Artist Michele Guieu Wins the Coveted Juror's Choice Award at the San Diego Art Institute for July 2005

(PRWEB) July 8, 2005

Michele Guieu's "A woman", acrylic on canvas 54"x54" inches (150x150cm), created in June 2005, won the Juror's Choice Award at the San Diego Art Institute (SDAI), San Diego, California, and is exhibited at the SDAI during the month of July 2005.

Guieu explains her technique: "I start a work by painting elements with a solid color or by outlining them, leaving the white of the canvas as a background. I then proceed with successive layers, more or less transparent, darker and darker, creating elements, signs or figures that appear or disappear. The depths intensify, and, therefore, the luminosity intensifies. The layers of memories accumulate, intertwined, entangled, and yet the space of the canvas becomes simplified when viewed from a distance."

Cultures which are not her's have always interested Guieu. The years she spent in Africa were a very important source of inspiration for her. She remembers the men and the women she met in the desert and in remote villages. Sometimes it was not possible to communicate verbally, and they would draw images in the sand to try to understand each other.

Today, many years after, those faces remain fresh in her mind. “A Woman” represents many women -- it is the mystery of a culture we have difficulties understanding. The painting also echos the violence of reality -- what is happening to the women of the world in times and places of conflict and war. Guieu thinks of these women as sisters in far away lands. "A woman" is dedicated to them.

Guieu won the the Juror's Choice Award at the San Diego Art Institute twice in a few months.

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