GLANCE GALLERY WEBSITE
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
OCTOBER 2005

Georges Le Chevallier received his MFA in painting at Hunter College in New York. He has shown his work in Hungary, Spain, Puerto Rico, Japan, and throughout the United States, and he has extensive experience with public art installations. His work can be found in a range of collections including the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and the Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art in Japan.

He was born in Paris, France and grew up in Puerto Rico, spending his summers in France. His family moved to Los Angeles, California when he was a teenager, and he has since lived in Madrid, Spain, New York City, and North Carolina. The influences of the various cultures and languages Le Chevallier has encountered have all found their way into his artwork. His work – including large murals, paintings, prints, and photographs – tells his story by layering contrasting imagery and information.

His paintings combine text, paint, and found objects to tell his particular history. The text winds its way across the canvases, bordering maps, photographs, and other artifacts that allude to people and places that seem to have some meaning to the artist. Consequently, viewing the paintings feel like reading a journal or scrapbook. The various artistic influences, bright colors, unusual textures, and seemingly disconnected imagery of his paintings reflect the technical over-stimulation of modern culture and growing up in multiple cultures.