Background
Ethnicity:
Father is Fil-Hispanic Chinese and my Mother Spanish Chinese.
Bienvenido was born on June 7, 1962, in Davao City, Philippines.
Bienvenido Bones Banez, jr.
Everybody inspired from Williamsburg Arts & Historical Center!
Me & Founder Museum: Yuko Nii, and Terrance Lindall.
Me & Rich Buckler is an American comics artist
2002
135 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Terrance Lindall in his office.
http://carterkaplan.blogspot.com/2017/02/john-miton-by-bienvenido-bones-banez-jr.html
(From the Author of The Satanic Verses of Bones Banez Fo...)
From the Author of The Satanic Verses of Bones Banez For YOU are the numbers by which the Beast rules. By the numbers of the mortgages you hold and must repay, By the numbers of the interest rate under which you groan. Hangs from the golden thread ...
https://www.biblio.com/book/satanic-verses-bienvenido-bones-banez-jr/d/1041393014
2014
(Emanations 7 : Chorus Pleiades Paperback – December 12, 2...)
Emanations 7 : Chorus Pleiades Paperback – December 12, 2018 by Carter Kaplan (Author) On behalf of International Authors, I am happy to announce the publica...Emanations 7 : Chorus Pleiades Paperback – December 12, 2018 by Carter Kaplan (Author) On behalf of International Authors, I am happy to announce the publication of Emanations: Chorus Pleiades. Every volume of this collaborative project exhibits a distinctive character, and I am looking forward to seeing how people respond to this new variation, which to date is perhaps our most innovative and challenging effort. Kind thanks to Chris Arabadjis and Bienvenido Bones Banez, Jr. for their cover art, and thanks also to Michael Butterworth for his wisdom and advice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VYYxohX_Kk
2018
(Robert J. Wickenheiser & Terrance Lindall, The Milton Pro...)
Robert J. Wickenheiser & Terrance Lindall, The Milton Projects Published on Jun 4, 2018 Robert J. Wickenheiser - That painting included in this hard cover book. https://sites.google.com/site/williamsburgci...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuA_KQRwIhE
(Robert J. Wickenheiser & Terrance Lindall, The Milton Pro...)
Robert J. Wickenheiser & Terrance Lindall, The Milton Projects Published on Jun 4, 2018 Robert J. Wickenheiser - That my painting included in this famous hard cover book and blessing for everyone. https://sites.google.com/site/williamsburgci...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuA_KQRwIhE
(Robert J. Wickenheiser & Terrance Lindall, The Milton Pro...)
Robert J. Wickenheiser & Terrance Lindall, The Milton Projects Published on Jun 4, 2018 Robert J. Wickenheiser - And this artwork watercolor on paper was part of this fantastic art book. https://sites.google.com/site/williamsburgci...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuA_KQRwIhE
(My friend Terrance Lindall -- artist and provocateur -- f...)
My friend Terrance Lindall -- artist and provocateur -- forwarded a recent review by art and literary critic Phillip Somozo of last year's literary anthology Emanations: Third Eye, which in part is praise of the artist "Bienvenido Bones Banez, Jr." and in part is praise of writer and literary critic Carter Kaplan, though also in part critique of them both! I will focus on the positive: Book Review Emanations: Third Eye anthology by International Authors introduces Surrealmageddon of Davao surrealist By Phillip Somozo Surrealmageddon (surreal + Armageddon), a term Banez coined to describe his phantasmagoric vision of the final battle between good and evil, was picked up by books author Carter Kaplan who used it as introductory title for his anthology Emanations: Third Eye, third of a series. This reviewer is motivated by Kaplan's reception of Banez's Surrealmageddon to scrutinize the former's introduction to Emanations: Third Eye. https://www.amazon.com/Emanations-Third-Eye-Carter-Kaplan/dp/1491257083/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397764978&sr=1-1
http://gypsyscholarship.blogspot.com/2014/04/phillip-somozo-on-emanations-third-eye.html
(Robert J. Wickenheiser's wiki: Robert J. Wickenheiser (De...)
Robert J. Wickenheiser's wiki: Robert J. Wickenheiser (December 13, 1942 - November 23, 2015) served as president of Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland from 1977 to 1993 and of St. Bonaventure University in New York from 1994 to 2003. The Maryland State Senate recognized his "exemplary leadership" of Mount St. Mary's when he retired. The first layman to hold the position at St. Bonaventure, he oversaw the university as it implemented a new core curriculum and expanded its University of Ministries, among other achievements before resigning his position during a scandal over the acceptance of an ineligible basketball player. An avid collector of the works of 17th century poet John Milton for decades, Wickenheiser sold his collection to the University of South Carolina in 2006, helping it establish what was declared at that time to be among the largest collections of Milton in the world.
https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/Robert_J._Wickenheiser/
(Bienvenido "Bones" Banez, Jr.'s wiki: Bienvenido "Bones" ...)
Bienvenido "Bones" Banez, Jr.'s wiki: Bienvenido "Bones" Banez, Jr. (born June 7, 1962) is a Filipino surrealist painter. He lives in New York City.
https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/Bienvenido_%22Bones%22_Banez%2C_Jr./
(manations: Third Eye anthology by International Authors i...)
manations: Third Eye anthology by International Authors introduces Surrealmageddon of Davao surrealist BIENVENIDO BONES BANEZ By Phillip Somozo Surrealmageddon (surreal + Armageddon), a term Banez coined to describe his phantasmagoric vision of the final battle between good and evil, was picked up by books author Carter Kaplan who used it as introductory title for his anthology Emanations: Third Eye, third of a series. This reviewer is motivated by Kaplan's reception of Banez's Surrealmageddon to scrutinize the former's introduction to Emanations: Third Eye. Carter Kaplan is an American professor who had taught English and Philosophy for 30 years in many U.S. Colleges and in Scotland. He is a poet and had written a number of novels with philosophical and mythological themes. Describing Banez as "pioneering philosopher of Surrealmageddon," Kaplan considers the Dabawenyo's vision of apocalyptic psychedelia as "a catalytic spec floating in the global crucible of morphing civilizations." What shapes the future, Kaplan rationalizes, is the global consumerist culture and he admits it doesn't seem very bright. Self-destruction, he elaborates, is built-in in the Homo s. sapiens because of greediness which, in the civilized world, is considered "not insanity." Kaplan's introduction, in effect, also concludes his interpretation of the anthology (subtitled Art of Ecstasy and the Ecstasy of Experiment) in the context of collective human thought deciding its own destiny. It is remarkable Kaplan corroborates Banez's cataclysmic semanticism. The union of the terms surreal and Armageddon, a brilliant etymological updating, by Banez, modernized its semantic significance by redefining modernism's pinnacle to which society prophetically (and now affirmed by Kaplan's sound psychosocial arguments) is heading. The term could had been invented by Saint John the Apostle two millennia ago, if only John had knowledge of modern behavioral psychology and social dialectics. Bridging the gap between Prophet John and hermeneutic surrealist Bienvenido "Bones" Banez is artistic evolution. Yet, I am sure not everyone agrees with Kaplan and Banez, not the inventors of artificial life-support systems (e.g. biotech, genetic engineering, transhumanism) who aim to perpetuate human life regardless if they have to alter nature, and the vested corporates who tweaked the nostril of the planetary Tao so that it has been desperately sniffing for the vanishing direction to its future since Modernism dawned. There is more, much more, all of it somewhat obscure, though discernible with some effort, but I've received no website address, so I've nothing to link to. Part of my interest is that some of my poetry appears in the anthology, which can be ordered here. I suppose this is less obscure for me than for some of my readers because I'm familiar with the individuals and their ideas -- and also because I've been reading a bit about "biotech, genetic engineering, [and] transhumanism" lately . . .
https://wahcenter.wixsite.com/encyclopedia-surreal
(My friend Terrance Lindall informed me yesterday that tod...)
My friend Terrance Lindall informed me yesterday that today (New York time), Friday, March 7th, 2014, at 5:30-6:30 PM, in the WAH center (directions), there will be a "Book Release" of The Satanic Verses of Bones Banez as Revealed to Terrance Lindall, in Ten Books ...
http://gypsyscholarship.blogspot.com/2014/03/terrance-lindall-and-bienvenido-bones.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuA_KQRwIhE
artist philosopher Surrealists poet
Ethnicity:
Father is Fil-Hispanic Chinese and my Mother Spanish Chinese.
Bienvenido was born on June 7, 1962, in Davao City, Philippines.
Childhood. Banez finished primary school in 1975 and secondary education in 1979, both at the University of Mindanao in Davao City, during which time he already displayed drawing and painting talent. At age 11, already diagnosed with mild learning disability, he could not speak straight it took time for him to say a single word. When he spoke he would jump in extra effort to express what he meant. Because of this he attracted attention and, oftentimes, sarcastic reaction. Underestimation coming from classmates, peers, and from other people became a regular source of contention; thus, growing up as a child was not easy for him. But despite his speech defect he was a talkative child who asked about everything under the sun, says an older cousin.
Ben soon exhibited an artist’s determination so firm that mockery no longer bothered him. The fountain source of his fortitude was none other than his father, Bienvenido Sr. who firmly believed his son possessed talent that could be honed into extraordinary excellence. He had credibility for saying so because he first took three years of Fine Arts before studying to become a lawyer.
After high school Ben was enrolled at The Learning Center of the Arts, Mindanao’s first school of Fine Arts, also in Davao, to polish his artistic talent. The truism “Father knows best” found perfect significance between the father and son tandem under the circumstances. Bienvenido Sr. brimmed with confidence his special child will turn out to be a great artist. After all, it was from him that Ben inherited his artistic talent. He, therefore, supported his son all the way until his death in 1987 when Ben was already six feet tall.
Banez was born on June 7, 1962, in Davao City, Philippines. He studied at the Learning Center of the Arts (now Ford Academy of the Arts) in that city, where one of his tutors was Victorio C. Edades, Jr. Revisiting the Art of Victorio Edades., M Magazine: Life and Living in Mindanao, Issue No. 2, July 2008, p. 44. Margot Marfori writes: “Edades and Aida Ford encouraged talent to flourish and flower further. Evidence of this is seen in one of the students of the very first group under his tutelage in the Center. Ben Banez, for example, who is now based in New York City was recently conferred as one of the foremost surrealist painters of the world.”
In 2002 he won the Asian Fellowship Painting Competition of the Vermont Studio Center in Vermont, USA. In 2004, Bañez went to New York where he now lives. In 2010, he was included in Lexikon der phantastischen Künstler. Between 2009 and 2014 several drawings and paintings were acquired for the Robert J. WickenheiserJohn Milton collection at the University of South Carolina.
In 2017 a portrait of John Milton was added to the Milton’s Cottage collection, and he was named to the editorial board of Emmanations, a print anthology of poetry, fiction and essay published by International Authors. Honors. In 2016 Banez was named an official full member of the Williamsburg Circle of International Arts and Letters, among several other highly regarded scholars, artists, writers, and performers.
Themes: Banez’s work revolves around the theme “666”, the “reign of evil in the world”, which he expresses through psychedelic depictions of “human and sub-human figures.” To Bañez, “Satan brings color to the world,” which is his interpretation of the felix culpa theodicy. This proposition stems from his strong belief in Christianity and in the “Judeo-Christian metanarrative” where the Devil’s “rebellious power” is prevailing in the world. Using jewel-toned colors, Bañez depicts Evil as beginning to take over as exemplified by the wars, environmental degradation, injustice, and the proliferation of crimes against humanity.
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center. In 1996, Nii founded the not for profit Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (WAH Center) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, which is housed in the Kings County Savings Bank Building in the National Register of Historic Places - a New York City Landmark.
The Satanic Verses by Bienvenido Bones Banez, Jr.
(My friend Terrance Lindall -- artist and provocateur -- f...)
(Emanations 7 : Chorus Pleiades Paperback – December 12, 2...)
2018(From the Author of The Satanic Verses of Bones Banez Fo...)
2014(Robert J. Wickenheiser & Terrance Lindall, The Milton Pro...)
(Robert J. Wickenheiser & Terrance Lindall, The Milton Pro...)
(Robert J. Wickenheiser & Terrance Lindall, The Milton Pro...)
(Bienvenido "Bones" Banez, Jr.'s wiki: Bienvenido "Bones" ...)
(Robert J. Wickenheiser's wiki: Robert J. Wickenheiser (De...)
(manations: Third Eye anthology by International Authors i...)
(My friend Terrance Lindall informed me yesterday that tod...)
By remaining neutral, we are able to speak freely to people of all political persuasions about the good news of God’s Kingdom. We try to show by our words and practices that we rely on God’s Kingdom to solve the world’s problems.—Psalm 56:11.
Since we avoid political divisions, we are united as an international brotherhood. In contrast, religions that meddle in politics divide their members.
Despite being a Surrealists and I am always pray to be a good citizen and humility.
Terrance Lindall (born 1944) is an American artist and the co-director and chief administrator of the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Lindall's illustrations have been published in Heavy Metal, Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella, among others. https://alchetron.com/Terrance-Lindall
Early life and education
The daughter of a steel executive, Nii was born in 1942. For the first several years of her life, she lived in Tokyo, but her family relocated to Hiroshima in 1945, shortly before it was bombed by the United States. She studied (1961–63) English and American Literature at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan. In 1963 she transferred to Macalaster College, St. Paul, Minnesota as a scholarship student, and earned her BFA. in 1965. From 1966 she attended Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, as a fellowship student and earned her Master of Fine Arts in painting in 1969.
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
In 1996, Nii founded the not for profit Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (WAH Center) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, which is housed in the Kings County Savings Bank Building in the National Register of Historic Places - a New York City Landmark.
Honors and awards
In 1998, Howard Golden, then Brooklyn borough president, named Nii Brooklyn’s Women of the Year. In 2001, Governor George Pataki named Nii a "Woman of Excellence, Vision and Courage." https://alchetron.com/Yuko-Nii
