Biography
Born in St. Paul Minnesota and raised in Arizona, Bon Gordon attended Instituto Allende in San Miguel Mexico and Occidental College in Los Angeles. An International Studies Fellowship in Painting from the Rockefeller Foundation took her to New Zealand. Bon’s friendship with James K. Baxter, then New Zealand’s Poet Laureate, contributed the literary influence that triggered a shift to abstract imagery. The Pig Island Paintings from this period constituted the first major exhibit on her return to Los Angeles, leading to a degree notation of High Distinction in Fine Arts from Occidental College (1971).
In the early seventies, Bon moved to a remote area in Downeast Maine. The paintings produced there inaugurated her consistently successful series of exhibits on the West Coast. While maintaining her studio in Maine, Bon lived and worked alternately in Los Angeles, San Francisco and most recently Brooklyn. Her work has been widely collected in numerous select private and public collections in the United States and abroad. She now resides in Arizona.
Exhibitions
- 1994-2005
- Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California
- 2001
- University Club, Phoenix, Arizona / solo
- 1993
- Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California /solo
- 1992
- Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, New York
- 1992
- Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, New York /solo
- 1989
- Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California, Eye of the Connoisseur, The Mekler Collection
- 1988
- Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California /solo
- 1987
- Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, California /solo
- 1987
- Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado
- 1986
- Occidental College, Los Angeles, California/solo
- 1986
- Marilyn Butler Gallery, Santa Monica, California
- 1985
- Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, California /solo
- 1984
- Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California /solo
- 1983
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
- 1983
- Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California
- 1982
- Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, California /solo
- 1980
- Hoshour Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico /solo
- 1979
- Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, California /solo
- 1979
- Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
- 1978
- Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, California
- 1977
- Jodi Scully Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Public Collections
- Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
- Arroyo and Coates, San Francisco, California
- Bailard, Biehl and Kaiser, San Mateo, California
- Best, Best and Kreiger, Riverside, California
- Cecil B. DeMille House, Beverly Hills, California
- Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Dean Witter and Company, San Francisco, California
- Delatte, Haskins and Sells, San Francisco, California
- Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
- Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
- Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles, California
- Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
- Pacific Telesis, San Francisco, California