Coleman's ability to meld eclectic cultures in her work provides a kaleidoscope, through which we can see more clearly the peculiarities of Southern California. In an era when we are trying to come to grips with what seems an entirely fragmented world, Coleman gives us a vision of how it could all work together.
- Bolton Colburn, Senior Curator: The Orange County Museum of Art
The Surfer's Journal
Volume six, Number two
...a painter of enormous scope and versatility - with a remarkable range in both subject and approach. Although much of Bill's work would generally be called pure abstraction - albeit with a slightly surrealist, extemporaneous quality that encompasses both a free-form, wildly speculative aspect, and a more contemplative aspect of focus and intensity - the springboard of his work is almost always something observed from the external natural world - sometimes seemingly a mere fragment or detail. He plays with ambiguities - in shape, pigment, texture, and through the suppleness of his fluid drawing style - in the best way possible, leading us from observation to observation through a skein of associations, to places alternately close at hand and far beyond.
–Ezhra Jean Black
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ABOVE: Bill Jehle, Meditation drawing 67,
(detail), 2012, ink and pencil on paper,
11"x15" |
