STATEMENT
"Stemming from observation and memory, the imagery in my work is initially cultivated through many gouache and mixed media works on paper. The forms are often unpredictable, and their meanings open-ended. I make many works on paper, and some of these become paintings. In that process I am translating subconscious imagery into paintings that becomes most potent when they are unexplainable. I usually start with some kind of image in my mind and the work unfolds as I go. When I surprise myself I feel I may have created a successful piece.
My recent work began with a desire to interpret bodily function and experience, to question and understand our ungraspable insides. Positing physical identity as a kind of living abstraction, the imagery can be both known and unidentifiable.
By letting go of anatomical rules, the works are more like poetic spaces. I’m interested in suggestive imagery and the simultaneity of forms. Through painting, expectations of functionality and fragility literally become marks, colors, drawings. Internal and external landscapes become abstracted through the process of thought and visualization." - Georgia Elrod
EDUCATION
2010 Hunter College, M.F.A
2001 The Colorado College, B.A. with honors in Fine Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Around the Corner, Novella Gallery, NYC
2012 Here and Here, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2010 Open System, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, NYC 2006
2006 Georgia Elrod: Recent Paintings and Drawings, JGallery, Maplewood, NJ
2006 Viewfinder, Roger Smith Lab Gallery, NYC
2005 Brief Histories, Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 The Oblique, curated by David Gibson, NYC
2019 Making (It) Work, California College of the Arts
2019 The Unusuals, The Painting Center, NYC
2018 Graces, Curated by Nicholas Cueva, 5-50 Gallery, NYC Private Practice, Underdonk, NYC
2017 Show Me Yours, Underdonk, NYC Truth, BRIC, NYC
2016 Soft & Hard, Trestle Projects, NYC Beauty, Openings Collective, NYC
2015 Borderlands, COOP Gallery, Nashville TN
2015 Family Ties, curated by Julie Torres and Bonny Leibowitz, 500X, Dallas, TX
2015 New Work City, curated by Julie Torres
2015 Momenta Art, NYC
2014 Second Family, 2 Rivington, NYC
2014 Family Style, Formerly Pocket Utopia, NYC Rum Punch!, 204 Parkside, NYC
