September 6, 2022
Jersey bound commuters and bus passengers to points beyond probably already know about this, but the rest of us may not be aware that there’s an art gallery inside Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown. At the moment there are a dozen or so paintings by Vito Bonanno on display.
From the Artist’s website:
“Vito Bonanno is an internationally collected artist who lives and works on the CT shoreline. He has exhibited in solo exhibitions at Spectrum Miami during Art Basel in Miami, FL, Umbrella Arts Gallery, NYC and Akus Gallery, Willimantic, CT. His numerous group exhibitions include a sold out exhibition at Metro Curates, NYC in 2014, Uarts & CT Places, Hartford, CT, New England ADA, Boston, Ma, The Outsider Art Fair, NY and Intuit Outsider Art Fair, Chicago. For a full list of past and forthcoming exhibitions and events please check out the exhibitions tab.
“His outsider creative style results in a mix of hyper-focused autism inspired aesthetic blending street art, pop culture and dreams from his unfiltered world to the canvas. His inspiration is to tap into the daily emotional and social challenges of living with autism, which fuels this hybrid dream-state aesthetic, where conceptual and abstract expressionism styles collide to form enchanting and powerful results. Image and concept driven and imbedded in his personal philosophy, his art contains the essence of his life, feelings, thoughts, fears and dreams. His unique view of the world provides a seemingly endless well of inspiration that fills his head with images and concepts until they spill over onto the canvas bursting on the scene in vibrant colors and hard to ignore imagery that can harbor obvious, but often secret messages.”
Visit Six Summit Gallery to experience Bonanno’s current solo exhibition ‘Beauty & Chaos II’ at 625 8th Avenue, South Building Floors 1 & 2, New York, New York.