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George Spencer
Flower: Will It See Another Spring?
George Spencer
Flower: Will It See Another Spring?
- Repurposed materials collaged around a found packaging tube that is 7’2” high and 8 1/2” across.
- This piece will be supported by three stakes that are inside the piece.
- The repurposed materials include pieces of a shower curtain, of a hazmat suit, salvaged wall paper, old paintings of mine which are acrylic on paper, consumer packaging including cereal boxes and picnic plates and fabric.
This piece speaks to the fact that we live in an increasingly wasteful society, surrounded by products which have forced, built-in obsolescence engineered into their production. The ultimate question is how long can this continue?
Over the last 20 years I have made collages and sculpture and have recently shown my work at Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Lab Space, Collar Works, TSL, Spencertown Academy, Hyde Collection and The Gallery at the Visual & Performing Arts Center, Western CT State University. I have also curated exhibitions at TSL, Joyce Goldstein Gallery and l’ARTeficIO/Torino. Additionally, I recently curated 4 shows at the Garage at Chatham.
My areas of interest in the arts are constantly changing. My initial interest was in writing poetry and fiction. Then I became interested in drawing and sculpture which lead to film. I began doing interviews and one hour bios of writers on Manhattan Neighborhood Network followed by radio interviews of artists on WGXC in Hudson.
One of my new interests is recreating in a different medium work by other artists. I recently recreated a performance piece of Rauschenberg /Cunningham/Cage at the Garage at Chatham. I commissioned original sets, choreography and music.
I am now producing a staged version of T S Eliot’s The Waste Land at TSL in Hudson. I have commissioned new music, sets and choreography for this project. Previously, I produced an eight hour reading from James Joyce’s Ulysses with music that related to the material being read.