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Jose L. De Juan
310-880 7437
josedejuan@mac.com
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Jose Luis De Juan is an artist residing in Pasadena, CA. He is originally from Madrid, Spain where he studied at the Madrid Academy of Art and graduated in Graphic Design. He then obtained a scholarship from the European Union to go into broadcast design and moved to California where he has lived for the past 12 years, pursuing a career in 3D motion graphics. Jose has worked with several animation studios in and around Los Angeles.
He spends every minute of his time following his passion for painting. He is an ardent plein-air artist and finds constant inspiration in the city and its surroundings. He works in both oil and watercolor to capture the light.
Jose thinks learning lasts forever, and then some…. He has taken classes and workshops at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art in the Art Center of Pasadena and at the Scottsdale Artist’s School with such luminaries as Andrew Peters, Jennifer McChristian, Clayton Beck III and Sherri McGraw.
Although most of his paintings are of landscapes he also paints figurative works and portraits. Jose's appreciation for the human body as artistic subject, and specially, the angular and sensual masculine form, is evident in his nude studies. His nudes are neither an excuse for mere artistic practice nor simply a vehicle for sensual complacency. For him the male beauty is a worthy subject itself, imbued with both spiritual and erotic qualities.
Eroticism is a state of the mind and a longing of the spirit. Explicit images tend to distract from the inner narrative and the painterly qualities of the work so, Jose rarely uses direct sexual depictions but, rather a more subdued, even melancholic depiction of Eros.
Jose has exhibited in several galleries and has won several watercolor and oil painting awards.
Jose Luis De Juan lives in Pasadena, CA with life partner Armando Ortiz, a teacher and art collector – on a budget.
EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS
NOV 2008 Third Prize Award at San Gabriel Plein Air 2008, San Gagriel, CA
NOV2008 Juried Entry into Small Works North America – Greenwich Workshop in Fairfield, CT
NOV 2008 Juried Entry in “Rialto Visions” show So Pas Gallery, South Pasadena, CA
OCT 2008 Jose Vera Fine Art Gallery, Eagle Rock, CA (Plein Air Show)
OCT 2008 Exhibition of Plein Air works at Artscape Gallery, Pasadena, CA
SEPT 2008 South West Museum “Mt. Washington Painters” Exhibit
MAY 2008 Group Show at Winestyles – South Pasadena, CA
MARCH 2008 The Source On Lake Gallery – “In Plain Air” (Rick Gallego and Jose De Juan) Pasadena
NOV 2007 Selected Participant at “The Best & The Brightest”, Scottsdale Artists School, AZ
NOV 2007 “Discovery Tour” group show at Highland Park, CA
OCT 2007 & OCT 2008 San Luis Obispo Plein Air Invitational (Participant)
APRIL 2006: 7 Plein Air Painters show at Carlotta’s Passion Gallery, Eagle Rock, CA
NOV 2005 Group Show with Mt. Washington Painters at Studio 50, Highland Park
Aug 2005 Strathmore Merchandise Award, Watercolor West, Riverside Art Museum
NOV 1999 Jack Richeson Award granted to watercolor exhibited in San Bernadino Museum of Art
MEMBERSHIPS
San Gabriel Valey Arts Association
The California Art Club
The Pasadena Society of Artists
National Watercolor Society
Mount Washington Plein Air Painters
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* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist