Silo

Vito Bonanno

Contact us for pricing

Vito Bonanno's art is a mirrorintohis inner being. His art resembles the multi-layered, chaotic thought process of his mind where images, thoughts, and words float around in a bumper-car like world, crashing and speeding in all directions. They rarely parkintoa memory garage to be taken out only when wanted, but instead barge their way around the crowded streets of his mind, all fighting to be in front of the line. Bonanno finds relief from these visual intrusions by putting them down onto canvas until layers are added over layers, sometimes obliterating the entire drawing underneath, other times allowing some of the underdrawings and the emotions they evoke topeek through.

Prints are produced on demand on either mounted canvas, acrylic plexi, or giclee fine art paper in a variety of sizes here in the United States. High-quality print reproductions for your home or office designed by artists living with homelessness or disabilities.

Contact ArtLifting for larger size options.
product size
Framing Options
none
black-frame
natural-frame
white-frame
Matting

Contact us to purchase

Vito Bonanno (he/him/his)

Old Saybrook, CT

Vito Bonanno, based out of Madison, Connecticut, is an established and prolific artist and has had artwork exhibited in galleries, art shows and museums across the country. He has exhibited in solo exhibitions at Spectrum Miami during Art Basel in Miami, FL, Umbrella Arts Gallery, NYC and Akus Gallery, Willimantic, CT. His numerous group exhibitions include a sold-out exhibition at Metro Curates, NYC in 2014, Art Expo NY, Love Art Gallery, CT,  Art Access Studio, Ohio,  DADD Showcase, Boston, MA, The Outsider Art Fair, NY, VSA Arts, Washington D.C,  and Intuit Outsider Art Fair, Chicago.

Mr. Bonanno was diagnosed with PDD/Autism just before his 4th birthday. Because he was language delayed, his parents and teachers developed strategies that tapped into his high visual acuity, utilizing storyboard styles to relay academic and social information. The storyboard grid remains prominent in his work and studio preparation today and is a poignant reminder of a boy who was trapped in his own mind.

Due to a lack of accessible art education programs for college age adults with autism and other similar neuro-diversities, Mr. Bonanno began private art classes at Creative Arts Workspace in New Haven in 2006 and has continued his formal training via private instruction from a variety of formally trained artists. Through the tireless work of professionals and strong family support, he has been able to develop into a successful young man and artist that has learned to transform his internal existence into a powerful artistic expression. Vito describes his art and his process best as he writes:

“If you could take a look inside everything I am, mind, body and soul, you would see the images and feel the emotions that I put onto the canvas. My art is a true example of who I was and what I was feeling during the days any one piece was created. Those factors determine the images and colors that are used and is why many of my pieces are multi-layered, because they resemble the multi-layered, chaotic thought process of images and thoughts that call my mind their home.

My mind is a place where images, thoughts and words float around in a bumper-car like world, crashing and speeding in all directions. In wanting to clear my head sometimes of all this noise, I get some relief by taking these images and feelings and putting them down onto the canvas. Over the months of working on a series of works, this process gets repeated and layers are added over layers, sometimes obliterating the entire drawing underneath, other times allowing some of the under drawings to peak through.

The outcome is my hyper-focused hybrid dream-state style, where silent images shout for your attention from off the canvas and demand that you take a closer look into the secrets and treasures hidden in plain sight; leaving you to ponder the wonders of the human mind and psyche as experienced by myself and others who live and work with the daily challenge of, but too commonly overlooked gift of life on the spectrum.”

More Artwork by Vito Bonanno

OKAY vito-bonanno

Prints by Vito Bonanno (he/him/his)

Dead Triva, Red
Vito Bonanno
Daily Anxiety
Vito Bonanno
Plague Idiotest
Vito Bonanno
Church Street South Building
Vito Bonanno
Back of Trolley Square
Vito Bonanno
Shadow World
Vito Bonanno
Orange Zest
Vito Bonanno
Creamsicle
Vito Bonanno
Traffic Lights Plague Trolley Square
Vito Bonanno
King Kong
Vito Bonanno
Airplane Dreams 1
Vito Bonanno

Originals by Vito Bonanno (he/him/his)

Musi Interrupted
Vito Bonanno

Original

Everyday Things
Vito Bonanno

Original

Find the Cow
Vito Bonanno

Original

Dream Grids
Vito Bonanno

Original

Brain Cluster 1 & 2
Vito Bonanno

Original

Channel 121
Vito Bonanno

Original

Seaworld
Vito Bonanno

Original

Channels Interrupted
Vito Bonanno

Original

Reminiscing 1 & 2
Vito Bonanno

Original

Channels 1 & 2
Vito Bonanno

Original

Dreams 1 & 2
Vito Bonanno

Original

Kofy
Vito Bonanno

Original

Pizza Interrupted
Vito Bonanno

Original

Dead Trivia, Red
Vito Bonanno

Original

Airplane Crashes into Aerosol Building
Vito Bonanno

Original

Silo
Vito Bonanno

Original

YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE

ArtLifting champions artists impacted by disabilities and housing insecurity by connecting their art with socially-conscious customers . Learn more here.