George Woodman

George Edgar Woodman (April 27, 1932 – March 23, 2017) was an American ceramicist, painter, and photographer.

Biography Woodman went to Harvard University and married Betty Woodman (née Elizabeth Abrahams) in 1953.

After earning a master's degree in painting at the University of New Mexico, he taught painting and art criticism at the University of Colorado at Boulder until 1996.

The Woodmans' son, Charles, was born in 1955 and became Associate Professor of Electronic Art at the University of Cincinnati.

Their daughter was photographer Francesca Woodman; she was born in 1958 and died by suicide in 1981. Woodman selected some of his daughter's journal entries for publication in the book Francesca Woodman edited by Chris Townsend (Phaidon, 2006).

Death George Woodman died in his home in New York on March 23, 2017, aged 84.

Ceramics Until the early 1970s, George Woodman painted the ceramic work of Betty Woodman. a 1991 tile mural Ode to the West Wind in the Temple Buell Theater in Denver, Colorado and a 2004 tile mural Path Games at the Detroit People Mover's Renaissance Center Station.

Path Games was a replacement for Dreamers and Voyagers Come to Detroit, a similar tile mural also created by Woodman in 1987 for the original Renaissance Center Station, which was demolished in 2002 to allow removal of the concrete berms in front of the building.

Painting From the 1950s to the 1980s, Woodman's artistic output consisted largely of colorful oil paintings on canvas. His earliest paintings in the 1950s to the early 1960s were landscapes.

In the early 1960s, he painted abstract works "with heavy, painterly brush strokes," but by the mid-1960s "the paint was applied thinly and evenly" in his abstracts. His paintings have been exhibited in at least two solo shows: "Sensuality in a World of Reason" in 1998

Photography Since the early 1980s, Woodman has concentrated on black-and-white photography. His large-format, black-and-white, still life camera obscura photographs were exhibited in 2004; they involved techniques such as collage-like arrangements, long exposures with movement of objects, and combinations of positive and negative images.