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Toy Designer, Inventor, Digital Animator, Airbrush Illustrator, Graphic
Designer, Storyboard Artist and Writer are just some of the hats George has worn in his professional artistic
career of over 26 years.
A graduate of The
American Academy of Art in Chicago, George's work has appeared on retail toys & games, Dungeons
& Dragons© publications and Pin-ball and Video Games. He served as a
Senior Director of Creative Development for McDonald’s® Happy Meal Toys, conceptualizing over one thousand ideas
per year, for over a decade. George’s
true love however, is oil painting. Traveling to some of the world's great art collections such as The Louvre, Musee
d'Orsay, The Uffizi, The Rijksmuseum, The Tate and The Brandywine, he has deciphered lessons contained within the brush strokes
of the Great Masters. Journeying to the workshops of living master’s, he has learned various oil painting techniques.
This odyssey, combined with daily study and practice, has given him the knowledge and skill to create his own “Representational
Style” of artwork with traditional oils. Influences such as John Singer Sargent, N.C. Wyeth,
Howard Pyle, Norman Rockwell, and Frank Frazetta have provided inspiration for George to pursue this passion.
His artwork has appeared in U.S. and European galleries and he is a member of The Oil Painters of America and The Portrait
Society of America.
Exhibitions 2009- August. Old Courthouse Art Center, “Real People" Woodstock, Il
2009-
June. Cornerstone Gallery, Chicago 2009- June. Murphy/Hill Gallery, Chicago 2009- April. Cornerstone Gallery,
Chicago 2008- Nov. The 32nd Annual Plaza Art Competition and Exhibition
Beverly Arts Center, Chicago
2008-
Oct. “Tura! Tura! Tura!” The Tattoo Factory Gallery, Chicago
2008- Sept. The 1901 Gallery “Death to
the Summer” Chicago
2007- June. Murphy/Hill Gallery, Chicago
2007- Feb. Murphy/Hill Gallery, Chicago
2006-
Dec. Murphy/Hill Gallery, Chicago
2006- Oct. Murphy/Hill Gallery, Chicago
2006- Sept. Murphy/Hill Gallery, Chicago
2006- Aug. “Real People Exhibition”, Old Courthouse Art Gallery, Woodstock, Il
2006- June “Kunst
in der Rotunde” GEA Center Gallery, Bochum, Germany
2006- Oct. Cornerstone Gallery, Chicago
2006- May. Cornerstone
Gallery, Chicago
2006- February Exhibition, Echo Gallery, Chicago
2005- Dec. Cornerstone Gallery, Chicago
2005- July “Myth America” Gallery 1633, Chicago
2005- May “Faces, Facades & Fantacies”
Gallery 1633, Chicago
2005- Feb. “Abstract Thinking Figuratively Speaking” Gallery 1633, Chicago
2005-
Jan. “15th Annual Erotica Show” Gallery 1633, Chicago
2004- Oct. “Celebrate Chicago Artists’
Month” Gallery 1633, Chicago
2004- Sept. “Around the Coyote” Gallery 1633, Chicago
2004- Aug.
“Hot Daze, Cool Waters” Gallery 1633, Chicago
2004- July “Myth America” Gallery 1633, Chicago
2004- May “Faces, Facades & Fantacies” Gallery 1633, Chicago
2004- Feb. “Abstract Thinking Figuratively
Speaking” Gallery 1633, Chicago
2004- Jan. “14th Annual Erotica Show” Gallery 1633, Chicago
2002-
“May Exhibition with Tamara Bane Gallery” Echo Gallery, Chicago 2001- June "The Art of the Mission"
The Mission Dance club Elgin, Il.
1980- American Academy of Art Student show, Sears Tower, Chicago
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