Jodi Bonassi

My new bird series is polar opposite to my previous works. For three decades I created works about people, diversity, unity, communal exchange, and the news. As an LA native I spent my time sketching people in places of communal exchange. Barbershops, cafes, the LA art scene and even while riding the metro encompassed my world. The seismic shift taking place due to the political environment gender, identity, economics and Covid 19 changed my perspective.Now I seek serenity in nature preferring to draw and paint birds in different narratives. The birds bring me peace where the world can not.

Publications and Reviews: Diversions LA 2020 on 99% by Genie David, Art And Cake (2018), Daily Breeze(2018), Art Scene Magazine, May issue (2018) Harper's, HAIR'S HOW Magazine, Art Calendar cover, Art and Living, Studio Visit Magazine (Open Press), WWNorton (college text book), and other. Reviews: Art and Cake, diversions LA,Flavorpill (KB), Boston Globe (Kate McQuaid, L.A. Times (Josep Woodard). I am self-taught but earned my B.A. Degree in art in 2011, after having had a professional art practice since 1992. I love people and the stories their faces tell.

Fairfax High School '71

Self taught artist for 20 years, then returning as an older adult to earn my BA Degree at California State University, Northridge '11
Fine Art

2023 Mash Gallery, Los Angeles
2020, "Women By Women 2020" SOLA Gallery, Inglewood, Curator Sharon Allicotti
2020 "99% 3 person exhibit MASH Gallery, Curator David S Rubin, Downtown LA
2020 Drawn To Dance, Curator Sharon Allicotti in Collab with Heidi Duckler Dance Project postponed
2019 "Art And Democracy Vl, Visual Artists Guild, West Hollywood CA
2019 "For Heaven's Sake", USC Hillel, Curator Sagi Rafael
2019 Side Street Projects Curator Mark Steven Greenfield, Downtown LA
2019 Hebrew Union College "Bread and Salt" Curator Anne Hromadka
2019 Coastline College Art Gallery, "Kitsch In Sync, Curator Bradford Salamon, Newport Beach CA
2019 Visual Institute of Contemporary Art (VICA), "Far And Near", Curator Juri Koll
2018 Torrance Art Museum, Art Residency, Studio Systems ll, Curator Max Presneill
2018 Odyssey ll, Torrance Art Museum
2018 Art In Place, Curator Juri Koll, Long Beach CA
2018 Kamikazis, POST Bendiz Building,Curator Mahara Sinclaire
2018 MuZeumm Gallery "Flashpoint" Curator Georgia Freedman-Harvey
2018 The Hive Gallery, "Zombie Circus, Curator Nathan Cartwright
2018 Retrospective Museum of the San Fernando Valley
2018 LA Artists Guest Series, School of Visual Arts & Humanity
2017 Ave. 50 Studio, Hellmouth, LA, Group Exh...