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
