellinag@comcast.net MOBILE: 415-350-8829 

 

ARTIST RESUME/ CV 

 

 Michelle Bond was born and raised till the age of 17 in Manila Philippines. She immigrated to San Francisco in 1980. Growing up in a musically inclined family, her art work began at the early age of 7 in the 1970’s.  Her early influences were works of Picasso, Kandinsky, Miro, and Dali. Her early musical and artistic background is defined in the lyrical, playful and colorful works, depicted both in her paintings and printmaking. She writes poetry, plays music, and sketches during her free time. 

 

She began painting at the age of 7 and continued all the way thru college where she finished and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree from San Francisco State University with an emphasis on Printmaking and Painting in 1996. She has 2 juried exhibitions during her college years. 

 

After graduation, she started a landscape construction and gardening business which took 20 years for her to establish. She also began in 2000 a Certificate Degree in Landscape Architecture from UC Berkeley which she earned in 2010. She has designed over 5000 gardens ranging from 400 square ft roof top gardens to 3 acres in Montara, California including a 1acre garden in Sweden. Her gardens have been featured in books, blogs, websites and magazines. Her garden business name is Thumbellina Gardens Inc. 

 

Recently in the past 6 years, with a desire to paint, she joined an artist group, OBA, Ocean Beach Artists in the Outer Sunset in 2013. She started slowly and went back to painting, producing a new series of watercolor paintings inspired by her landscape contracting work from 2000-2010 

 

They are expressions of her everyday landscape contracting life in San Francisco California.  

 

Today, she divides her time between designing and installing gardens and landscapes and continues her artwork in her design/art studio in the Outer Sunset of San Francisco. 

 

EXHIBITIONS:  

FDR BREWERY, San Francisco California; Juried Exhibition, February - May 8,2017 

WAKE, SLEEP. REPEAT, Repetition in the Everyday ADOBE ART GALLERY, Castro Valley CA May-July 2017 

IMPRESSIONS from the West Side, Group Exhibition, STREAMLINE SALON, June 2017 

NEW WORKS, Juried Exhibition, SAN FRANCISCO WOMENS GALLERY, SF CA, Sept 2017 

3rd Abstractions Online Exhibit, FUSIONARTPS.com November 2017 

PATTERNS, Online Juried Exhibition, December 2017 

IMPULSES, A Solo Exhibition, DANIELLE, UNION STREET, San Francisco CA January-March 2018 

PURELY ABSTRACT, Juried Exhibition, CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Healdsburg CA March 2018 

WORLD OF ABSTRACTIONS Juried Exhibition SFWA GALLERY, California CA April 2018 

PONT OF VIEW, Juried Exhibition, SFWA GALLERY, CA May 2018 

INTRIGUE, Juried Exhibition “JUROR’S CHOICE’, Juried Exhibition SFWA GALLERY, SF CA June2018 

WHAT BRINGS US JOY, Juried Exhibition, SFWA GALLERY, SF CA July 2018 

WORLD OF ABSTRACTION, Juried Exhibition, SFWA GALLERY, SF CA January 2019 

WHAT I LIKE, Juried Exhibition, SFWA GALLERY, SF CA February 2019 

CELEBRATING WOMEN, Juried Exhibition, SFWA Gallery, SF CA March 2019 

TEXTURES  AND PATTERNS, Juried Exhibition, JUROR’S CHOICE, SFWA Gallery SF CA April 2019 

OPPOSITES, Juried Exhibition, SFWA Gallery SF CA May 2019

CELEBRATING BAY AREA CULTURE, SFWA Gallery, SF CA June 2019

WORKS ON PAPER, Curated Show by Irene Yesley, SFWA Gallery SF CA July 2019

LINES, SHAPES AND OBJECTS ,Juried Online Exhibition FUSIONARTPS.com July 2019

MEMORIES, Juried Exhibition, SFWA Gallery SF CA August 2019

SUMMER ART SALON ,Group Exhibition, Van der PLAS Gallery , New York ,NY August 2019

HOT  COLOR , Juried Group Exhibition , SFWA Gallery SF CA , September 2019

LETTERS and LANGUAGES , Juried Group Exhibition SFWA Gallery , SF CA ,September 2019

PERTENECEMOS , WE BELONG , Curated Group Exhibition by Joseph Abbati, Senator Wieners Office , October-November  2019

ARTISTS  CHOICE , Juried Exhibition, SFWA Gallery SF CA , October 2019

CURVES AND SHAPES, Juried Exhibition, SFWA Gallery , November 2019

INFINITY TOWERS ART EXHIBIT, INFINITY TOWERS , San Francisco, December 2019

SPIRIT OF SAN FRANCISCO , Juried Exhibition, SFWA Gallery, December 2019