Jim Bliesner

Jim Bliesner is an artist exploring ideas in multiple media.
He started with painting and set out to paint the great cities of the world doing Paris, Venice, Jerusalem, villages of China, Mexico, England, Brazil, Turkey and the USA. This odyssey produced over 400 paintings, woodcuts and prints. Searching for dimension in images he built furniture in Baja Mexico. This exploration generated public installations funded by Insite (SD), two grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, and numerous public art grants as well as funding for the work in Havana Cuba at the Havana Biennale of 2000. The California Council for Humanities funded an exploratory film of the US/Mexico border and its minute points of human transmission under the border fence. He has assisted in the production of two documentary films about the work in Baja and Havana. Much of this work was done in conjunction with the cross border art collective RevArte. The Popotla project has been featured in “Art and Social Change: A Reader” by Tate Publishing as well as Public Art Review. He has executed numerous public sculptures in the City of San Diego, the SD Port District and was appointed by the City of Shanghai to jury an international sculpture competition. He recently had...

INVITATIONALS
SHANGHAI URBAN SCULPTURE EXPOSITION-2007-invitation to exhibit proposed
work -City of Shanghai sculpture installation
LA HABANA BIENALE - 2000 -(RevArte) - public sculptural installation
(cement/metal)
INSITE 97 - (RevArte) - San Diego/Tijuana - public sculptural installation
SANTA BARBARA CONTEMPORARY ARTS FORUM - Twenty Seven Selected
California Artists- (painting)
LA GALERIA DE ARTE DE LA CIUDAD - Tijuana - painting and sculptural images

PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
Azalea Park-City of San Diego – Individual Sculpture-“Joy Ride” 2011
San Diego Port Commission – The Tree Series/Sculpture -2004-05. TREE Cubed
Lomas Verdes –Sculpture- City of Tijuana/US Mexico Fund for Culture-park installation
Popotla, Mexico –InSite and US Mexico Fund for Culture –three-dimensional mural
San Ysidro, Ca. - streetscape sculpture - cement and tile-City Arts Commission
City Heights - community garden project -wooden sculptural installation
Adams Avenue Banner Project - painted street banners

COMMISSIONED PAINTING TOURS/EXHIBITS
China - in conjunction with the Chinese Consulate - Intersection Gallery, San Diego
Mexico (Puebla) - in conjunction with the Mexican Consulate - Linda Moore Gallery,
San Diego
Jer...