Bio Gary Bukovnik's most recent solo exhibitions have spanned the United States and Tokyo. His work is represented in diverse public and private collections, such as the Brooklyn Museum; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Chicago Museum of Art; the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; and the Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco. Reflection Live flowers evoke a strong response and provide me with a constant source of inspiration. I think I paint flowers partly because they are taboo. But more, I paint flowers because there's infinite variety in nature. To understand the structure of a flower is relatively easy. Learning how to look, that's an artist's job. I then combine this with my innate romanticism while simultaneously sidestepping the maudlin. I work with flowers in different ways. Many times, I attempt to expand a precisely executed image until it becomes an abstraction of the flower's essence. What pleases me most is when the result reflects both exactitude and intense observation.