BILL JEHLE: RECENT PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS
-JUANITA SALAZAR LOWE GALLERY-
IMPERIAL VALLEY COLLEGE

EVENT
ANNOUNCEMENT

BILL JEHLE
RECENT PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS

LOCATION: Juanita Salazar Lowe Gallery - Imperial Valley College

DATES:
Opening: Thursday March 5, 4-7PM
Through March 25

PH: (310) 980-4477
EM:    billj@billjehle.com
WEB: IVC Gallery
           billjehle.com
MAP: IVC

LEFT: Bill Jehle
MY TRUSTY ROVER ,
oil, Novacolor, gold leaf on paper, 14"x22"

I will be showing selections from three different series of recent works.

FOUR CORNERS is a series of landscape-based oil and gold leaf on paper abstract paintings, 15in x 21in, that come from the nature of place and name. These works reflect how our minds perceive external “real” information through our eyes and then process and abstract meaning through our stored memories, knowledge of what has been true, beliefs about what will be true, and emotions.

TAKE ME BACK: pencil, Novacolor, oil, dry pigment, coloraid paper and gold leaf on paper, 13-1/2in x 23in. These pieces started as a way to revisit a theme I created and moved on from in 1978. While I was working, these pieces brought back memories and my fear of repeating past mistakes. Using that theme as a starting point gave me the opportunity to see what trajectory this series would take forty years on. And gives rise to our relationship to points in time and the path(s) growth takes.

MEDITATION DRAWINGS: pencil and India ink on BFK, 11in x 15in. This series came about through experimental digital tracings of landscapes photographed around our home in Topanga. The studies made clear that the leaves and branches of our oak trees arrange themselves into patterns determined opportunistically by their need as a forest to exploit collective natural wealth. Our forest structure revealed itself as a metaphor describing how to direct action in a drawing, from twisting branches to fallen leaves, taking advantage of and falling victim to all resources--wind, ley lines, sun, water and pests. I realized that I have always constructed my work in the same way that the landscape features come into being. This approach builds upon work that I have been thinking about and making for years.