
Jean Gidich Fine Art.
Every living thing has a story. I’m interested in telling it with lines. My work is stripped of color and uses basic materials of ink and graphite. The marks are raw and active just like the subjects I choose. The implied texture and contrast of detailed strands alongside bold strokes define them. I draw on watercolor paper veneered to a wood surface. By doing this I can dig, blend and layer my lines. I find this process of large scale drawing exhilarating to create and how I can best translate what I see as a tangible thing
Welcome to my World
Drawn one line at a Time
Jean's CV
Exhibitions
2022 Best of Show, Looking Up Exhibition , Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green
2022 Medici Biennial Exhibition, Medici Museum of Art
Warren,OH
2021 Award Recipient, Artprize International Competition
Grand Rapids,MI
2021 Biennial Top 50 Exhibition, Riffe Gallery
Columbus, OH
2021 Best Of Show, Artists 4 Animals Exhibition, Four Corners Art Center
Bowling Green, OH
2020 Solo Exhibition, Women’s History Month Featured Artist, Wine Flight
Elmore, OH 3/20
2019 Solo Exhibition, State Courthouse,
Perrysburg, OH 3/19
2018 Artists as Educators,Riffe Gallery,
Columbus, OH 10/18
Solo Exhibition, Barr's Public House,
Maumee,OH 5/18-11/18
Women's History Month Featured Artist, Wine Flight,
Elmore,OH 3/18
2017 2x 1st place award, Artists 4 Animals Exhibition, Four Corners Art Center
Bowling Green,OH 11/17
Education
1991 MA Art Education,Ohio State University
Columbus,OH 1/90-6/91
1988 BFA ,Painting,Drawing,Printmaking
minors in Animal Science and Art History
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 8/88
Teaching
present-
1991 Secondary and Post Secondary Art Instructor, Genoa Area High School
Genoa, OH