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May 8th, MOTHER’S DAY 3 P.M.

Admission $5

TERRANCE LINDALL, renowned illustrator and scholar,

recites passages from

JOHN MILTON’S PARADISE LOST

Free copy of his full color Paradise Lost Broadside!

https://sites.google.com/site/terrancelindallsparadiselost/home

Also:

Master Surrealist Bienvenido Bones Banez Jr. will play his SATANIC RHAPSODY on our grand piano

“Thrilling…gives you goosebumps!” Audience Member

http://www.welcomebones666artworld.trilogistick.com/  

Special exhibit

On display: the luxury hand embellished Paradise Lost 13 x 19 inch Elephant folio –  fully illustrated and HAND EMBELLISHED by Terrance Lindall, with commentary by the foremost collector of Milton books and illustrations, Dr. Robert J. Wickenheiser. The folio was produced on Museo paper with 1000 dpi 6 color printing, appointed with  23.75 CARAT GOLD LEAF, the most superlative techniques and materials available to our age!

Commentary by Dr. Robert J. Wickenheiser:

Dr. Robert J. Wickenheiser’s Commentary for the Elephant Folio

Terrance Lindall’s Press Release

Epics have been around with us from the beginning of recorded history. They usually involve heroes of prodigious courage and abilities who overcome impossible odds. Sometimes they are tragic characters, as is the case with Satan in Milton’s Paradise Lost. Satan’s fall springs out of his own love of God and a desire to be loved…the desire of a son to be loved by his father. He was once the foremost of God’s archangels and commanded the legions, until one day God announced that there would be another to take Satan’s place as second to God.

 Satan, with envy against the Son of God, could not bear through pride that sight and thought himself impaired. Deep malice thence conceiving, he resolved with all hs legions to dislodge the Throne Supreme Raphael in Milton’s Paradise Lost

The question arises, was it a desire for love, or was it merely damaged pride that caused the fall from Grace. It could be either. It will be for you to determine. Reasoning out the proof of Satan’s ultimate nature as depicted by Milton is a task which has enthralled scholars for hundreds of years!

What epics reveal to us are heroic figures who often bear traits which we ourselves possess, sometimes noble, sometimes flawed…in this tragic case, traits of envy or jealousy, overweening pride, ambition, a desire for love, in the case of Satan, not only love from God but from the multitudes of Heaven itself…You might say he wanted to be the ultimate “Rock Star.” And further, Satan before the fall is a creature of absolute unparalleled beauty, a supreme mind, yet whose reasoning powers are corrupted by envy and anger to that point in which he undertakes what by definition is an impossible task, a mighty task… to overthrow the Monarchy of God Himself, and in the process inventing the cannon. One thinks that on a smaller scale we as mortal humans must also set a an impossible task for ourselves which is to live life with fullest heart, using all of the gifts that God has given, and yet knowing that we, for all we achieve, must die to the world.

Satan is not without redeeming virtues even as he wages war against God. Knowing that he must undertake the ignoble act of corrupting Adam and Eve, God’s new and most beauteous creatures in a New Paradise, he yet waivers at the thought when he first views them…beauteous in the midst of the splendor of the garden:

Oh Hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold! Ah, gentle pair, ye little think how nigh your change approaches, when all these delights will vanish and deliver ye to woe…And should I at your harmless innocence melt, as I do, yet reason, honor and empire with revenge compels me now to do what I should abhor! Satan when he arrives in Paradise

So Satan still retains aspects of angelic nobility (by mortal standards), though he is compelled by his own free will and determination to destroy what is Good in the name of a Deed which he has determined to do as necessary for the greater good of achieving a conquest for the multitudes of now fallen angels he now leads. Here the end justifies the means. It leads to the question of what is good in any absolute sense of the concept. We all know that if Satan were to reason it out, he would yield to the Justice of God and ask forgiveness, but that thing again called pride prevents that. And yet we can admire Satan in that determination, that unbendable will, he possesses. Should we possess that will, there is nothing we could not achieve on earth. It is akin to the will of Adolph Hitler or Osama Bin Laden to sacrifice all for a cause, and even if the cause is flawed, to continue nonetheless, because of pride, an unwillingness to admit the weakness of having been wrong. A greater being would sacrifice pride, but Satan’s angelic reasoning has been corrupted.

Other aspects of Lindall’s yearly presentation of his adaptation of Paradise Lost is his interest in one of the most famous phrases in Milton’s epic when Satan declares …the mind is it’s own place and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. It has long been the contention of Lindall, as well as many philosophers throughout history, that there is no distinction between mind and matter, or phenomenal and noumenal reality. The proof was most clearly stated by George Berkeley in the dictum esse est percipi… To be is to be perceived. In other words, everything is perception. In modern physics, the old notion of a Newtonian billiard ball cosmos has given way to notions of subatomic particles like quarks and charmed particles, thence to the notion that at some point there are only events. That idea delights Lindall who says that physics will ultimately prove his own judgment about the nature of reality. Whether events are predictable is the goal of science. The ontogeny and ontology of the transpiring reality is the realm of philosophy. Essentially the best scientists and mathematicians are philosophers, like John Locke, Liebnitz, Newton and Einstein.

*For a complete discussion of Lindall’s theories, go to “Lindall’s Essay on Epistemological Art”

Terrance Lindall’s surreal/visionary art has graced the covers of numerous books and magazines and has been exhibited at many galleries and museums over the past 30 years. Here are some of the things that have been said of his art”It is nice to know there is a latter day Bosch around”– Dr. Leo Steinberg, Art Critic¨”Terrance Lindall’s fanciful illustrations are bound to arouse response & provoke thought in the may persons interested in PARADISE LOST & its subjects & in surreal illustration generally” ¨–Professor Thomas Clayton, University of Minnesota Department of English¨” Clearly avoiding the view that Pop imagery is inherently a sign of trauma, Terry Lindall employs the cartoon elements of style with a charming and often unnerving directness and simplicity, frequently aimed at causing a trauma all his own. This is particularly the case with his illustrations of Milton’s Paradise Lost, with which he reaches a hyper-intensified and nearly hysterical verve. ” ¨–Mark Daniel Cohen, Critic for Review Magazine and NY Arts Magazine¨” The high water mark in the Golden Age of this uniquely American Art form..” ¨–James Kalm, NY Arts Magazine¨” Surreal nightmare…DNA seems to have gone berserk” ¨–The New York Art World Magazine Nov. 1999¨” …since I was a teenager back in 1982… I’ve considered Terrance Lindall one of the globe’s greatest artists. My particular favorite is his intense adaptation of PARADISE LOST, which never fails to instill a pervasive dread in my mind.”¨– Greg Fasolino 1997, “Natural insanity” Art Alternative Magazine 1996¨” …eerie, magical, dreamlike, devastating, jarring…Lindall’s illustrative style is magnificent!” ¨– Julie Simmons, Editor in Chief, Heavy Metal Magazine 1980¨” Lindall’s use of color & detail to acheive effect, his dramatic compositions, but most of all his totally unique vision make him a new wave artist to be reckoned with.”¨– Louise Jones, Senior Editor, Warren Communications 1980¨” Lindall’s striking and unique visionary fantasy art is breaking new ground in the field”¨–David Hartwell, Senior Editor POCKET BOOKS, Simon & Schuster 1980¨” My reward for the purchase of a Lindall masterwork has been a cover that draws raves. It is a very valuable addition to my collection of fine art.”¨– Stuart David Schiff, twice winner of the World Fantasy Award & editor of the acclaimed WHISPERS anthologies¨¨The magazines CREEPY, EERIE, VAMPIRELLA, HEAVY METAL AND MARVEL’S EPIC, and Rod Serling’s TWILIGHT ZONE, for which he produced some of the most dazzling art of an era, are now highly sought after collectibles. The work he did for these magazines is part of the history of an important American art form which has influenced many young persons and would-be artists growing up in America and around the world.

Apart from being an artist, Terrance Lindall has a background in philosophy and has been active in the intellectual realms of the Williamsburg Brooklyn art community over the past few years. His recent essay THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL MOVEMENT IN THE ARTS (assesses the new artistic trends in the contemporary art world and it’s context in new thinking about fractal geometry, quantum mechanics, historical will, and epistemological and analytic traditions. His show APOCALYPSE 1999 was the most lavish art production seen in Williamsburg to date with over 125 artists from around the world and incorporating many provocative musical and theatrical productions. In SEPTEMBER 2003 Terrance Lindall produced BRAVE DESTINY, the largest gathering of living surreal/visionay artists from around the world with a Grand Surrealist Ball! wahcenter.net/exhibits/2003/surreal/

In 2008 Terrance produced the world’s largest ever Milton festival, which was covede by a major article in the New York Times and major papers around the  world.

Terrance Lindall is also a builder of institutions such as the Greenwood Museum in upper New York State, and has worked with Yuko Nii in developing the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center which has achieved international recognition

 Left: “Atmospheric Pressure” reception Right Bienvenido Banez receives grant from Yuko Nii

The last month was especially rewarding for the WAH Center as well as it’s artists and supporters. After a superb exhibit of young Japanese artists that included a dynamic performance production, Yuko Nii received the Pratt Institute Community Achievement Award at the prestigious University Club in Manhattan in recognition for her work in developing the WAH Center and making it an effective community institution that has received local regional and international recognition.

Meanwhile the WAH Center’s own Brittany Natale was working vigorously on selecting artists for a major exhibit she was preparing for at the WAH Center in April. Brittany’s exhibit, which debuted last Friday, is called Atmospheric Pressure, a young artists collection. The artists were mostly from the Bushwick artists’ colony that has superseded Williamsburg as the new center of emerging artists in Brooklyn. The reception was thronged as you can see in the photo. We were delighted to make the connection to that energetic neighborhood. We were astounded at the quality of the art and were delighted that many pieces sold. The Yuko Nii Foundation also acquired some pieces. This was Brittany’s first attempt at curating after attending the Fashion Institute of Technology. The excellence of the exhibit suggest that she has a great future in the arts.

Meanwhile the Yuko Nii Foundation gave out its first grant since being founded a couple of years ago. The awardee was Bienvenido Bones Banez, a WAH Center artist who is well represented in the YNF Collections. Yuko in giving the award stated “Your art derives fresh new hermeneutical understandings in axiological philosophy as viewed through humanity’s struggle of “being and becoming.”

At the same time, Bien presented the YNF with a major painting that he had done in 1984 based on his 666 world view philosophy. The gift was a joint gift from himself and Prof. Aida Rivera Ford of Ford Academy of the Arts/Philippines Women’s College’s Davao City where the painting had been kept until recently.

Yuko also told Bien “We appreciate your most generous donation of your numerous works to the Yuko Nii Foundation’s permanent collection, and some day we hope to have a special on-going exhibition that show your various stages in the development of your vision.”

Terrance Lindall, a proponent of hermeneutical surrealism, said after seeing Bien’s masterpiece, “This is one of the greatest paintings I have seen in my lifetime. I believe Bien ranks as one of the foremost surrealists living or dead and his achhievements will stand alongside all great artists down through history.”

Below: Bien’s great work

Saturday, January 26 – Sunday, February 24, 2013

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 26, 4–6 pm

Coordinated by Mary Westring, Curated by Yuko Nii

 

Participants in the 14th Annual Salon Show:

Stephen Auslender, Ayako Bando, Bienvenido Bones Banez, Carole Barlowe, Robert Bassal, Doreen Beck, Olivia Beens, Jeffery Berman, Richard Bigelow, Tomek Bogacki, Benjamin Bohnsack, Beryl Brenner, Orin Buck, Elizabeth Myers Castonguay, Laura Conliffe, Suzanne Ives Cunningham, Chris Dunne, Val Dyshlov, Carol F. Flueckiger, Sandra Forrest, Carmen Frank, Troy Frantz, Irene Gillman, Monique K. Given, Susan G. Hammond, Richard W. Hatter, Natsuko Hattori, Christine Herman, Aimee Hertog, Barbara Herzfeld, Halona Hilbertz, Miho Hiranouchi, Tom Hooper, Sarah Horvat, Natalia Isaenco, Susan Jacobs, Sam Jungkurth, Hide Kawabata, Mildred Kaye, Suprina Kenny, Mart Klein, Yuko Kondo, Konel, Frank Krasicki, Natalie Koren Kropf, Estelle Levy, Terrance Lindall, Drew Maillard, Jack McWhorter, Margo Mead, Gail Mitchell, Walter Lynn Mosley, Yumiko Nolan, Carmen Porfido, Jennifer Primosch, Tina Psoinos, Cheryl Safren, Mira Satryan, Julie Joy Saypoff, Larry Scaturro, Barbara Schiller, Gloria Schuster, Tasneem Shahzad, Joel Simpson, Linda Smith, Larry Szycher, Agnieszka Szyfter, Muhammad Tufail, Jania Vanderwerff, Jeff Watts, Courtney Lee Weida, Yookan Westfield, Mary Westring, Takuya Yamauchi

In the First Floor Galleries

One person show by Heungmo Kim – “To The Eyes”

 PRESENTATION AND PERFORMANCE by Salon members AFTER THE RECEPTION, 6-7 PM

“Satan’s Peculiar Grace”

discussion led by Terrance Lindall – with a Satan inspired trance meditation piano performance  by Bienvenido Bones Banez
Press Release: http://sites.google.com/site/terrancelindallsparadiselost/home/paradise-lost-project-annual-newsletter

Bienvenido Bones Banez will perform on Piano. Bien is an exceptional extempore piano player. However, he is remarkably different. He performs in a trance-like state transported to another dimension while he plays “Satanic Themes.” Bien has a saying, “Satan gives color to the world!”

14th WAH Salon Opening Scenes by Tasneem ShahzadFeb 8, 2013 photos: 83	14th WAH Salon Opening by Joel SimpsonFeb 8, 2013 photos: 20	14th WAH Salon Opening by Julie Joy SaypoffFeb 8, 2013 photos: 29

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Satan’s Peculiar Grace

(Suggested by the title of Professor Steve Fallon’s “Milton’s Peculiar Grace”)

Presentation and discussion by Terrance lindall

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrance_Lindall

With a Satan inspired trance meditation piano performance

by Bienvenido Bones Banez

http://www.welcomebones666artworld.trilogistick.com/

January 26, 2013 6-7 PM

Suggested Admission $5

 

My artist friend Bienvenido Bones Banez always says “Satan gives color to the world.” Indeed, in art and literature stories of trial, sacrifice, desire, achievement in the face of obstacles, war, love, hate…all these things make for great poetry, great art and excitement in our lives. Imagine a world where there is no hate, no enemies to overcome, plenty of good food, no need to invent anything to make life more comfortable. We could simply live as vegetables.

In the West we have endowed Satan’s character as a part of our cultural heritage for 5000 or more years. And he is a concept in all human cultures because he embodies, or gives some tangible form to human misery. And yet he is also associated with pleasurable things too, such as the idea of eternal life, lustful delights, and carnal pleasures. Is not pleasure in and of itself a good? One can imagine Plato’s Socrates’ answer to this. The Meno is always a pleasure to consult as that wily old philosopher dances around the question “What is good?”

Literature and art are fecund with the character of Satan. In Faust he inspires a scholar, who, in pursuit of knowledge, seems to be ensnared. In Balzac’s The Fatal Skin, Benét’s Devil and Daniel Webster, and Stoker’s Dracula, we see that Evil incarnate has a peculiar, even attractive grace. Why are stories of these Satanic characters MORE interesting than stories about goodly characters? Milton had that problem. Paradise Lost was far more interesting than Paradise Regained and Dante’s Inferno far more compelling than Dante’s Paradiso. You can see at the WAH Center on January 26th where we discuss this issue one of the latest works of art revolving around an oily and persuasive Satan. They are my own illustrations for Horace Jeffery Hodges BOTTOMLESS BOTTLE OF BEER that was just published two weeks ago. Indeed you will see that the devil therein has a peculiar grace as he attempts to ensnare a guileless naif. See a sample of the book on ISSUU:

 

THE BOTTOMLESS BOTTLE OF BEER

So, is Satan good or evil? He is always enticing us, creating desire where there was none before. He then puts obstacles in our path. He makes us compete for scarce goods of the earth and for love. He makes us want to dominate others so we can be secure in having everything we need or could want. He causes the adrenaline high and feeling of achievement. But he also juxtaposes our moments of self-satisfaction and pleasure with the pain of loss, anger at those who put obstacles in our path, and ultimately, fear of death and the loss of all those things we wanted to possess. All of this is rich subject matter for painting, poetry, literature and music.  If there is a patron saint of the arts, it is Satan himself. So Bienvenido is right to admire him!

There is in religious philosophy the concept of “the fortunate fall.” “O happy fault that merited such and so great a Redeemer.” So at Christmas we must thank Satan for causing the necessity of bringing Christ to be be born into our world to redeem us from the wickedness that Satan inspires in us. This is all very peculiar.

In my 20’s I started writing and illustrating what I thought was a very important philosophical tale called “The Beast.” It was about the idea that all of the bestial passions we possess are a necessity to the enjoyment and fulfillment of life. In the story The Beast is debating with a saint. I guess it is sort of like the nightmare of the discussion with the devil in The Brothers Karamazov. One cannot win a debate with a Jesuit or the devil, of course.

In any case, in this world we must accommodate ourselves. If we want to live, we must compete for control over goods or submit ourselves to control by others as tools or slaves for the production of goods for others. The Devil is in every major dilemma. As an example of our dilemma, if it is evil to kill another person, is it not good to kill someone to protect your family from someone trying to kill them?

 

Abandonment

Abandonment and rejection and the extreme mental pain caused by such are themes rife throughout the Bible. Adam and Eve experience rejection and banishment. Cain experiences rejection and banishment.  Christ experiences rejection and subsequent crucifixion and even feels abandoned on the cross, saying “Oh Lord, why hast Thou forsaken me?” Perhaps the greatest pain for anyone is that generated by abandonment or rejection.

What about Satan? What were the characteristics of his personage that caused rebellion? Like Jesus, Satan wanted the love of God. He wanted to be God’s foremost archangel, but God created his Son to replace him, so Satan became enraged. Unlike Christ, Satan rebelled and Sin and Death were engendered.

 

Evil is a Necessity

In philosophy there is something called the Ontological Proof of God. The argument was posited by St. Anselm of Canterbury. However, one can also see suggestions of it in Plato’s Theory of Forms. But what I contend is that it leads to  the necessity of evil. See my discussion on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DovgzhFuwNA

 

Is Satan a Hypomaniac?

Hypomania is a mood state characterized by persistent and pervasive elevated (euphoric) or irritable mood. Individuals in a hypomanic state have a decreased need for sleep, are extremely outgoing and competitive, and have a great deal of energy. Those with hypomanic systems are fully functioning, and are often actually more productive than ordinary individuals. Hypomania is sometimes credited with increasing creativity and productive energy. A significant number of people with creative talents have reportedly experienced hypomania and hypomania may account for Satan’s ability to create concepts of Sin and Rebellion, unknown in Heaven.  Classic symptoms of hypomania include euphoria, a flood of ideas, endless energy, and a desire and drive for success. Satan, having oriented his existence and sense of self worth around successes and the unimpeded First Love of God (before the Son was created) as indicated by his position of Foremost Archangel after God, strove tirelessly for independence and self-definition. Satan greatly valued his own achievements, measuring them based on his own internalized goals, not those set by God. His criteria of whether he was successful were often more stringent than those set by others. However, the unreasonably high standards set Satan up for feelings of failure, disappointment, guilt and self-blame.  Satan translated that into rage.

The maintenance of independence and freedom from control by others is also important to hypomaniacs. Thus, the Son having been placed over him in authority, such that he had to receive orders from Him, was anathema to Satan.

Even in Hell Satan’s hypomania persists in a flood of ideas, endless energy, and a desire and drive for success. His nobility persists. Because his followers having suffered, he strives to prove his worth to them. Satan’s peculiar grace!

A fabulous evening! Bien started off with an intriguing and hair raising Satanic Piano Free Rhapsody. I followed with an extempore lecture on why Satan has graces, Id est, he is God’s hoe, weeding out the unfit, and because of him there was the “fortunate fall.” He actually loved God and wanted God’s love so much he became angered at being replaced by the Son. He is loyal to his followers and so much admired in Heaven that he took 1/3 of the angels with him against God Himself. I spoke of Satan’s discovery of a greater depth in his own self after he was vanquished to find on the flaming pool of fire that he still possessed a remarkable “unconquerable will” and was though that able to rise up and rally his troops. I spoke of Bien’s concept of Satan giving color to the world, inspiring artists and writers of all generations. .And more. I threw in a lot of quotes from Paradise Lost describing the war in heaven, the rout, and Satan’s meeting with his progeny at the gates of Hell. And I spoke of Milton’s defense of free speech. Afterward Bien played an even more exotic and inspiring Satanic Free Rhapsody while speaking out phrases and words like “666…we are born into the world, we live, we die… Satan, etc.”

Here’s the Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORFxZF5mfPU

The audience was mesmerized! We should go on tour!

 

Terrance

By Phillip Somozo

Meet the Filipino surrealist painter who is specially honored by the man who resurrected the greatest classic English epic poem Paradise Lost in this modern age.

The name of New York-based Bienvenido Bones Banez Jr., originally of Davao, was written on an artist’s palette, painted in flaming colors, at the very top of the border of a plate titled “Pandemonium” in the book considered by a Miltonia collector as one of the greatest printed and hand-embellished books ever produced. Pandemonium is a tribute to historical architecture, sculpture, and painting,

The huge book (size 13 x 19 inches) is the elephant folio of Terrance Lindall, the most passionate, prolific, and widely-read illustrator of John Milton’s eternal masterpiece.  It contains fourteen full-page, full-color, 1000 dpi artwork prints, with 23.75-carat gold- leaf edging.

Miltonia collector Robert J. Wickenheiser, Ph.D., built up over a thirty-five year period his Miltoniana of more than 6,000 volumes, including more than sixty Paradise Lost first editions. Its special focus on illustrated editions makes it one of the great Milton collections in the world. It was exhibited during the time Lindall turned over a copy (one of only two) of his elephant folio to the Yuko Nii Foundation at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in New York City.

Dr. Wickenheiser is a retired president of St. Bounaventure University in New York. Earlier he also had served as president for sixteen years of St. Mary’s University, Maryland. During a lecture he describes Lindall “Without a doubt, Terrance Lindall is the foremost illustrator of Paradise Lost in our age, comparable to other great illustrators through the ages, and someone who has achieved a place of high stature for all time.”

He purchased Lindall’s remaining Paradise Lost elephant folio and all three of Banez paintings also exhibited in the same venue.

Bienvenido Bones Banez, Jr., migrated to America in 2002 and became acquainted with Lindall when the latter invited him to display a work in the Brave Destiny, the world’s largest-ever exhibition of Surrealism held also in Brooklyn’s WAH Center in 2003.

Lindall was then emerging, unofficially, as Andre Breton’s replacement as spokesman of the surrealist movement. After Brave Destiny Lindall capped his passion for organizing Surrealism’s largest-ever convergences when he gave John Milton the renaissance poet’s biggest-ever posthumous birthday bash in 2007 (his 400th), dubbed as the Grand Paradise Lost Costume Ball. Both affairs averaged an attendance of close to five hundred surrealists from the world over.
Lindall, in interview, speaks of Pandemonium and Banez: “This plate is a tribute to architecture, construction, sculpture, painting, etc. Note that the Seraphim ????????? in the upper corners have paintbrushes in one hand and flames in the other. They are painting with fire.  God wrote the Ten Commandments with His finger in fire. Bienvenido’s style I call “Fiero Electric” because he recognizes the divine principle of creation is fire and color, and “Fiero Electric” because of Bien’s striking juxtaposition of primary colors! (He) discovered my philosophy of surrealism and my interest in Paradise Lost and recognized an absolute parallel in our thinking…I have especially honored Bienvenido in this plate by writing his name on the artist’s palette at the very top, the palette of flaming colors.”
Lindall’s passion for Paradise Lost began in 1980 when he did its illustrations for Heavy Metal Magazine. Three years later, in 1983, he synopsized the book artistically. Since then he made limited editions by illustrating the book in various sizes and forms: the quarto editions (5 ¾ x 7 5/8 inches), the “Gold-Illuminated Paradise Lost Scroll,” (17 x 50 inches) and “The Paradise Lost Altar Piece” (Oil on Wood), consisting of two 24 x 40 inches wooden panels. In 2011he finished his first elephant folio and the following year, the second one.
Bones-Banez has had four one-person shows in New York and one in Vermont. He had participated in at least ten group exhibitions in the same country and one in the (Society for Art of Imagination} Phantasten Museum Wien of Vienna, Austria. His name and profile appear along with surrealism greats Salvador Dali, William Blake, Ernst Fuchs, H.R. Giger and Hieronymus Bosch in the Lexicon Surreal, literally a dictionary of surrealism, authored by well-known Austrian publicist Gerhard Habarta.

Bienvenido Bones Banez, Jr. will be a featured artist in the (WAH Center’s (Williamsburg Art & Historical Center’s) summer exhibits. The WAH Center will bring out for exhibit what Terrance Lindall calls “the greatest visionary fantastic painting ever done, Banez’s “My Warlock Dream-666.” The WAH Center will be open the evening of June 2, 2012 to open the annual White Elephant sale and the gallery will also be pen to  show Banez’s work.

“Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play on the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?” John Milton

“’Bienvenido Bones Banez, Jr.”’ is a Filipino surrealist painter born in Davao City in the southern island of Mindanao, the Philippines, on June 7, 1962. Having suffered from mild childhood autism and attention deficiency disorder, he became a fine example for parents with special children as he rose to comparative international prominence when he was counted in as one of early 21st century’s greatest living surrealists by Terrance Lindall, president and executive director of the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in New York.

 

Overview

 

College Years

 

At The Learning Center of the Arts (now Ford Academy of the Arts) Ben came under the watchful eyes of national artist Victorio C. Edades, Jr. (now deceased), who, along with school president Aida Rivera-Ford, was the soul behind the establishment of the arts institution.

Later, Ben became associate professor of Fine Arts in his college alma mater and at the Philippine Women’s College-Davao which, following the success of the Ford Academy, had opened its own Fine Arts department.

Ben began to participate in the annual competition launched by America’s largest international artist community, the Vermont Studio Center based in Vermont, USA. Ben complied. After two tries he won first place in said competition and, by October 2002, flew all-expense paid to the USA for his grand prize. [http://books.google.com/books?id=elZCg0E6eWgC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=bienvenido+bones+banez+jr+lexikon-surreal&source=bl&ots=uiXcwSaHpk&sig=s5ymIJIAFCKLvVDduhKlCMCwe5s&hl=en&ei=BxTYTun5LsTy0gHiuMDEDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBzgo#v=onepage&q&f=false]

 

American Period

 

Bienvenido Bones Banez, Jr., spent two months of artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT., October and November of 2002, as main part of his prize. There He also had a one-person exhibition in the community’s Red Mill Gallery. After his VSC stint, he applied for working permit and tutored special children in California. In 2004 he proceeded to New York.

 

The Thematic Focus of the 666 Art World

 

Ben desired to see the Antichrist with admiration because of his strong belief in Almighty God, as told by Judeo-Christian metanarrative about the Devil’s rebellious power dominating over the world. Ben claimed that when he was younger he had been witness to a supernatural phenomenon where a possessed woman levitated from bed as Bible-bearing exorcists swarmed around in futility. Conversion that very moment became irreversible for him. The irony however was he began to see the Devil’s work all around. What his brain saw activated latent receptors through his being and expressed as forms and colors that later evolved with masterful rendition on canvases. Lucifer for Ben was real and became a spontaneous subject for his compositions.

With striking colors he shifts viewers’ consciousness out of the ordinary; then, as their eyes focus on details, confronts them with guilt, horror, and fear, astounding them along the process, something like a kind of astral mallet, if there were such a thing, stunned their minds. Ben felt he and the Antichrist were somehow destined to meet each other in human form. Searching nooks and corners of the city, Ben one day stepped inside the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in Brooklyn, New York.

 

The Terrance Lindall Association

 

At the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Ben met Terrance Lindall, the organizer of the world renowned Brave Destiny exhibit in 2003 and a John Milton scholar and illustrator of Paradise Lost.

Ben’s Warlock Dreams was exhibited in the Brave Destiny exhibit in 2003 [http://www.wahcenter.net/exhibits/2003/surreal/BD_artists.html] Ben was the only Filipino featured in Milton’s world’s largest ever celebration for John Milton’s 400th birthday, the 2008 Grand Paradise Lost Costume Ball and Exhibition, organized by Lindall with one of Milton’s descendents Clive Milton present.

 

Selected Exhibitions

 

Brave Destiny,”Brave Destiny”[http://www.wahcenter.net/exhibits/2003/surreal/] 2003

Around the Coyote Winter Arts Festival. 2003, Chicago IL. USA

Paradise Lost Festival and Ehibit Celebrating Milton’s 400th Birthday, 2008 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n40CoySmS94&feature=related][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMQZNMTBRjI&feature=user]

Fifty Year Fantastic, The Society for Art of Imagination, United Kingdom, London, 2010 [http://www.artofimagination.org/]

International Surrealist Show, 2006, 2008 [http://www.surrealismnow.com/]

Selected Contemporary Works From The Permanent Collection, PART 2 (2002-Present), Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA[http://wahcenter.net/exhibits/2009/collection2/]

A Peaceful Aftrenoon Birthday Toast for Terrance Lindall & Yuko Nii

Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA

[http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154258231279742]

WAH Salon Art Club, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, 2002, Johnson, Vermont, USA [http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org/vsc-galleries/]

Mark Gallery, 1993, Davao City, Philippines

Victoria Gallery,Victoria Plaza, Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines

April 1984, Ford Academy of the Arts, 1984, Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines

WAH Salon Art Club, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011[http://www.wahcenter.net/salon/]

Amarin Café, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

 

Reviews and Publications

 

Paradise Lost Elephant Folio, 2011 [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrance_Lindall#The_Paradise_Lost_Elephant_Folio]

LEXIKON-SURREAL (Gerhard Habarta), Encyclopedia of Fantastic & Surrealistic & Symbolist & Visionary Artists, 2009, Internationales Archiv Fantastischer Kunstler

[http://www.lexikon-surreal.com]

 

WHO’S WHO in VISUAL ART 2010-2011, 2010, Art Domain Whois Verlag, Leipzig

[http://www.amazon.com/Whos-Who-Visual-Art-v-2010-2011/dp/3981347404]

WHAT’S NEW IN THE SURREAL WORLD (Terrance Lindall), Art & Antiques Magazine, /March 2006/ [http://www.kellynewcomer.com/pdf/0603Surrealism_Lindall.pdf ]

VISIONARY ART YEARBOOK 2010-201, By Otto Rapp, [http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1732179]

‘’INDEX OF PAINTERS & SCULPTORS BIOGRAPHY & WORKS AROUND THE WORLD’’[http://www.settemuse.it/pittori_index/B05.htm]

PANANAW-2 Book of Mindanao Artists 2000, Philippine Journal of Visual Art

DAVAO HARVEST –TWO / 2008, Edited by: Ricardo M. de Ungria & Tita Lacambra Ayala, National Commission for Culture and the Arts

CROSS BREED & ÉMIGRÉ, VISUAL FLUX 200, Documentation Project of National Commission Culture & Arts

 

 

The Terrance Lindall Association: Ben’s Warlock Dreams was exhibited in the Brave Destiny exhibit in 2003 [http://www.wahcenter.net/exhibits/2003/surreal/BD_artists.html] Ben was the only Filipino featured in Milton’s world’s largest ever celebration for John Milton’s 400th birthday, the 2008 Grand Paradise Lost Costume Ball and Exhibition, organized by Lindall with one of Milton’s descendents Clive Milton present.

http://www.tonicbooks.com/post/2011/12/03/Bienvenido-%E2%80%9CBones%E2%80%9D-Banez-Jr-The-Terrance-Lindall-Association.aspx

“’Bienvenido Bones Banez, Jr.”’ is a Filipino surrealist painter born in Davao City in the southern island of Mindanao, the Philippines, on June 7, 1962. Bien rose to comparative international prominence when he was counted in as the greatest living Filipino surrealist by Terrance Lindall[http://www.oovrag.com/gallery/gallery2011a-banez.shtml], president and executive director of the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in New York.

 

Overview

 

College Years

 

At The Learning Center of the Arts (now Ford Academy of the Arts) Ben came under the watchful eyes of national artist Victorio C. Edades, Jr. (now deceased), who, along with school president Aida Rivera-Ford, was the soul behind the establishment of the arts institution.

 

Later, Ben became associate professor of Fine Arts in his college alma mater and at the Philippine Women’s College-Davao which, following the success of the Ford Academy, had opened its own Fine Arts department.

 

Ben began to participate in the annual competition launched by America’s largest international artist community, the Vermont Studio Center based in Vermont, USA. Ben complied. After two tries he won first place in said competition and, by October 2002, flew all-expense paid to the USA for his grand prize. [http://books.google.com/books?id=elZCg0E6eWgC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=bienvenido+bones+banez+jr+lexikon-surreal&source=bl&ots=uiXcwSaHpk&sig=s5ymIJIAFCKLvVDduhKlCMCwe5s&hl=en&ei=BxTYTun5LsTy0gHiuMDEDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBzgo#v=onepage&q&f=false]

 

American Period

 

Bienvenido Bones Banez, Jr., spent two months of artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT., October and November of 2002, as main part of his prize. There He also had a one-person exhibition in the community’s Red Mill Gallery. After his VSC stint, he applied for working permit and tutored special children in California. In 2004 he proceeded to New York.

 

The Thematic Focus of the 666 Art World

 

The theme of all of Bien’s work is the “World of 666” focusing on Satan being “Perfect in Prettiness.” [http://www.welcomebones666artworld.trilogistick.com/]

 

Ben desired to see the Antichrist with admiration because of his strong belief in Almighty God, as told by Judeo-Christian metanarrative about the Devil’s rebellious power dominating over the world[https://sites.google.com/site/internationalsurrealism/home/new-international-surrealists-of-the-21st-century/bienvenido-bones-banez-jr].

 

Terrance Lindall categorizes Bien’s work as Fiero Electric because of his striking juxtaposition of primary colors. [http://www.welcomebones666artworld.trilogistick.com/index.php?id=event&item=21]

 

The Terrance Lindall Association

 

At the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Ben met Terrance Lindall, the organizer of the world renowned Brave Destiny exhibit in 2003 and a John Milton scholar and illustrator of Paradise Lost.

 

Ben’s Warlock Dreams was exhibited in the Brave Destiny exhibit in 2003 [http://www.wahcenter.net/exhibits/2003/surreal/BD_artists.html] Ben was the only Filipino featured in Milton’s world’s largest ever celebration for John Milton’s 400th birthday, the 2008 Grand Paradise Lost Costume Ball and Exhibition, organized by Lindall with one of Milton’s descendents Clive Milton present.

 

Selected Exhibitions

 

Brave Destiny,”Brave Destiny”[http://www.wahcenter.net/exhibits/2003/surreal/] 2003

 

Around the Coyote Winter Arts Festival. 2003, Chicago IL. USA

 

Paradise Lost Festival and Ehibit Celebrating Milton’s 400th Birthday, 2008 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n40CoySmS94&feature=related][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMQZNMTBRjI&feature=user]

 

Fifty Year Fantastic, The Society for Art of Imagination, United Kingdom, London, 2010 [http://www.artofimagination.org/]

 

International Surrealist Show, 2006, 2008 [http://www.surrealismnow.com/]

 

Selected Contemporary Works From The Permanent Collection, PART 2 (2002-Present), Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA[http://wahcenter.net/exhibits/2009/collection2/]

 

A Peaceful Aftrenoon Birthday Toast for Terrance Lindall & Yuko Nii

 

Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA

 

[http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154258231279742]

 

WAH Salon Art Club, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

 

Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, 2002, Johnson, Vermont, USA [http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org/vsc-galleries/]

 

Mark Gallery, 1993, Davao City, Philippines

 

Victoria Gallery,Victoria Plaza, Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines

 

April 1984, Ford Academy of the Arts, 1984, Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines

 

WAH Salon Art Club, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011[http://www.wahcenter.net/salon/]

 

Amarin Café, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

 

Reviews and Publications

 

Paradise Lost Elephant Folio, 2011 [http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrance_Lindall#The_Paradise_Lost_Elephant_Folio]

 

LEXIKON-SURREAL (Gerhard Habarta), Encyclopedia of Fantastic & Surrealistic & Symbolist & Visionary Artists, 2009, Internationales Archiv Fantastischer Kunstler

 

[http://www.lexikon-surreal.com]

 

 

WHO’S WHO in VISUAL ART 2010-2011, 2010, Art Domain Whois Verlag, Leipzig

 

[http://www.amazon.com/Whos-Who-Visual-Art-v-2010-2011/dp/3981347404]

 

WHAT’S NEW IN THE SURREAL WORLD (Terrance Lindall), Art & Antiques Magazine, /March 2006/ [http://www.kellynewcomer.com/pdf/0603Surrealism_Lindall.pdf ]

 

VISIONARY ART YEARBOOK 2010-201, By Otto Rapp, [http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1732179]

 

‘’INDEX OF PAINTERS & SCULPTORS BIOGRAPHY & WORKS AROUND THE WORLD’’[http://www.settemuse.it/pittori_index/B05.htm]

 

PANANAW-2 Book of Mindanao Artists 2000, Philippine Journal of Visual Art

 

DAVAO HARVEST –TWO / 2008, Edited by: Ricardo M. de Ungria & Tita Lacambra Ayala, National Commission for Culture and the Arts

 

CROSS BREED & ÉMIGRÉ, VISUAL FLUX 200, Documentation Project of National Commission Culture & Arts

 

The Thematic Focus of the 666 Art World: The theme of all of Bien’s work is the “World of 666” focusing on Satan being “Perfect in Prettiness.” [http://www.welcomebones666artworld.trilogistick.com/]

 

http://www.tonicbooks.com/post/2011/12/03/Bienvenido-%E2%80%9CBones%E2%80%9D-Banez-Jr-The-Terrance-Lindall-Association.aspx