George Huffman

In my latest painting series, I have been exploring the juxtaposition of the landscape and the young girl to produce an unsettling feeling. The figure of the young girl suggests liminality; she acts as and within a borderlands region. Her adolescence is a betwixt and between state, associated with aspects of initiation, but what is she being initiated into? As a child, she is a figure that is simultaneously emblematic of anxieties over passing time and a vehicle of hope for the future. She is set within the glorious purity of nature: a setting where the weight of modernization is absent. Both young girl and panoramic landscape are motifs of innocence and vulnerable fragility.

1983-1987 Villanova University, B.F.A.
Fine Art-Painting, Printmaking & Art History

AWARDS
1991 Gregory Battcock Award, William Paterson University
1986–87 Jay J. Dugan Fine Art Scholarship, Villanova University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 IF+D, Austin, TX 2005 3Falk Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2000 RAW Gallery, Tucson, AZ 1999 RAW Gallery, Tucson, AZ 1998 RAW Gallery, Tucson, AZ 1997 Hotel Congress, Tucson, AZ 1997 RAW Gallery, Tucson, AZ 1996 RAW Gallery, Tucson, AZ 1995 RAW Gallery, Tucson, AZ 1994 RAW Gallery, Tucson, AZ 1991 Face Gallery, Hoboken, NJ 1987 Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont, PA 1987 Connelly Center Gallery, Villanova, PA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 The Georgetown Public Library Art Hop, Georgetown, TX 2012 The Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD 2008 IF+D, Austin, TX 2000 DC Harris Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2000 RAW Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2000 Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ 1999 DC Harris Gallery, Tucson, AZ 1999 Arizona State Capital, Phoenix, AZ 1999 Elizabeth Cherry Gallery, Tucson, AZ 1999 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 1998 Tucson Airport Authority Gallery, Tucson, AZ 1998 Tucson-Pima Arts Council Gallery, Tucson, AZ 1998 RAW Gallery, Tucson, AZ 1997 José Galvez Gallery, Tucson, AZ 1997 BERO Gallery, Tucson, AZ 1993 RAW Gallery, Tucson, AZ 1991 Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ 1991 Washington Street Gallery, Paterson, NJ 1991 Ben Shahn Gallery, Wayne, NJ