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CV Diane Kleiss Silver City, New Mexico www.dianekleiss.com _____________________________________________________________ Residence: 1941-1960 Iowa 1960-1994 Minnesota 1994-2013 Arizona 2013- New Mexico Education: 1989 University of Minnesota at Duluth o BFA o BA K-12 Art Education o Art History Minor Member of: Museum of Encaustic Art – Santa Fe, NM - www.eainm.com International Encaustic Artists - www.international-encustic-artists.org Silver City Art Association - Silver City, NM - www.silvercityart.com Solo Exhibits 2020 Milner Women in the Arts Recipient: Retrospective WNMU McCray Art Gallery 2018-2019 Represented by Borderlands Gallery, Silver City, NM 2013-2018 Represented by Seedboat Gallery, Silver City, NM 2014 Contreras Gallery, Tucson AZ 2005 Tucson Jewish Community Center, Tucson, AZ 2000 Hacienda del Sol - Joesler Gallery, Tucson, AZ 1992 Exploring the Possibilities: A Retrospective - Miles Rife Art Center, Grand Rapids, MN 1987 Graduate Exhibit: Tweed Gallery Art Museum, UofM Duluth, MN Received 2 Gold Awards and one Purchase Award Selected Juried Exhibits 2019 Global Warming is Real: National Encaustic/Wax Exhibition, Museum of Encaustic Art Santa Fe, NM 2018 Global Warming is Real: National Encaustic/Wax Exhibition, Museum of Encaustic Art Santa Fe NM Melting Pot/Melting Point: International Encaustic Exhibit, Museum of Encaustic Art Santa Fe, NM 2016 Making Your Mark: IEA-EAI International Conference, Santa Fe, NM 2015 Arte de Avian National Exhibit: Tubac center for the Arts, Tubac AZ EAI 5th Annual National Exhibit: EAI Gallery, Santa Fe NM The Buzz Stops Here National Exhibit: Art.Science. Gallery, Austin TX 2014 Wax Works: National Small Works Exhibit: Gallery 901, Canyon Rd. Santa Fe, NM EAI 4th Annual Encaustic Juried Exhibi: EAI, Cerrillos, NM The Devil in the Straight Line: Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, Fl International Encaustic Artists Annual Juried Exhibit Radio Active: Common Ground Gallery, Silver City, NM 2013 Fusion: International Encaustic Artists: Eggman and Walrus Gallery, Santa Fe NM Encaustic USA : ARC Gallery with FUSE Encaustic, Chicago, ILL Self Portrait: A Journey Within: Encaustic Art Institute, Cerrillos, NM 2012 The Future of the Past: Encaustic Art in the 21st Century – Mills Gallery Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts 2nd Annual National Juried Encaustic Exhibition - EAI Gallery Encaustic Art Institute, Cerrillos, NM - Piece selected for Museum Collection T imeless Meditations: Mandalas and Patterns of Nature – Tubac Center of the Arts Tubac, AZ WAX: Contemporary Encaustic Works - Award of Excellence Pajaro Vallery Arts Council, Watsonville, CA Arizona Encaustic 2012 - TDS Gallery The Drawing Studio and SAZWAX Chapter of the IEA, Tucson, AZ 2011 Encaustic: Visions in Wax - Six Encaustic Voices Tohono Chul Park Art Gallery, Tucson, AZ Eye of the Beholder: The Fine Art of the Found Object - Award of Merit The Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD Fine Dining-Fine Art SAZWAX Encaustic Artists Hacienda del Sol, Tucson, AZ Encaustic Masters: Inspirational Voices - International Encaustic Exhibit Columbia River Gallery, Troutdale, OR First National Juried Encaustic Art Exhibition Encaustic Art Institute, Cerrillos, NM La Vida Verde: Living Green: Raices Taller 222 Gallery, Tucson, AZ Consequential Fusion: Messages in Wax - International Encaustic Exhibit Morro Bay Art Center, Morro Bay, CA Playing With Fire - International Encaustic Exhibit Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ In This Moment: International Exhibit by FACE UofA (Female Art Club/Education) FLUX Gallery and Stone Dragon Gallery, Tucson AZ 2010 The Connecting Spirit: The Drawing Studio, Tucson, AZ The Four Seasons: FACE UofA - Female Art Club/Education UofA Kachina Gallery and Stone Dragon Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2009 Cross Pollination: Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL Beauty and It’s Opposites: International Juried Encaustic Conference, Monserrat College, Beverly, MA Working in Wax: Encaustic and Wax Art Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA Uncharted Territories: Artist as Explorer PaperWorks Exhibit, The Drawing Studio, Tucson, AZ Metamorphosis: An International Juried Encaustic Exhibit, Hayden Art Center, Lincoln, NE 2002 Expressions of Womanhood: National All-media Juried Exhibit – Honorable mention St. Louis Artist’ Guild, St. Louis, MO Selected Group Exhibits 2013-2018 Seedboat Gallery Silver City NM 2014 Cycles: SAZWAX IEA Chapter, Jewish Community Art Gallery, Tucson, AZ 3D - Members Exhibit: Encaustic Art Institute Cerrillos, NM 2013 Self Portrait: A Journey Within, Encaustic Art Institute, Cerrillos, NM 2011 Salon de Refuse: Dinnerware Art Space, Tucson, AZ Mining the Unconscious: Encaustic Art Institute Members Exhibit Cerrillos, NM SAZWAX Chapter of IEA, Joesler Gallery Hacienda del Sol, Tucson, AZ 2009-2010 Dialectic: Encaustic Art Institute Members Exhibit Cerrillos, NM Art From the Heart: Encaustic Art Institute Members Exhibit Cerrillos, NM The Seduction of Wax: Jewish Community Center Art Gallery, Tucson, AZ Tucson Encaustic Artist Exhibit Art, Politics and the Soup of Change - Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson AZ 1998-2011 Mixed Media Members Exhibits: The Drawing Studio, Tucson, AZ Awards 2020 Milner Women in the Arts Recipient: Retrospective WNMU McCray Art Gallery 2012 Award of Excellence: WAX: Contemporary Encaustic Works Pajaro Valley Arts Council, Watsonville, CA 2011 Award of Merit: Eye of the Beholder: The Fine Art of the Found Object The Maryland Federation of Art - Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD U of M Duluth Exhibit Awards Friends of Tweed William G Boyce Award 1987 Kirby Student Center Program Board Purchase Award 1987 Faculty Merit Award 1987 Alice Tweed Tuohy Honorary Gold Cash Award #1 1986 - #2 1986 Other Venues 2014- Red Dot Sudio Tour, Silver City NM 2012 -2013 DACO Arizona Art Catalog 2008 - 2012 Open Studio Tour, Tucson, AZ 1994 - 1999 Tucson Museum of Art Annual Faculty Shows Temple of Music and Art, Tucson, AZ Art Organization Affiliations Silver City Art Association, Silver City NM – Board Member 2013-2019 International Encaustic Artists, IEA Board Member 2008-2011 IEA Southern AZ, SAZWAX Chapter, Tucson, AZ Charter Member 2008 - 2014 Encaustic Art Institute, Cerrillos, NM Charter member University of Arizona Panel Member Becoming An Artist In The 21st Century One of four panel members, UA College of Fine Art, AZ Union Gallery October 10, 2010 Moderated by Professor Alfred Quiroz, Painting School of Art Featured Articles/Book Inclusions In the Encaustic Studio-Basic Mixed Media Techniques DVD –Michelle Belto 2013 Authentic Visual Voices: Contemporary Paper & Encaustic DVD Catherine Nash 2013 Encaustic Art Magazine: Encaustic Art Institute, Cerrillos, NM Featured article June 2013 La Vida Verde: Living Green Tucson Weekly Art Review, Margaret Regan, August, 11 2011 Creating Opportunity The Four Seasons: A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Works by Women Artists. The Tucson Weekly Visual Arts Review by Maragret Regan, March 3, 2010 Exhibiting on Line American Artists Magazine, Catherine Noonan March 2001 Contemporary Storyteller on Canvas Desert Leaf, Tucson, AZ Karren Nystedt July/August 2000 Exploring the Possibilities: A Retrospective Aitkin Independent Age, Aitkin, MN R. Barton 7/1992 |
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