Bill Jehle

I was raised in a small town on the California Mexico border. My parents were both artists, father-architect, mother-painter/ceramicist. Several kinds of art activities were always on the schedule whether it was visiting craftspeople in Mexicali, silkscreening Christmas cards that I would design, watching my mother paint - and always drawing. One year we painted 20 larger than life versions of Lautrec’s Parisian night life scenes for a “church” gala. My father was not only an architect but he made things-that’s where I learned how to make things-and now I make things too. I was educated locally and at CU Boulder, CalARTS and Cooper Union.Some of the teachers that had the biggest influence with me: Jerry Kunkel, Jack Whitten, Paul Brach, Miriam Schapiro, Lynda Benglis and Jim Starrett. My work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Kansas City, Hawaii and is in both corporate and private collections around the country. In 2017 I partnered with another artist to produce twenty large scale images for a Metro station in Santa Monica California. Now my practice consists of sculpture (with a bend toward the utilitarian,) architectural rendering, life and plein air drawing and watercolor (of which I’ve published several books) and complex for...

University of Colorado, Boulder
California Institute of the Arts
The Cooper Union For Science and Art

2018 SOLO SHOW: Soraya Performing Arts Center, California State University Northridge
2017 GROUP SHOW: Topanga Canyon Gallery, June
2017 7x7.la, with writer Tony Mancus, chosen by Axel Wilhite for 7x7 web collaboration
2016 NINE dot ARTS, Denver, Prequalified List, October
2016 GROUP SHOW: Jason Vass Gallery, June
2016 GROUP SHOW: Topanga Canyon Gallery, June
2015 GROUP SHOW: Topanga Canyon Gallery, June
2015 IN THE ABSTRACT: Paintings and Drawings, Juanita Salazar Lowe Gallery, Imperial Valley College,
2014 FOUR CORNERS: Paintings, The Artlook at Paulin Paris Studio, Hawthorne, California, December
2014 WATERCOLOR: Galeria Gitana, San Fernando, California, December-January
2014 ARTIST TEAM: Mallinson/Jehle selected for the Los Angeles County Arts Commission’s Civic Artists Pre-Qualified List
2013 OLYMPIC AND 26th STREET STATION, Santa Monica, California, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority: with Constance Mallinson, contract for 20 images to be transferred to metal tile
2012 SAGE LANE GALLERY, Robert Aull Sculpture, Bill Jehle, Drawings, Curated by Patricia Correia, October-December
2012 JURIED SHOW, Timeless Meditations: Mandalas & Patterns in Nature, Tubac Center of the Arts,Tubac, Arizon...