Biography

Bonnie Lee has had a long and successful sculpting career. She has had a commercial side: her art is displayed in over 100,000 homes worldwide. And she has had a serious side: her art has been featured in numerous museums and has been the cover piece for many fine-art catalogs. Her one-woman shows have been a delight both to her and to their curators.

Through the years, her sculptures have evolved, of course, with a movement towards the use of oil and acrylics and even watercolor to express the sculptures' emotional tones - their passions if you will. Throughout this evolution, though, there has always been her signature delight in colors - vivid and expressive, interactive and exciting.

Some would say that she should make her colors quieter than they are. She just can't do that. Her colors must be bold. They may be complex and intricate and even subtle, but they must be bold. She loves the vibrancy of colors on canvas and clay, their purity, their sense of mystery.

While her use of colors and clay is unplanned, she does a lot of reading and research before she ever puts brush to canvas or hands to clay. The research stays in the background, undoubtedly guiding her, but not consciously. At some point in her process, the colors and the forms and the research all come together and, like a jigsaw puzzle, the piece comes alive.

Hours of labor remain as she cleans and adds details, but these are happy hours. Her sculpture has developed a soul, and her own soul feeds on it.

Education:

• Cleveland Art Institute
• Otis-Parsons School of Fine Art
• University of California, Los Angeles
• California State University, Northridge
• Pasadena Art Center College of Design

Previously Featured Venues, 1970 to the Present:

• Cover Artist: Museum of Tolerance Magazine
• Cover Artist: Barricini Passover Catalog
• Feature Article: Los Angeles Times
• One Woman Show: Slutzky Art Gallery, Irvine, California
• One Woman Show: Gatov Gallery, Long Beach, California
• Featured Artist: Festival of the Arts, Rancho Cucamonga, California
• Featured Artist: American Judaic Promotions, Denver, Colorado
• Featured Artist: Art in the Garden, Glendora, California
• Commissioned lines designed for Nordstrom's, for Prelude Creations and for Appletree Designs
• Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, California
• University of Judaism (now American Jewish University), Bel Air, California
• CBL Fine Art, West Orange, New Jersey
• Hamakor Gallery, Skokie, Illinois
• Mah Tov Gallery, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
• N. K. Thaine Gallery, Haddonfield, New Jersey
• Leah's Gallery, New York, New York
• Inspiration Gallery, New Rochelle, New York
• Matana Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
• Byerly's Gallery, St. Louis Park, Minnesota
• Expressions Gallery, Yardley, Pennsylvania
• Carefully Chosen Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
• Kamlo, Ottawa, Ontario
• Moulé, Winnipeg, Manitoba
• M. Fortunoff's, Westbury, New York
• Jacobson Stores, North Palm Beach, Florida

Visit Bonnie Lee Roth's website for more information on her artwork: https://www.bonnieleeroth.com/.