Bonnie Bishop

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    About Bonnie Bishop

    A Santa Fe, New Mexico-based photographer Bonnie Bishop’s latest series “Refracted Light” continues to display her interest in windows and translucent light. This group of images was discovered as she was in a waiting room watching light refracted through glass blocks stream through a ficus tree and produce a complex display of light, color and shadow.

    “I am drawn to images of windows: the mixed message of a covered aperture, the energy of a punctured plane, the covert act of peering through a scene into another’s life, windowsill displays and the stories they tell, the complex distortions textured glass creates, the graceful folds of curtains and the way light plays over and through fabric, and the patterned layers that windows reflect.”

    Bonnie’s photography was included in the international juried exhibit and book “Curtains” produced by the University of Texas, Austin in 2013, and her work has been accepted into several other juried shows including “20 New Mexico Photographers, 2015”, a portfolio of small prints. Her first show at Chiaroscuro was “Kyoto Windows,” life-sized images of patterned windows she photographed in Kyoto, Japan. One of these images was chosen for a benefit auction by the Hunter Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee and the photographs were featured in the Santa Fe newspaper arts magazine “Pasa Tiempo”. In 2014 Chiaroscuro displayed her “Albuquerque Windows” series, abstract images of painterly gestures scratched on a downtown street window.

    Bonnie is drawn to images that are mysterious - pictures that fade the line between photography and painting. Her background in graphic design is apparent in her two-dimensional photographs of abstract details. Striving to instill curiosity she is drawn to images that are both beautiful and haunting, pictures that hold one’s attention over time.

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