Cleveland-born and -educated Gary Bukovnik has lived in San Francisco for over 20 years. Bukovnik's art conveys a monumental quality. Primarily using the mediums of watercolor, monotype, and lithograph, Bukovnik fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations, creating floral images of great depth and intensity. _ To produce his graphic works, Bukovnik collaborates with Trillium Graphics, whose owner and master printer, David Salgado, studied at the Tamarind Workshop, formerly in Los Angeles. Among the artists who have printed with Trillium are Joseph Raffael, Mark Adams, Beth Van Hoesen, Nathan Oliveira, and Paul Wonner. This year, Bukovnik has been selected to create a poster for the prestigious, List Collection, which creates posters to commemorate programs at Lincoln Center. Past contributors have included Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Alex Katz, Elizabeth Murray and Donald Sultan. _ Solo exhibitions in 2001 include Paula Brown Gallery, Toledo; Erickson & Elins Gallery, San Francisco; and The Butler Institute for American Art, Youngstown, OH which opens in December. Other recent exhibitions have been organized by Neuhoff Gallery, New York; Ann Jacob Gallery, Atlanta; The Bonfoey Company, Cleveland; 1. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena; Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh; Irving Galleries, Palm Beach; Gallery Kutter, Luxembourg; the Southern Alleghenies Museum, Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Chin Show Cultural Center, Taipei; Takashimaya, Tokyo; the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh; and Brevard Museum of Art, Melbourne, Florida. Among the artwork displayed at the Brevard Museum of Art was a tapestry based on a Bukovnik watercolor and hand-woven in Aubusson, France by Atelier Raymond Picaud. Weavers since the seventeenth century, Atelier Raymond Picaud has been at the forefront of progressive tapestry firms since the 1930s, focusing on images of modern artists such as Alexander Calder, Georges Braque, and Helen Frankenthaler. _ Bukovnik's watercolors and monotypes are the subject of Flowers: Gary Bukovnik Watercolors & Monotypes, published by Harry N. Abrams, New York. This book includes a foreword by James J. White, curator at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation; an interview with the artist by Robert Flynn Johnson, curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; and an essay about Bukovnik and the depiction of flowers in art by Judith Gordon, a San Francisco-based writer. _ 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 Institution, Washington, DC; Butter Institute of American Art, Youngstown; the Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco; Bank of America; AT&T; Neiman-Marcus; and the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles. Bukovnik also donates his art to benefit community and civic organizations, such as the San Francisco Symphony, which since 1982 has commissioned a poster announcing its fall season. Other organizations include the New York Metropolitan Opera; Refugees International, Japan; and Project Open Hand, San Francisco.