“Her Story”
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Birch Panel, 12” Round
In each of us, there is a story that only we can tell. It is full of beauty, sadness, laughter, love, tears, and joy. Take the time to breathe in the journey we each are on.
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7040 E. Main Street | Scottsdale, Arizona 85251 | 480.941.8500 | www.BonnerDavid.com
My work attempts to explore what lies beneath or in the shadows. I am intrigued with the power of these shadows in our lives and how they haunt us or make us doubt our reality, at times even terrorizing us. I consciously incorporate shadows in my work by controlling the lighting and relationships of the figures, giving form to the secrets that linger in our lives.
VORTEX
Archival Color Photograph
mounted on 1/4″ plexi with museum mount
24″ x 36″
1-5 edition Available
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The Studio
Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239
Currently on view in Seen Unseen, Feb 21 – July 14, Duhesa Gallery Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
My work attempts to explore what lies beneath or in the shadows. I am intrigued with the power of these shadows in our lives and how they haunt us or make us doubt our reality, at times even terrorizing us. I consciously incorporate shadows in my work by controlling the lighting and relationships of the figures, giving form to the secrets that linger in our lives.
With Wings
Archival Color Photograph
mounted on 1/4″ plexi with museum mount
24″ x 36″
1-5 edition Available
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The Studio
Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239
Currently on view in Seen Unseen, Feb 21 – July 14, Duhesa Gallery Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
In a strategic trickster twist, I feature children, often masked, as a tool to bring the viewer into my work. Masks are multi-layered. They are a mechanism to hide or obscure our true intentions, acting as a wall between us and the world. Masks are also agents of transformation, powerful and sometimes dangerous.
My work attempts to explore what lies beneath or in the shadows. I am intrigued with the power of these shadows in our lives and how they haunt us or make us doubt our reality, at times even terrorizing us. I consciously incorporate shadows in my work by controlling the lighting and relationships of the figures, giving form to the secrets that linger in our lives.
GHOST OF THE DEAD
Archival Color Photograph
mounted on 1/4″ plexi with museum mount
24″ x 36″
1, 2, 3, and 5 available from the edition of 5
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The Studio
Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239
I Am More than Fluff
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Glass, Brass, and Feathers, 14” x 6” x 6”, 2022
I am more than the view that my people are frozen in time, lost to a romanticized ideal of who the Native Americans were, we are more, and we are still here. I am not this fluff; I am here; I am loud and larger than life.
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The Studio
Mustang, OK 73064 | 405.308.0239
Through the Years
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, 48” x 34” x 7.5”, 2022
To grow a garden is a belief in hope. You plant the seeds, the earth, the sun, and rain whisper to the flower that it is time to grow. It is the perennial flowers that come back year after year, their roots get stronger with each year, and some send a tap root deep into the earth to hold onto their place in the high winds and thick snows. That tip of green that shoots up in the early spring brings me a feeling of joy the dark winter is passing and spring with all that it brings is on the way. I can hear the buzz of the bees as they made their way from flower-to-flower fat with the bright yellow pollen and the crackling hum of the cicadas in the Oklahoma air. I can close my eyes and am transported back Through the Years.
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MA Doran Gallery
3509 S. Peoria Avenue | Tulsa, OK 74105 | 918.748.8700
We Rise
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Steel and Cedar, 36”x 17” x 8”, 2022
There is that moment in your life when you realize you must stand no matter how exhausted your body is or how tired your mind feels, your soul must rise to hold up not just yourself but for the ones around you that cannot, the ones who need you to hold them while they rest. We Rise, we carry on, to be counted, to seen, to be heard.
The Cigar Figures come from a childhood Native American story that my mother told of the “Stick People.” The “Stick People” would run through the night and call your name; if you went with them, you were never heard from again. She never described the figures, and I was always drawn to the idea of what they looked like. The Cigar Figures are my reimagining of that story, now a story of family and my past—a complicated narrative of loss, survival, and resilience. The figures are made from real cigars and found sticks, all cast in bronze. The faces are of the ancestors and family shaped from the idea of a cameo or silhouette painting to capture the faces of the families.
When hung, the light casts a shadow of the figures on the wall. This shadow represents memory for me. Like a shadow, these memories cannot be held, and in the end, we are all only a shadow in history, shadows on this earth.
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MA Doran Gallery
3509 S. Peoria Avenue | Tulsa, OK 74105 | 918.748.8700
Night Garden by the Light of the Fireflies
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Encaustic on Birch, 30”x 24” x 5”, 2022
The garden in the summer nights is a place of magic. The fireflies fill the air with their warm yellow glow. I am transported to another time, one where you would run after the glow with amazement trying to capture the rings of light in a glass jar. We would put holes for air and watch for hours as they would bling on and off all while lying in the thick summer grass. As the night came to a close and our beds would beckon us to come, we would open the jars and watch as the magic light would fly away. It is in those moments that time in the night garden was frozen, and we ourselves were magic.
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MA Doran Gallery
3509 S. Peoria Avenue | Tulsa, OK 74105 | 918.748.8700
False Face
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina on Crape Myrtle, 57”x 10” x 5”, 2022
My Dad taught at the Fort Sill Indian School and there where many evening that the different staff and faculty members would have each other over for dinners and they would tell stories of their people and as a kid I remember hearing the many different stories and thinking of them as ours, the Delaware. One of my favorites was of False Face. As I grew up, I remembered parts of the story, I then learned that the story was of the Iroquois and more about it and its importance. The Iroquois were close to the Delaware in location many years ago. This figure is of my own interpretation of the story I heard of False Face from that time long ago.
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MA Doran Gallery
3509 S. Peoria Avenue | Tulsa, OK 74105 | 918.748.8700
Birds Eye View
Unique Cast Bronze, Patina, Encaustic on Birch, 20”x 16” x 4”, 2022
Removable Bronze Mask
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MA Doran Gallery
3509 S. Peoria Avenue | Tulsa, OK 74105 | 918.748.8700
