George William Olney

I was born in the New York City area, USA. I have been exhibiting professionally since my first museum shows at DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Ma., and Storm King Art Center, N.Y.,USA, back in the 1970s .I make something everyday. Sometimes it is sculpture, sometimes paintings, sometimes photos. To me it is all about how light interacts with objects.

While at Syracuse in art school in the early 1970's, I had the good fortune to study with the NYC painters Allan de Archangelo and Charles Hinman. While working with them I decided that I would always have an art studio to work in.

Also right after graduating from Syracuse I had the good fortune to work as Exhibition Installer at the Everson Museum working under James Harithas and David Ross. I built the island for Ira Schneider's classic video piece, Manhattan is an Island. I also did a lot of work on Yoko Ono's This is not Here exhibition. Yea I had joints a couple of times with John Lennon on the loading dock. Very interesting guy to talk with. I got the feeling he was always thinking about EXACTLY what he wanted to say.

In the early 1980's I became a professor of art at the University of Maine, Farmington. While teaching I designed the University Art Museum which was reviewed as Ma...

BFA Syracuse University. Graduate School of Architecture, Syracuse. Storm King Art Center, NY,USA. DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Ma. USA. Seattle Art Museum, Sales Gallery, USA. Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA. Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA. Paolo Soleri Arcology Workshop, Arizona, USA. Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico. Galeria Pergola, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Professor of Art, University of Maine, USA and Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. ,