George Woodman

George Woodman was born in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1932 and he died in 2017. He was a painter and a photographer whose career spanned more than sixty years and included forays into various visual media. He began his career as an abstract painter, best known for his formally inventive tessellations and complex understanding of color. Woodman was deeply influenced by classical and modernist traditions and his extensive international travels. He remained committed to explorations of color and abstraction in a variety of forms, referencing landscape, architecture, geometry and pattern, before embracing representation and turning primarily to photography. He continued over the years an active studio practice centered largely on black and white photographs of nudes in classical architectural and sculptural settings. His photographs derived much from his decades of exploration as a painter, including integrating complex series of patterns; layering abstract and representational imagery in both the darkroom and camera, constructing complex compositions from discreet parts, referencing classical and modernist art, and eventually returning to painting, adding color and geometry to his gelatin silver prints.

Woodman’s work has been exhibited all over the world, throughout the United States, Europe, Mexico, India and Italy.