Featured artist
Ellen Dieter
Ellen Dieter has
cultivated a lifelong synthesis of aesthetic vision, innate talent, and
technical expertise that has helped her become a prolific and admired artist
here and abroad. Dieter discovered a thirst for creative exploration early in
life. As a natural master of texture and color, Dieter has nurtured her gift
for artistic expression that has earned her international recognition and taken
her around the globe.
A native of
Cleveland, Ohio, Dieter began her studies at the Cooper School of Art. Her work
there earned her a place at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Upon
completing that phase of her education, her artistic passion carried her across
the Atlantic to Paris, where she studied at L’Ecole des Arts Appliques. During
the next ten years, Dieter’s work was successfully represented at several solo
exhibitions throughout France and established for her a reputation for elegant
forms, economy of line, and remarkable control of the brush.
In 1989 Dieter
moved to San Diego. The change of environment revitalized her unending quest
for artistic expression and communication. She immediately began creating
provocative and innovative pieces for both her own solo shows and for
multiple-group exhibits. She also began to immerse herself in the local
creative and performing arts communities such as City Moves and The Old Globe
Theatre.
Dieter’s style has continually
evolved. The richness of her contemporary palette has developed over years of
artistic inquiry, and she counts O’Keefe, Modigliani, Kandinsky, and others as
equally powerful influences. Her work glows with rich and vibrant color and
evokes timeless themes juxtaposed with reflections of memory—memories from her
extensive travels throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Africa as
well as her interpersonal journeys closer to home. Dieter’s paintings are a
rare and extraordinary fusion of technical skill and artistic abandon. Her
organic compositions capture the ephemeral vitality of modern life.
Dieter relates; experience upon
experience, color on color, line over line, creating a metaphor for life.
Without the experience of the past, today wouldn’t be today. Without the
continued painting over days, weeks, months and years, her painting wouldn’t be
where it is now.
“This work comes from a place within
yet is very much about the world as she sees it, past, present and future.
Color is the experience as shapes form through application of color and line.
Mark making, adding on, taking away, nestling in, finding balance.
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