Bill Georgia
Select Group Exhibitions, Awards, Commissions
2023 Art at The Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International Airport sponsored exhibition, “Plus 1 Athens” Show Flyers from a Legendary Scene 1967-2002, Atlanta
2019 Atlanta/Fulton County Arts and Culture Public Art Program Recent Purchases Exhibition
2018 Atlanta Regional Commission, Hapeville, GA. Arts Initiative sponsored Arts Exhibition Curated by Brutal Studios Gallery
Faculty/Staff Art Exhibit at The Ferst Center for the Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology
2017 Hambidge Center for the Arts sponsored Invitational Exhibition, Creative HiVE Art Exhibit at Colony Square in Atlanta
Annual Juried Exhibition, Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens Curated by Harry DeLorme, Telfair Museum, Savannah
Annual Juried Exhibition, Callenwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta Curated by Susan Bridges, WhiteSpace Gallery, Atlanta
2014 “Art Rocks Athens” Drawing/Painting Exhibition, UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens
“Between Rock & an Art Place”, Athens Music and the Arts Exhibition, Lyndon House Center for the Arts in Athens
2007-12 Kimberly Clarke Corporation, commission to paint 80’ Annual Fundraising mural, Atlanta 1987-90 The Atlanta Journal & Constitution editorial page commissioned illustrations, Atlanta 1986 The Nexus Press Event graphic poster commissions, Atlanta
1980-87 Music/Theater/Event graphic poster commissions, Athens, Atlanta
Rat+Duck Playhouse, Acme Theater, Dancer’s Collective, Limbo District, Dreams So Real, The Lyndon House Arts Center, Nexus Press
1978 UGA Scholarship - Painting & Art History, University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program, Cortona Italy
Select Publications
2021 Plus 1 Athens, Show Flyers from a Legendary Scene 1967-2002 — published by Chunklet Industries, Atlanta
2019 Studio Visit Magazine, published by New American Paintings, Boston, MA 2018 Georgia Tech Arts Magazine, 2018-2019 Season, Atlanta
2015 Eyedrum Periodically, published by Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery, Atlanta
Select Set Design
1990 “The Lizard of Tarsus”, Georgia Council for the Arts and Seven Stages Theatre, Atlanta 1989 “White People”, Georgia Council for the Arts and Seven Stages Theatre, Atlanta
“Big Bend”, Acme Theater & Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
1988 “Anti-Gravity”, Georgia Council for the Arts, Alternate ROOTS/Rockefeller Foundation, Atlanta, GA & the New Music America Festival Miami, FL
“Math and Aftermath, Seven Stages Theatre & National Endowment for the Arts, Atlanta
1983 “Mabus & Molpus are the Map of Athens” Rat+Duck Playhouse, Athens
1982 “Dog at a House of Fire” Rat+Duck Playhouse, Athens “A Cake with 12 Tiers” Rat+Duck Playhouse, Athens
Education / Arts Associations
2024 Represented by Linda Matney Gallery, Williamsburg, VA
2023-4 Support and contributor for The Chunklet Music Preservation Project, Atlanta
1981-84 Contributing author/artist/performer, Rat+Duck Playhouse, Performance Art Collective, Athens/Atlanta
1979 BFA, Drawing/Painting, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens
All mention of Athens and Atlanta refer to those great cities in the greater state of Georgia.
Field Devils series
This series of large scale oil paintings is loosely based on the notion that Lucifer, needing help with his infinite ambitions to create chaos and division in our world, enlists Field Devils to carry out his agenda. All the seeds of unending turmoil on earth are sewn by these agents including the kind of inner turmoil and self-doubt that is the hallmark of the creative process. The kind that enters the studio at the same time you do, before picking up even a brush.
Hermann Hesse’s short story of the same name follows the travels of one such Field Devil, a reluctant participant in these plans as it turns out, set in the early biblical era just as Christianity was taking a foothold. Spiritual aspiration, solitude, and loss are all touched on as he moves in those circles, on the run from “the onslaught of the Saints” and the establishment of the new Christian god. As for this Field Devil, a new sheriff is in town.
The paintings are robust, energetic and full of suggestion yet do not literally illustrate the story. There is no strict representation of the these states of being in the work, instead they are new images drawn from those few short pages that drip with the quest for reconciliation and personal betterment and reside in a dream state, directing our attention to a fleeting moment or a hint of something that can’t be seen and feels just out of reach, leaving as much room as possible for a chance the viewer’s imagination can be moved and uplifted, maybe even inspired.
Bill Georgia
Field Devils series
This series of large scale oil paintings is loosely based on the notion that Lucifer, needing help with his infinite ambitions to create chaos and division in our world, enlists Field Devils to carry out his agenda. All the seeds of unending turmoil on earth are sewn by these agents including the kind of inner turmoil and self-doubt that is the hallmark of the creative process. The kind that enters the studio at the same time you do, before picking up even a brush.
Hermann Hesse’s short story of the same name follows the travels of one such Field Devil, a reluctant participant in these plans as it turns out, set in the early biblical era just as Christianity was taking a foothold. Spiritual aspiration, solitude, and loss are all touched on as he moves in those circles, on the run from “the onslaught of the Saints” and the establishment of the new Christian god. As for this Field Devil, a new sheriff is in town.
The paintings are robust, energetic and full of suggestion yet do not literally illustrate the story. There is no strict representation of the these states of being in the work, instead they are new images drawn from those few short pages that drip with the quest for reconciliation and personal betterment and reside in a dream state, directing our attention to a fleeting moment or a hint of something that can’t be seen and feels just out of reach, leaving as much room as possible for a chance the viewer’s imagination can be moved and uplifted, maybe even inspired.
Bill Georgia