![]() He is also a member of the experimental, Atlanta based collaborative group, SSAR (Sunday Southern Art Revival). Long is versatile in a broad range of media, including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture and metal working. His first solo exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery was in 2004, where he introduced the now widely acclaimed 8 x 8 series. George Long received his BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1995 and currently lives and works in Atlanta. One thinks of dream sequences, time shifting, fleeting memories. The final figures fade and shift, repeat, overlap, separate and blend into each other with wispy, broken and smudged lines. ![]() In the process each generation of the original image is degraded, and at the same time new information is added. Long makes original drawings of figures in movement then manipulates the original drawings, through tracing, stamping, copying and transferring them repeatedly onto the paper. The drawings in ink, graphite and fresco plaster on paper, are derived at through a series of re-translations. He considers the nature of human behavior with delicately executed, nuanced images of people in a state of transition. ![]() ![]() His choreographed depictions of individuals expressing the emotive and physical transformation of time and location, are manifested in work ranging from mixed media drawings to animation. I hope this post inspires you to shop a local record store this weekend and throughout the year, support the artists you love and maybe, just maybe grab some vinyl by bike.George Long’s work addresses the human emotion of wanting, yearning, pining. Before our daughter was born, in lieu of traditional baby shower gifts, we asked friends to bring records that our daughter should grow up with. Beatles were road trips, Madonna was empowerment, Janet was dance, Smashing Pumpkins opened up a whole new world of music, Moby was those awful early-20s, New Pornographers was falling in love with my husband again, Elliot Smith was reeling from a colicky baby and Lorde is mother-daughter bonding. Music, like a bike, has been a source of freedom, refuge and inspiration from childhood to adulthood. Galvin), used the bowls for many a recipe, and have slowly accumulated a modest record collection. Since then, we've watched the film (demolished home's deceased architect & resident, William H. Besides an adventure in a moldy house that was ripe for a horror movie scene, they came home with 8 mm film, mixing bowls and a mid-century record player. With our President proposing to completely eliminate funding for Arts and Humanities organizations, I have one plea: support musicians by buying a record from your locally owned store.Ĥ years ago when a modern house next door was set to be demolished, my husband and his two friends outfitted themselves with headlamps and brown liquor for an urban decay spelunk. It was a religious experience and made me realize more than ever, how important music is for our collective well being. We went to KEXP's "Bed In", our first trip to their studios, on January 20th, inauguration day and then to the Women's March in Seattle that weekend.
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