Artist Bio

George Small has been a working multi-media artist his entire career working in many mediums, including welded steel sculpture, painting, drawing and photography. He continues his aesthetic quest today to combine mediums in a unique two dimensional format. His present works are photo collage’s chemically transferred to fine art paper on a press reworked with an assortment of media including air brush, acrylic paint, gouache, inks, and colored pencil. His goal to create a synthesis of three dimensional space, story, historical context in a two dimensional format.

Over the years his photographs have documented and recreated the world around us. His “Innocense lost” series is a good example of bringing the past to life with reference to the great photographers that documented the American landscape from “Weston” to “Dorthea Lang”.

His 2004-2010 “Apartment” series is a wonderful example of hand painted and glazed photographs in a dream like setting. These hand painted photographs were perfect romantic synthesis of classic image and atmospherics. Merging all your senses. In this most recent work context has become even more important. These images from our collective past merge with the edginess of a modern aesthetic in an overview of contemporary shape and color.

Through the years Small has created a body of work that has opened eyes and the public to his vision. A vision imbedded in the American ethos. In his car series from 2011 , “From Main street to Wall street” he serves up a totem of images that reflect on a society that throws away its machines and people. In the 2004 series “Pals Bar” , he preys open the locked doors of an aging Veterans bar and flop house to reveals the lightness and darkness of friendship and community.

In this most recent work Small is using photography in a montage of techniques working with mix-media in a new exciting format. His Mona Lisa series is a perfect example of Small’s re-mixing of iconic figures in history. As artists in the music industry remix iconic standards with a new twist on time and place. Notice how the environment changes the context.