Solo exhibition at
Marcia Wood Gallery, May 14 - June 20, 2009. installation images
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. |