George Wingate : Letters | Words | and …

January 21 - February 5, 2023


Which came first, the letter or the word?

Or something else?

I field words. 

I field letters. 

I discover the spaces in the fields. 

The spaces are important, as any mathematician will attest. 

Recent findings will be on display at Jane Deering Gallery, 

I will field requests for other words. 

Heavens knows, you have names, words.  

We all do. 

Give me a week for the Muse to work, 

and you will have your piece.

George Wingate

George Wingate, a dear friend of mine for many years, is an artist of multitudinous parts. He was trained in traditional painting at the Art Students League by Frank Mason but is also a postmodernist, a minimalist, a sculptor, a poet and an all over evocator. What is particularly exceptional about his sensibilities is how effortlessly—and with such a fresh hand—he can move from one form to the other.  … George creates a visual stream of consciousness experience, a neural network of ideas, images, humor, sacred objects, connections. Like Samuel Beckett‘s description of his lead character in Murphy, George is one of those “who require everything to remind them of something else.”

— Deborah Barlow