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George Spencer
Rust Belt
George Spencer
Rust Belt
- Metal/Steel
- 20’ to 40′ x 3’ x 1’ or duet of 20′ each
- The piece should rest directly on the cement.
The piece, Rust Belt, is a visual representation of the destruction of significant parts of the USA, starting in the 1950’s and continuing into the present. The Rust Belt was the manufacturing, steelmaking, and coal-producing heartland. Its decline caused, and continues to cause, widespread unemployment, increased poverty, decay, and population loss. Little has been done to clean up the ecological mess that modern civilization and its industrial and political representatives have created. This piece is a warning that time is running out.
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 atthe 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.