Elizabeth Bonaventura

If we change the way we look at things, do the things we look at change? 

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A 166-page monograph, with full color illustrations, published on the occasion of a comprehensive solo show of Elizabeth Bonaventura’s work, spanning almost 30 years, at The Gallery at Heimbold Visual Art Center, Sarah Lawrence College in September 2023.

Bonaventura is a painter based in New York known for her fluidly gestural, raucously humorous, at times Art Brut inflected, paintings that explore the odd entanglements of human relationships and the pain of trying to know and be known by others. Bonaventura was diagnosed with the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) in 2018. The book brings together the work she made throughout her artistic career, illustrating how critical themes and concerns persisted while changing shape as her creative process evolved. The book also includes an introduction by Angela Dufresne and essays by artists Wells Chandler, Kerry Downey, Jennifer Macdonald, Carrie Moyer and Jeanine Oleson, who address and interpret the particularity of Bonaventura's perspective and her strengths as an artist, as well as looking at her life and work through the personal lens of her experience as a queer and feminist artist in late 20th and early 21st century America.