George Woodman
George Woodman is American photographer and painter whose career has spanned over 60 years and includes forays into diverse visual media. In the early 80s, Woodman has concentrated on black-and-white photography, which later developed into involving techniques such as collage-like arrangements and hand-painted photographs. He is also a Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado in Boulder where he taught painting and the philosophy of art: “A picture is an object of this world but always because of the existence of some other object. Holding a picture in the hand, the fingers enfold something from a reality not their own. Photographs push out the margins of a metaphysical skin, which encloses us. We look at them and like them for that reason.”
George Woodman was an influential figure in the Colorado art scene being associated for many years with Criss-Cross Art communication and one of the founding members of the seminal Spark Gallery. He has shown in a number of solo and group exhibitions since the 1970s including the National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C., Guggenheim Museum, New York, Museo del Chopo, Mexico City, Amethyst Gallery, Chennai, India, Grand Arts, Kansas City, Galerie Clara Maria Sels in Dusseldorf, Bemis Center …
George Woodman is American photographer and painter whose career has spanned over 60 years and includes forays into diverse visual media. In the early 80s, Woodman has concentrated on black-and-white photography, which later developed into involving techniques such as collage-like arrangements and hand-painted photographs. He is also a Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado in Boulder where he taught painting and the philosophy of art: “A picture is an object of this world but always because of the existence of some other object. Holding a picture in the hand, the fingers enfold something from a reality not their own. Photographs push out the margins of a metaphysical skin, which encloses us. We look at them and like them for that reason.”
George Woodman was an influential figure in the Colorado art scene being associated for many years with Criss-Cross Art communication and one of the founding members of the seminal Spark Gallery. He has shown in a number of solo and group exhibitions since the 1970s including the National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C., Guggenheim Museum, New York, Museo del Chopo, Mexico City, Amethyst Gallery, Chennai, India, Grand Arts, Kansas City, Galerie Clara Maria Sels in Dusseldorf, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy, Museo Universitario, Puebla, Mexico, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gallery Diet, Miami, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Ostend, Belgium, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, and Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York. He has received a number of awards throughout his career including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1967. He has published critical essays and catalogue essays plus four books, Museum Pieces (Lo Specchio d’Arte, 1996), The Further Adventures of Pinocchio, with poems by Edwin Frank (Lo Specchio d’Arte, 2004), How a Picture Grows a World, with poems by Iris Cushing (Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, 2010) and Metaphysics is to Metaphor as Cartography is to Departure (Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, 2011).
Courtesy of the Artist
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Portland Art Museum, Portland, ME
Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Gallery Diet, Miami, USA
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Florence, Italy
