George Spencer

BROOKLYN BOXERS
George Spencer

Born and raised in NYC, Brooklyn is my home. Brooklyn is traditionally a rough and tumble borough, always striving to be better (or best), or at least that is my experience of it. Boxing is simultaneously a thinking man's and a working class sport - both are traits that define myself and my paintings. Two early and ongoing inspirations for my interest in boxer portraits are Brooklyn based. 'On the Waterfront', the well celebrated film about a boxer is set in Brooklyn, and the World Famous Gleason's Gym, which is where so many boxers have practiced and fought - both the winners and the contenders. My work is about the contenders, the bloodied yet unbowed.

School Of Visual Arts, NYC

George Spencer
@GREATBOXERS
866 Prospect Place, Brooklyn N.Y. 11206
347.417.4540
Sheffield64@gmail.com

1981 High School of Art & Design
1984-86 School of Visual Arts
1991-92 Maryland Institute college of arts

EXHIBITIONS/ PROJECTS
June 2022 Honey I shrunk The Kids, 925 Bergen St. NYC
Aug-Sept 2022. Award Ceremony part 3, GAC, Chatham, NY
Aug.-Sept. 2022. Unique New York, 2 Astor Place, NYC
Dec. 2021-22 The History of Tallerier Boriqua, group show
Dec. 2021 Group Show, Wall Works Gallery, Bronx, NY
Jan. 2020. PEOPLE, Brick & Mortar Gallery Easton, PA
2019 Museum of Sports, Warren, NJ
Nov. 2016 Entangled: a group show, REPOP, Brooklyn, NY
Feb. 2016. The Greatest, The Silver room, Chicago, IL
Sept. 2016 Group show, Radiator Gallery, LIC Queens, NY
May,2016 “GIANTS”, LIC ARTS OPEN, Falchi building,
L.I.C. Qu...