George Woodman

The catalogue for Pattern, Crime & Decoration—a two-part exhibition at MAMCO, Geneva and Le Consortium, Dijon —focuses on the work of artists associated with the Pattern and Decoration movement in the US. It includes paintings by George Woodman and wall-based ceramic sculptures by Betty Woodman.

During his 2004 residency at Grand Arts in Kansas City, Missouri, George Woodman continued his work with one-of-a-kind, large-scale still life photographs, made using a camera obscura.

In honor of the holiday George held most dear, we share one of the many Valentines he made and sent to friends each year.

Beginning his career in the 1950s as an abstract painter, by the mid 1960s George Woodman turned his focus to geometric abstractions grounded in complex patterned systems and rigorous formal structures.

Today we celebrate what would have been Betty and George Woodman’s 67th wedding anniversary.

Happy Birthday to George: artist and writer, classicist and modernist, lifelong explorer and thinker, maestro of color and grisaille.

George Woodman’s pattern paintings, which combine formal rigor with an approach to color influenced by his years in Italy, are featured in this exhibition of works focused on a decorative approach to art.

Paintings by George Woodman reflect his embrace of color and beauty along with a minimalist take on pattern in this exhibition of works which celebrate decorative and non-Western approaches to art.