JACK GEORGE
POST SHOW VOL. 2
Jack George (b. 1998) spends his time sifting through and collecting discarded or forgotten knicks and knacks around Los Angeles to create the source imagery and material for paintings and installations. Since receiving a BA from UCLA in 2021, he has been quietly working out of an airplane hangar at the Compton Woodley Airport. His studio serves as a time capsule in flux, capturing lifelong observations of Los Angeles’ detritus and refuse which deepen the city’s ever-shifting landscape. George’s acquisitions of oddities and curio amalgamate within his studio taking on an organic organization of their own. These discarded items are found along the street during walks and drives, or remotely through the ‘free’ section of online resale websites. George’s assembled collections are examined through an anthropological lens that captures the human condition within periods of consumerism, both acquired then abandoned, and their relation to personal narratives of friends and strangers that have contributed to his studio’s physical environment. This amalgamation serves as a surrealist retelling and blending of each person's lives mixed together and reshaped into readymade sculptures and translated into still life paintings. The landscape of his studio’s accumulation that elicits and goads his artwork, is an observational lens to his time spent coming of age in Los Angeles.