Ellen Dieter
San Diego, CA
.Artist abandoned reality to find life. Though I go, I am always there, I can't get away from me.
MessageELLEN DIETER – BIO
Ellen Dieter was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. After studying at the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Cooper School of Art, Ellen moved to Paris, France where she continued her education at L’Ecole des Arts Appliques. After a decade abroad, Dieter returned to the United States settling in San Diego, California.
Ellen’s inspirations are many, ranging from Georgia O’Keefe when she was in high school to Joan Mitchell, still one of her favorites today. Dieter’s work presents a unique combination of figurative, abstract and drawing. Her focus is on the formal qualities of art: line, shape, form, tone, texture, pattern, color and composition. Dieter’s paintings are created intuitively, led by inner emotions and a creative imagination including her current environment. She likes to work in mixed media, using acrylics, oils, paper, graphite, pastels, charcoal, and items discarded and left behind. The combination of these styles and her treatment of the materials give her work a lyrical quality that transports our imagination.
Dieter recently reached one of her goals, a solo exhibition in a major museum. At the invitation of the Oceanside Museum of Art, she had her first museum solo, “Color, Joy, Shape, Vitality”. Ellen has had many solo and group exhibits over the years winning multiple awards and much recognition. Dieter was invited to do a residency with the Alexander Salazar Fine Art Gallery in San Diego as well as a residency in Honolulu, Hawaii with the Cedar Street Galleries. A few of the galleries where she has shown recently are: the William D. Cannon Gallery in Carlsbad, CA, The San Diego Art Institute, L Street Gallery, SD, CA, Martha Pace Swift Gallery, SD, CA, Ashton Gallery, SD,CA, and the Honolulu Museum of Art, Linekona Gallery, Honolulu, HI.
Dieter’s work has been collected internationally.
Dieter now splits her time between San Diego California and Honolulu Hawaii. She has a studio in both cities and gallery representation in both. Dieter is painting her way through life and the synthesis of life and art continues…
AWARDS
2020 Honorable Mention - WE ARE ALL THE SAME BUT DIFFERENT, OMA - jurors Robert L. Pincus and Maria Mingalone
2019 Best in Show - ATWEEN - 75 and Sunny at AshtonGallery, San Diego, juror Cindy Blumkin
2019 Honorable Mention - DOG KING - Ivory Dreams - Ashton Gallery - San Diego, CA
2018 Juror’s Choice - MIRROR OR MIRAGE - Ashton Gallery, San Diego CA - Phylicia Adelman Juror
2017 Second Place - AIRPORT BLUES - Documents and Pictures, SDMAAG - Mark-Elliot Lugo Juror
2016 First Place - VOL DE JOUR - Sunny Side of the Street, Ashton Gallery -- Liz Jardine juror
2016 Second Place - JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY - Aloha Show, ASA Honolulu, HI - Mark Brown, Juror
2015 First Place Award - DAY AT THE RACES - B&W - La Jolla Art Association, CA
2015 Purchase Award from the Hawaii State Foundation for REMEMBERING HALEAKALA, Honolulu, HI
2013 Juror's Choice -MA KAHI’E (Someplace Else) - SDAI one foot show, San Diego, CA
2013 Best of Show - THE BEST FEELING EVER - NCSFA Annual Juried Show - Juror, Ken Goldman, Poway, CA
2012 Honorable Mention - WHALE TALES OF A FISHERMAN - SDAI San Diego, CA - juror Alexander Salazar
2012 Commendation Award - FISHING, North County Society of Fine Arts, juror Annette Paquet, Poway, CA
2011 3rd Place, - WE ARE ALL THE SAME BUT DIFFERENT, Association of Hawaiian Artists 42nd Annual Contemporary Juried Show, Honolulu, HI - Juror: Antoinette Martin
2011 Honorable Mention, - WHAT’S LEFT BEHIND SERIES # 5 - SDAI - Juror Jeffery Laudenslager, San Diego, CA
2011 Juror’s Choice - THE SKEPTIC, SDAI 1 Foot Show, San Diego, CA Juror Alexander Salazar
2010 Juror’s Choice - ENTRE LE CHIEN ET LE LOUP...., SDAI Regional Dec. 2010 - San Diego, CA, Juror Beth
Smith
2010 Honorable Mention, WALKING THE NEIGHBORHOOD, SDAI So. Ca. Regional Awards
Exhibit, SD CA 2010
2009 Juror’s Choice - OL WHALER - San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2009 Honorable Mention, - MOM - San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2009 3rd Place - COLORS WITHIN - La Jolla Art Association, Art and Poetry competition - La Jolla, CA
2006 Honorable Mention - ALL IN GOD’S TIME… - Coal Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2003 2nd Place in Oil Category - RIVIERAS OF COLOR - North County Society of Fine Arts - San Diego, CA
2003 Juror’s Choice - SHROUDED WOMEN - San Diego Institute of Art - San Diego, CA
2001 Juror’s Choice - HOMETOWN WINTER - San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1996 Honorary Mention, SHANON AND HER MUSIC - San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1996 Juror’s choice - THE SUNNY SIDE OF NIGHT - San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
MUSEUMS
SAN DIEGO ART INSTITUTE - permanent collection
PUBLICATIONS
Jen Tough Podcast 2022
Saatchi Women In Art, 100 Voices 100 Arttists - 2020
Artist Unmasked podcast - 2019
Voyager Los Angeles - 2020 and 2018
Voyager SAn Diego - “2020 and 2018
Create Magazine - March 2017
Downtown News - April, 2015
CityBeat - May 13th, 2014
Voice of San Diego, Them Watching Me Photograph Them Painting Me, by Sam Hodgson, Feb. 2011
Voice of San Diego, When Three Become One, by Dani Dodge, Feb. 2011,
Baudelaire at the Gallery, Member’s Show SDAI/Mola Oct 2010
Collaborations at the Museum of the Living Artist, Digital Art Guild, Joe Navlen, Dec. 2009
Education:
Cleveland Institute of Art
Cooper School of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
L’Ecole des Arts Appliqués, Paris, France
UCSD extension cert. in Expressive Art Therapy
North County Art Therapy Certificate
VOLUNTEER WORK for and/or MEMBER OF:
Honolulu Museum of Art
AHA – Artists of Hawaii Associati
OMA - Oceanside Museum of Art
OMAAA - Oceanside Museum of Art Artist Alliance
SDVAN – San Diego Visual Arts Network
MOMASF - Museum of Modern Art San Francisco
DeYoung Museum San Francisco
Ellen Dieter is represented by:
Adelman Fine Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
Cedar Street Gallery, Honolulu, HI
Christopher Hill Gallery, Saint Helena, California
Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Art N Soul on 101, Encinitas, California
Studio E/L in Emeryville, CA
Statement
When I paint, I throw caution to the wind, letting it out, expressing from the inside, deliberate, yet free... arbitrary, yet intentional. Moving paint around, mixing colors, trying new ideas thrills me and I can not not paint.
My work is about the process. The image often comes secondary to the actual art making. I tend to work a lot in the abstract world of shape and color, line and form, painting intuitively, one brush stroke leading to the next. I find that there is a poetic spirituality in the process. Figures or landscapes may appear. Lines cross the canvas, words pop up out of nowhere. What happens next can be surprising and exciting. There is a definite chaos through which each work evolves. What is left behind my be visible or not, but I always know it is there. Creating, destructing, recreating….
Figuring it out, as in life.
I always hope the take away is a joyful experience. That the viewer can see and relate to an experience, whatever that experience may be for him or her. And also see that there is a process of decision making, again, as we do in life.
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