This artwork "Yellow Flowrer" c.1990, is an acrylic painting on handmade paper by noted American artist Mona Dukess, 1936-2025. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 29.5 x 29.5 inches, framed size is 32.75 x 32.75 inches. Custom framed in a Mahogany frame, with black color backing. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Mona Dukess has been exhibiting in museums, academic venues and galleries for over 30 years. She studied with Budd Hopkins, the late New York Abstract Expressionist painter, and works in collaboration with Paul Wong, Master paper artist and Artistic Director of Dieu Donne Paper Mill, NYC.
Always fascinated by new processes, she works in a variety of media. Currently she is producing archival inkjet prints which are created from details of her own experiments with photography. Focusing on small areas of light reflected onto and through the surfaces of water, she invites the viewer to witness the captured image as a transformation in scale. The natural world can seen in unexpected yet universal ways, both mysterious and familiar.
She is further honing her skills working in collaboration with Henry Mandell, New York based Digital Artist. She has been reviewed by the Boston Globe (Kate McQuaid), Provincetown Arts Magazine (Chris Busa), Provincetown Banner (Susan Rand Brown). Her work has also been featured in solo exhibitions at The Broome Street Gallery in New York City, Kobalt Gallery, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill and The Provincetown Group Gallery.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA
2012 Larchmont Library, Larchmont, NY, Mona Dukess The Mediated Eye
2011 Provincetown Art Assoc. & Museum, Provincetown, MA Mapped Waters
2008 Kobalt Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2007 Kobalt Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2006 Provincetown Art Assoc. & Museum, Provincetown, MA Garden Show
2006 Meeting House, Bedford, NY
2003 Kendall Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2001 Miranda Fine Arts, Port Chester, NY, Paper/White
1997 Swansborough Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, Landscape Retrospective
1995 Swansborough Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1994 Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
1985-93 Provincetown Group Gallery, Provincetown MA
1987 Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA
1985 Brown University - Sarah Doyle Gallery, Providence, RI
1985-86 Original Print Gallery, Orleans, MA
1984 Graphic Pleasures Gallery, Larchmont, NY
1975 Pace University, Pleasantville, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Artist Advisory Board, Castle Hill Gallery, Truro, MA
2011 Gallery Ehva, Provincetown, MA
2009 Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Sanctuary, Wellfleet, MA The Art of Water Exhibition
2009 Wellfleet Library, Wellfleet, MA Water, curator, Terry Gips
2009 Castle Hill Gallery
2008 Southwest Minnesota University Art Museum, Fantastic Flora
2007 Gallery 705, Stroudsburg, PA, Fantastic Flora
2006 Castle Hill Gallery, Truro, MA, Reflections: Water as Metaphor and Muse
2003-7 Castle Hill Gallery, Truro, MA, Artists on Board
2004 Miranda Fine Arts, Port Chester, NY Elemental
2002 Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA, Botanica: Contemporary Interpretations
1989- 2002 Provincetown Art Assoc. & Museum, juried and invitational exhibitions
2001 Kendall Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2000 Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY, Great Expectations
1999 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY, Botanica
1998 Castle Hill Gallery, Truro, MA, Botanica
1996 Greene Gallery, Guilford CT Flowers in Winter
1995 La Fond Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, National Pastel Exhibition (juried by Wolf Kahn, awarded second prize
1992 Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY Paper Minded: Artist & Collaborator (curator Paul Wong)
1991 Lintas Gallery, New York, NY Accent on Paper: 15 Years at Dieu Donne (curator M. Berenson)
1990 College of New Rochelle – Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY Paperworks
1988 John Szoke Gallery, New York, NY Paperworks (curator Andrew Stasik)
1987 Silvermine Gallery, Stamford, CT Paperworks (Andrew Stasik)
1985 Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY Paper as Paint (curator Paul Wong)
1984 William Paterson College – Ben Shahn Gallery, Wayne, NJ, Material and Metaphor
1982 The Gallery at Hastings on Hudson, Hastings, NY
1980 Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, MA, Invitational
MUSEUM AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Fuller Art Museum, Brockton, MA
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Bryn Mawr College Collection, Bryn Mawr, PA
The J.V. Zimmerli Art Museum - Rutgers University, NJ
IBM Corporation, Bethesda, MD
Fidelity Investments, Boston MA
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, NY
New York Law School, New York, NY
TRW Corporate Headquarters - Cleveland, OH
Chevy Chase Savings and Loan, Chevy Chase, MD
US Trust Company, Stamford, CT
BIBLIOGRAPHY and REVIEWS
2012 Christopher Busa, The Optical Illusion of the Horizontal Line, Provincetown Arts, 2012
2012 Kris Halpin, The Color of Water, Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Magazine, April 13, 2012
2011 Cate McQuaid, Photos Come to Light, The Boston Globe, August 17, 2011
2011 Gillian Drake, Cape Arts Review, 2011
2008 Susan Rand Brown, Dukess Finds the Universal in the Specific, Provincetown Banner, September 11, 2008
2006 Eleanor Munro & Robert Henry, The Art of The Garden, Exhibition Catalog, Provincetown Art Museum
2004 D. Dominick Lombardi, Elemental, New York Times, November 7,2004
2002 Grace Consoli, A Show That Flowers, No Matter What, Arts Media, Oct 15 - Nov 15, 2002
2002 Ellen LeBow, Ten Artists Who Reveal Plants as Icons, The Cape Cod Voice, Sept.26 - Oct. 9, 2002
2002 Robert Henry, Botanica, Exhibition Catalog, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
1998 Eleanor Munro, Botanica Exhibition Catalog, Castle Hill Gallery, Truro, MA
1997 Pamela Mandell, Mona Dukess, Cape Reflections: 1977-1997
1995 Janet McCall, Art Review - Pittsburgh Post Gazette 4/1/95
1994 April Kingsley A New Light on the Past, Exhibition Catalog Atlantic Gallery NYC ISBN: 0-944854-20-6
1994 Monica Brunet-Weinmann Contrasting Harmonies, Exhibition Catalog, Atlantic Gallery, New York City
1992 April Kingsley Drawn in Light, Provincetown Arts Magazine
1989 Olivia Miller Art and Artist in Touch with Nature, The Review July/August issue
1987 Peter Koenig Handmade Papers, South Shore Magazine winter issue
1987 Paul Wong The Timelessness of Place, Exhibition Catalog Brockton Museum ISBN 0-93458-19-2
1987 Lanci Valentine Crafting Handmade Paper as Art, Patriot Ledger 11/7/87
1986 Hamilton Kahn A Merging of Art and Craft, The Cape Codder 7/22/86
1984 Budd Hopkins Commentary, Exhibition Catalog, Graphic Pleasures Gallery, Larchmont, NY
1977 April Kingsley More Obsessions, Soho Weekly News 4/21/77
