jyruff

Join me at the Juried Invitational Exhibition…

Ming Myaskovsky Fine Art Award
Excellence in Oil Painting
SoJie 14, October 2011

October 2011 Juried
Invitational Exhibition

Artist – Photographer, Surfer, Hiker – Scientist/Naturalist, Animal Lover,Writer. " LIFE SEEN THROUGH ART – IS A LIFE WORTH HAVING LIVED"- Joseph Y. Ruff…. Born, San Diego,Ca., only child,Navy brat, Japanese mom, German Dad. Started drawing before I could talk.Parents gone a lot,dad overseas,mom silk embroidery/life size Kabuki doll artist. Would stay months at a time in my room drawing /reading. Read Encyclopedia Britannica, adult version, cover to cover over 5th grade summer..First sale, 5th grade, – Gary Blackmore 3/4 view van gogh style heavy colored chalk portrait to San Diego evening tribune for feature @ 350.00. 2 nd sale, 6th grade, – San Diego Bay view city skyline,midnight lights, pastels, @875.00, to San Diego museum of modern art, perm collection. Moved every few years, lived Asia, the Americas, Europe,north Africa. Graduated from, – Kenitra Amer H S, Rabat, Morocco, n Africa, colleges, – San Diego state univ, aa-phyical science, UCSD-La Jolla, Revel ext.,ba-physics, ma-astrophysics. Art scholarship – Chicago Art Institute @ Allerton school of art. Teach, – San Diego State Univ. – fine art, oil painting,beg/ int/ adv. Big Island, – H S ,physics, math, astronomy,molecular biology,geology. Current location, Kaneohe Bay,Oahu. Water child, never lived more than 5 miles from large mass of water. Surf almost every day,surfed every place I’ve lived. Avid hiker, hiked over 250 Oahu trails alone.Hike 4-6/wk w/my 3 dogs. Further away, higher, deeper, more dangerous, the better. Current hiking/nature photo compilation greater than 500,000, total # photos in stock more than 750,000. Total # photos, me – 2. Currently working on, – fine art oil paintng, Photo/narration/music cd Oahu hiking trails, books, – photo narration Oahu hiking trails, Photo Encyclopedia narrative, Oahu hiking Trails Guide/Encyclopedia. Current # cameras 4. Current # surfboards 24. …