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About Bonnie Lee MacDonald

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Bonnie Lee has worked in many mediums and formats, ranging from the early days of computer art to performance art, digital video, painting, and most recently, monotypes. After nearly a twenty-year hiatus from the art world, she has begun showing her work again. Bonnie studied studio art and computer science at Framingham State College and art education at the Rhode Island School of Design and The Pennsylvania State University. She taught Communication and Film Studies at Rhode Island College in Providence, RI for twenty-three years. Recently retired, Bonnie is dusting off the old portfolio and returning to artmaking. 

Art Shows, Performances, & Art Publications

  • “Barn Fire Remains Diptych,” digital prints on aluminum, PAUSE: An Open Call for Photographic Works, Art League RI Gallery, Pawtucket, RI, juried, 2024 

  • “Stone Street Stories, 9 AM,” and “Stone Street Stories, 10 AM,” monotypes, 2024 Pawtucket Foundation Show, Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI, juried, 2024

  • “Genetic Destiny” and “Isolated RBC,” paintings, Exploring Chronic Illness and Medicine Through Art, Brown University Alpert Medical School, Providence, RI, Invitational, 2024

  • Monotypes by Bonnie Lee MacDonald, Solo Exhibition, Greenville Public Library, Greenville RI, September 2023

  • “Barn Fire Remains I,” digital print on aluminum, 2023 Pawtucket Foundation Show, Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI, juried, 2023

  • “Stone Street Stories, 9 AM,” and “Stone Street Stories, 10 AM,” monotypes, S-P-A-C-E: Suggesting Photographic Aspects of Creative, Art League RI Gallery, Pawtucket, RI, juried, 2022

  • “Summer Cottage Story III,” monotype, Pawtucket Arts Festival Exhibition, Expression, Art League RI Gallery, Pawtucket, RI, juried, 2022

  • “Martha Susan” and “Emily Jo,” paintings, 2022 Windows on Pawtucket, installation, Pawtucket, RI, 2022.

  • "Summer Cottage Story III," monotype, One-of-a-Kind: Monotype Guild of New England Juried Members' Exhibition, The South Shore Art Center’s Bancroft Gallery, Cohasset, MA, 2022

  • “Martha Susan,” painting, Faces and Figures Exhibition, Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI, juried, 2017

  • “Stone Street Stories, 9 AM,” and “Stone Street Stories, 10 AM,” Monotypes, Down East, a Juried Members Exhibition at Saco Museum, Saco, Maine, juried, 2017

  • “Stone Street Stories, 11 AM,” monotype, Methods in Monotype, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA, juried, 2006

  • “Motherless Child,” monotype diptych, Honorable Mention, The Eighteenth Annual Rhode Island Open Juried Art Competition and Exhibition, Warwick, RI, juried, 2005

  • “Burping the Memories,” Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Cleveland, OH, juried, 1998

  • “The Jocasta Series” A Performance Piece in Four Formats, 1995-97

    • “In Jocasta's Voice,” 1997 Cleveland Performance Art Festival, the tenth annual international festival, Cleveland, OH, juried

    • “Jocasta On-line,” Ardent Agendas: An Evening of Performance Art, Performance Art, Culture, Pedagogy Symposium, PSU, University Park, PA, invitational

    • “Dinner with Jocasta,” Level Ground: An Evening of Performance Art, School of Visual Arts, PSU, University Park, PA, invitational

    • “Invitation to Dinner with Jocasta,” a video installation, School of Visual Arts, PSU, University Park, PA, invitational

  • Triad, ARTSWorcester Gallery, Worcester, MA, juried, 1994

  • Regional Artists Show, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, juried, 1994

  • ARTSWorcester Invitational, Sterling Mill Works, Sterling, MA, juried, 1993

  • Women’s Sacred Art, The Hera Gallery, Newport, RI, juried, 1993

  • Five Going on Three, group show, ARTSWorcester, Worcester, MA, juried, 1992

  • Grove’s Anatomy, Grove Street Gallery, Worcester, MA, juried,1991

  • Art, Ethics, and Politics, Grove Street Gallery, Worcester, MA, juried, 1990

  • Community Producer/Host, Artist at Work, Greater Media, Northboro, MA, 1986-87

  • Computer Art Calendar, 3 images, Golden Turtle Press, Berkeley, CA, juried, 1984

  • SIGGRAPH Computer Art Show, Art Expo, Coliseum, NYC, juried, 1984

  • Women and Computer Graphics - an Art for the Future, toured U.S., invitational, 1984

  • Art and the Computer, College of Design Art Center, Pasadena, CA, invitational, 1984

  • Computer Art and Design Show, SIGGRAPH’82, Boston, MA, juried, 1982

  • Honorable Mention, NCR Annual Art Fair, Dayton, Ohio, 1971

  • Third Prize, Sinclair Community College Art Fair, Dayton, Ohio, 1970

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