George Goodridge

Born in Youngstown Ohio, the son of an architect and structural steel engineer, George Goodridge began his painting studies at the age of 11, after his family moved to Miami. Throughout the years he painted and sculpted in varied mediums both figurative and non-figurative.

After attending both the Art Institute of Chicago and the School of Visual Arts in New York, his work swayed toward the three-dimensional. This was further established by working as a production designer / set designer for the film industry. His most current fine art works are three dimensional canvases which he refers to as dimensional paintings or object paintings. These works are represented in collections both public and private and he currently lives and works between New York City and Miami.

VERTEBRATE COMPANION SERIES

Statement

The goal in these works has been to explore ideas, concepts and or verbal questions/solutions of the concrete world and realize them in a non-subjective or in an abstract way. These current studies contemplate diversity, the relationship between significant parings, likeness and unlikeness and the cohesive way in which they relate to one another. These are not only meant as parings only in the visual sense but are intended to relate to all that we are surrounded with sociologically, trend wise and at times segregatory. These work are both architecturally and naturally inspired simultaneously, invoking the underlying structure of both buildings and bodies.

My Vertebrate Companion Series are fabricated from stretched canvas over wood armatures. What I refer to as the “blemishes” that exist in things in nature, are painted with oil pigments. Although I have displayed them in a specific way, the works have no specific formulas for installation. They may be presented in an infinite number of configurations, without compromising their integrity or intended correctness if “correctness” does in fact exist. The particular installation configurations shown are possibly the more obvious. There are more uncomfortable pairings that would possibly further highlight some of the questions posed by these works. At once separate and together, these Vertebrate Companions possess infinite possibilities.