George Long received his BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1995 and currently lives and works in Atlanta. Since his first solo exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery – and feature debut of the popular 8x8 series - in 2004, Long has seen this work given a solo exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art and a featured inclusion in the Jacksonville Museum of Art’s “Activating Space: Sculpture as Environment” exhibition, curated by George Kinghorn. Long recently returned from a prestigious residency at the International Kunstler Kolonie in Nuremburg, Germany, during which he began the construction of many of the works to be featured in his upcoming solo exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery this March.

Long’s first exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery, “8 x 8,” in 2004, featured an installation of over 500 mixed-media paintings on panel installed in grids along the walls. These small square paintings of mixed media – incorporating drawing, resin, found images, scrap metal and so on – affect a compelling intersection of painting, sculpture and installation. Long adds to this work with a body of larger, 60 x 60 inch panels, conceived as a part of the same larger body of work as the 8 x 8 inch boxes, investigating the same themes and same language of iconography, using many of the same materials. These larger works, installed among the “eight by eights,” are envisioned as a sort of macro-view of the smaller works.