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-I consider Georges Le Chevallier to be one of the most inventive young artists around today. Le Chevallier has a unique ability to combine his mature sense of draughtmanship with expressive painterly brush stroke. His work is compelling, intelligent, and continually engaging.

Deborah Ann Saleeby

Art of Asia, Oceania, and the Americas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
August 1999

-As I see it Le Chevallier’s paintings address postmodernism without sacrificing an earthy sensuousness. His large scale paintings are always concerned with simultaneity, they consist of a palimpsest of images that range from cityscapes, to scraps of found text (coffee bags) or his own notes, to heraldic or plant motifs. This plurality of images invites us to consider the potential relationship between the public sphere (as in the City), the means of production, be they agricultural or industrial, and heraldry, or the sense of history and identity, i.e. the autograph. Fascinating as Le Chevallier’s multi-layered combinations of images are, it is in his handling of the surfaces textures that Le Chevallier mesmerizes the viewer. These surfaces tend to be rich in overlaps of materials such as burlap, in thick emulsion applications that evoke resin or fossils suspended in amber and in pure saturated primary colors. All these elements, working in tandem, create a dizzying sensuality that seduces us and eases our entry into his view of the self as it is reflected by painting and history.

Miguel Trelles

Professional Artist, New York City, New York
January 2000

-Inspired by the complex character and verve of twenty-first century technology, my paintings attempt to examine the rapid and segmented sense in which society perceives itself in a culture of automated domination. By integrating a distant mass of images, textures, designs and colors, my work strives to evoke a “semi-autobiographical psychological landscape” that embraces the human spirit.

Georges Le Chevallier

2000

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