VALERIE GEORGE

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"Welcome to My Party: Deflated", Archival pigment print, Valerie George, 2019

"Welcome to My Party: Yes, Yes Stilled Life with Lemons", Archival pigment prints, Valerie George, 2019

Photo credit: Amanda McCabe

"Welcome to My Party: Yes, Yes Stilled Life with Lemons", Archival pigment prints, Valerie George, 2019

Photo credit: Amanda McCabe

"The Light is for Me", Silver gelatin print, Valerie George, 1998

This photograph was taken of Artie Missey Brown just before her death. She was a supporter of George’s choice to become an artist and was often the muse and model for her photographs.

"Recapturing Grace," Archival pigment prints, Valerie George, 2003

Inspired by Roland Barthes Camera Lucida, this series explores topics explored in photography theory addressing the notion of “the pose” and “the gaze.” Specifically, George is interested in examining the physical similarities between herself and her mother while also considering what it means to be a woman photographed, to pose for a photograph, and to recreate a photograph.

"Recapturing Grace," Archival pigment prints, Valerie George, 2003

Welcome to My Party is an ongoing body of work culled directly from the artist’s experience of the diagnosis of breast cancer. Utilizing the aesthetics of 17th century Dutch still life painting, she wakes up to face the camera documenting her spirit in flux, and the transformation of her body.

The Light is for Me was taken of Artie Missey Brown just before her death. She was a supporter of George’s choice to become an artist and was often the muse and model for her photographs.

Inspired by Roland Barthes Camera Lucida, the Recapturing Grace series explores topics explored in photography theory addressing the notion of “the pose” and “the gaze.” Specifically, George is interested in examining the physical similarities between herself and her mother while also considering what it means to be a woman photographed, to pose for a photograph, and to recreate a photograph.

VALERIE GEORGE is an artist whose work over the past 20 years has reflected holistically on art and life in the form of installation art, video, performance, sound, sculpture, photography, new media, drawing, collaborative projects, and curatorial practices.

George received her MFA from the University of California, Davis, and is a Full Professor of Art at the University of West Florida, Arts Editor of Panhandler Magazine: A Journal of Art and Literature, a member of Good Children Gallery, and on the Board of Directors of the 309 Punk Museum Project.She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally including Locust Projects (Miami, FL), Public Address (Brooklyn, NY), Cinders Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Worksound Gallery (Portland, OR), Coop Gallery (Nashville, TN), Norton Museum (West Palm, FL), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL), Center on Contemporary Art (Seattle, WA), Sonoma County Museum (Santa Rosa, CA), Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Robert Miller Gallery (NY, NY), Adobe Backroom Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Sarai Media Lab (New Delhi, India), FemArt Mostra D’Art De Dones (Barcelona, Spain), and the Horse Hospital (London, England).

She has been invited to participate in several national fine art festivals and events including the RCA Street Festival (Richmond, VA), {Re-Happening} at Lake Eden (former site of Black Mountain College) (Black Mountain, NC), Art in the Open (Philadelphia, PA), and South by Southwest (SXSW) at Okay Mountain Gallery (Austin, TX). She was also a Visiting Artist & Lecturer at the Hangar Residency (Barcelona, Spain) and Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA). Her work is in the collection of the Norton Museum of Art and was purchased for the museum by curator Tim Wride (formerly the curator of Photography at LACMA). Her work has been reviewed by NPR (WHYY), Burnaway Magazine, Tom Tom Magazine: A Magazine for Female Drummers, Tape Op: The Creative Music Recording Magazine, Amp Magazine, and Drain Magazine: A Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture.

She was awarded the Artist in Residence Fellowship at the Everglades National Park (AIRIE) for May of 2016, and the Artist in Residence Fellowship at the Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives Artists Residency (BigCi) in Australia for May of 2017.

She is one of the newest members of Good Children Gallery in New Orleans, LA and will exhibit a solo exhibition in April, 2021.