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ABOUT

Beth Jeffe was born and raised in New York.

A graduate of Yale University, she completed a
degree in the History of Art with a groundbreaking examination of the West African textile tradition in Brazil, while pursuing

a double major in Fine Art.  An award-winning designer, fine artist, and writer, she has returned to her central focus on painting and textile arts after a sabbatical spent

writing two novels. She has traveled extensively, living in Kenya, Brazil, New Mexico, the UK,

and presently, Sarasota, Florida. Her work is included in various private and

public collections in America and abroad.

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ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Art is a direct way for human beings to address

the disorder of their world and experience individual

structures of unity. By combining painting,

sculpture, and mixed media, I choose to create visual

relationships that stand as metaphors for this

complex dance of chaos and order. I am particularly

drawn to the geometry of wholeness, a play

between shapes that are clearly dissimilar and yet,

have underlying realities that bind them. Using

nature as a touchstone or jetty, a pathway to the

spirit, I work with a series of pure forms 

which express essential truths, the same truths that

have arisen for artists since prehistory and,

at the same time, have become personal to me.

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Ultimately, I’m interested in the viewer’s

transformative experience. Through the tension

between its physicality – dense paint and

texture, grid upon grid of substructure – and its

subtle spiritual content, my work stimulates

an emotional response, a reminder of something

forgotten, archaic, iconic, and beautiful.

I wish to engage the viewer in this dynamic of

shifting realities – the desire for interconnectedness,

a glimpse of divine presence, and

the transcendent role of beauty in the world.

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EXHIBITIONS

2005

Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Group Exhibition

2006

The Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM  

Solo Exhibition

2007

The Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Group Exhibition

2008

The Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Group Exhibition

Ananhita

Beth Jeffe © 2022 

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