NAME: Christy Georg
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BIRTH DATE: 5.18.75
BIOGRAPHY
Christy Georg has been called “a sculptor of wit and ingenuity, clearly in the tradition of Jean Tinguely and Bruce Nauman” by Rob Fisher. She has exhibited widely, and been granted residencies from Vermont Studio Center, Boston’s Berwick Research Institute, the Roswell AIR program, the MacDowell Colony, the Fine Arts Work Center, SculptureSpace, Pouch Cove, and the Centre des Arts Ross Creek. Solo exhibitions include the Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams, the Roswell Museum, Gettysburg College, and University of Massachusetts at Lowell. She is a 2006 recipient of a Sea Grant from the University of Rhode Island. Raised in Houston, she received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute, and a MFA from Massachusetts College of Art. She is now embarking upon a nautical-based body of sculpture, influenced by her experience living and working on a tallship.
