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Third Place Award of Excellence
The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild
2024 Spring Online Exhibition
An International Juried Online Exhibition
March 25, 2024 – May 25, 2024
JUROR:
Nancy Lim, Associate Curator
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Department of Painting & Sculpture
Congratulations to our
Third Place Award of Excellence Winner
Jiela Rufeh
Jiela was awarded the third place for her 36x36” mixed media work (Encaustic, Rice Paper, Archival Ink, Photo, Oils)
Behind the Veil
About Jiela:
Jiela was born in Boston, Massachusetts, of German and Persian descent. She grew up in the small colonial town of Concord, encompassed by a rich cultural and literary history. Jiela’s education and professional life have taken her across the country from DC, New York, and Boston to San Diego where she currently lives and works. She received her BFA from Syracuse University in the study of Photography and Sculpture. She then went on to do post graduate work at the International Center of Photography in New York, and then to the prestigious Brooks Institute of Photography. While working in commercial photography, she has exhibited nationally for over a decade, including solo exhibitions in Berlin. Her belief in a universal energy has been an evolving interest and her work has been influenced by its manifestation throughout different civilizations, specifically Native American culture, mysticism, Shamanism, Yoga, and Eastern philosophy.
About Behind the Veil:
Behind the Veil is a symbolic representation of the human family
tree which depicts blossoming generations, bloodlines ripe with marriages,
children, cousins, etc. The first layer of the painting is a collage of my
photographs of trees, in black and white, which reflect variety amongst
species/individuals. Some squares have branches crossing into other squares as
if they are one family. Soon the many boxes become abstracted with layers of
encaustic medium (wax and damar resin) and paint- illustrating the passage of
time and maturing generations. The white veil blurs the line between the living
and the deceased, and the line between who we are today and our ancestorial
heritage.
Noteworthy Exhibitions:
Oceanside Museum of Art, 2023/2024 Artist Alliance Biennial, Oceanside CA
Oceanside Museum of Art, Color Pop! Juror Maria Mingalone Executive Director Oceanside Museum of Art
The San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild, 2023 Artist Guild Online Exhibition, Juror: Hugh Davies Director and CEO of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Museum of Encaustic Art, Joy, Cerrillos, NM
The Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, 30th Annual Juried Exhibition, La Jolla CA
Oceanside Museum of Art, 2022 Artist Alliance Biennial, Oceanside CA
William D Cannon Art Gallery, Cannon Invitational (Nov 2021-Feb 2022), Carlsbad CA
William D. Cannon Art Gallery, 2021 Juried Biennial Exhibition, Carlsbad
Yellowstone Art Museum, Yellowstone Art Auction, Billings, MT
BFree Studio, As We See It: Two Visions In Encaustic, La Jolla CA
Bakersfield Museum of Art, Art Mix, Bakersfield CA
Beacon Gallery, 2020 International Juried Show Totems, Boston MA
William D. Cannon Art Gallery, 2019 Juried Biennial Exhibition, Jurors Maria Mingalone, Executive Director of Oceanside Museum of Art, and Robert Pincus art critic and writer for the San Diego Union Tribune.
Oceanside Museum of Art, The Six Word Story, Oceanside
Museum of Latin American Art, Beyond the Earth and Sky, Long Beach CA
Museum of
Encaustic Art, 50 States/200 Artists Exhibition, (Permanent Collection)
Santa Fe, NM
Slater Memorial Museum, CWA 90th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, and First Place Award, Juror Ann H. Sievers, Director and Curator of the Art Museum of St. Joseph. Norwich, CT
Atlantic Gallery, International Juried Exhibition 2018 Who Are You? NYC, NY
The Museum of California Center for the Arts, Reuse Recreate Reimagine, Escondido CA
The Museum of California Center for the Arts, Heated Exchange Contemporary Encaustic, Escondido
Galerie Tantow, Nature Dialogue, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Saraie, Begegnungen, Berlin, Germany
Pfundt Gallery, Verwandlung, Berlin, Germany
Website: www.jielarufeh.com