George Tuggle, Artist

BIO

George Tuggle is a painter and graphic designer who lives and works in Maryland. His work has been in several regional and national shows. These venues include Bowie City Hall, Bowie, MD; Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD; Maryland House of Delegates, Annapolis, MD; 39th Street Gallery, North Brentwood, MD; Oxon Hill Manor, Oxon Hill, MD; Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD; Pepco Edison Gallery, Washington, DC; Art Basel, Miami, Fl; The Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, NY and the Cultural Center Gallery at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY.

Working as a graphic designer and editorial illustrator helped George develop his conceptualizing skills. Thinking of creative design and illustrative solutions was a daily requirement for George when working at The Washington Times, Greenville News and Record newspapers.

STATEMENT

I have been working as a graphic designer and editorial illustrator for most of my professional career. A lot of my work involved translating someone else’s ideas into a visual form. As a fine artist I started began working with oil paints on medium to large-size canvases. Here I am, years later, returning home, so to speak, spending more time putting my own thoughts on canvas and paper.


My art reflects my desire to change the way we see things around us. I am inspired to create paintings that take the viewer into an environment from a different vantage point, thus enhancing their experience. For my realistic style of painting, the medium that I work with is acrylic paint.


Shirley Schnell, my Foundations teacher at The Kansas City Art Institute, challenged our class “to walk through life sideways,” to change the way we normally see and experience life. She would encourage us to try to look at, and express a different perspective/ interpretation of the world around us; this is something that I try to convey in my paintings. Other artists that I’m inspired by include Paul Balmer, Bruce Holwerda, John Biggers, Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, Laura Wheeler Waring, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Gustav Klimt, Aaron Douglas, Ivan Powell, Reynolds Ruffin, Thomas Blackshear, Don Miller and A.M. Cassandre (Art Deco), to name a few.

EXHIBITS

2024 Art Basel, World Wide Art-Artavita gallery at Red Dot, Miami, FL
2022 Pull Up A Chair, Group Show, F.H. Faunteroy Community Enrichment Center, Washington, DC
2019 50th Annual Laurel Art Guild Open Juried Exhibition!, Group Show, Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD
2019 Seeking Prince George's!, Group Show, Maryland House of Delegates, Annapolis, MD
2018 Coterie, The Artists of Passageways Studios, Group Show, 39th Street Gallery, North Brentwood, MD
2016 Art Faculty Biennial Exhibition, Group Show, Towson University, Towson, MD
2016 Carnival: Celebrations of the African Diaspora,Group Show, Pepco Edison Gallery, Washington, DC
2015 Illustrators 56, Juried group Show, Towson University, Towson, MD
2014 The Art of Re-Memory: Alumni Artists 1965-2012,Group Show, Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, NY
2014 Art Faculty Biennial Exhibition,Group Show, Towson University, Towson, MD
2014 By Invitation, Group Show, Bowie City Hall, Bowie, MD
2014 Our Roots, Black History Month Tribute, Group Show, Prince George’s Arts & Humanities, Hyattsville, MD
2013 Figuratively Speaking,Group Show, Bowie City Hall, Bowie, MD
2013 The Artists of Passageways Studios, Group Show, 39th Street Gallery, North Brentwood, MD
2013 The Artists of Passageways Studios, Group Show, Bowie City Hall, Bowie, MD
2013 Sweet Sixteen, Juried Members Show, Illustrators Club of DC, Edison Place Gallery, Washington, DC
2013 WaterWorks, Group Show, Bowie City Hall, Bowie, MD
2013 24+24, Waverly Street Gallery’s 6th Annual Invitational Show, Bethesda, MD
2012 Faculty Show, Group Show, Towson University, Towson, MD
2012 Efflorescence, Group Show, Bowie City Hall, Bowie, MD
2012 Away From Home, Group Show, Bowie City Hall, Bowie, MD
2011 Women in History, Group Show of the Prince Georges' Artists Association, Huntington Community Center, Bowie, MD
2011 Retrospective: Bowie Artist of the Month, Group Show, Bowie City Hall, Bowie, MD
2011 City of Bowie Arts Committee,Group Show, Bowie City Hall, Bowie, MD
2011 9th Annual Members Show, Illustrators Club of DC, Art Institute of Washington, Arlington, VA
2010 8th Annual Members Show, Illustrators Club of DC, Art Institute of Washington, Arlington, VA
2010 IC15 Juried Members Show, Illustrators Club of DC, Edison Place Gallery, Washington, DC
2009 7th Annual Members Show, Art Institute of Washington/Illustrators Club of DC, Arlington, VA
2009 Full Circle, Group Show of the Prince Georges' Artists Association, Charles Sumner Museum, Washington, DC
2009 Visually Speaking, Group Show of the Prince Georges' Artists Association, The Madeira School, McLean, VA
2009 Passageways Suites, Group Show, The Learning Center Gallery, Landover, MD
2009 Sands of Time, Group Show, Oxon Hill Manor, Oxon Hill, MD
2009 Faculty Exhibition, Group Show, Bowie State University, Bowie, MD
2008 6th Annual Members Show, Illustrators Club of DC, Art Institute of Washington, Arlington, VA
2008, 2009 La Cuisine Des Artistes, Group Show of the Prince Georges' Artists Association, The Golden Flame Restaurant, Silver Spring, MD
2008 50th Annual Art Faculty Exhibition, Prince George’s Community College, Landover, MD
2008 Pieces of A Dream, Group Show, Annie’s Art Gallery, Camp Springs, MD
2008 Tea and The Arts, Group Show of the Prince Georges' Artists Association, Oxon Hill Manor, Oxon Hill, MD
2008 A Flower Is, Group Show, Prince George’s Arts Council, Hyattsville, MD
2006, 2007 Trailblazer Gala Silent Art Auction, Houston Advertising Federation, Houston, TX
1995 Faculty Exhibit, Gudelsky Gallery, Maryland College of Art & Design, Silver Spring, MD
1987 Group Exhibition, Neighborhood Reinvestment, Washington, DC
1983 Group Exhibit,Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1983 Group Exhibition, Community Folk Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY
1983 Group Exhibit, Cultural Center Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
1980 Student Exhibit, Student Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

PUBLIC ART

2013 Boathouse Mural, Allen Pond Park, Bowie, MD

AWARDS

2013 Process Improvement Innovation Award, NASA's GOES-R satellite program, Greenbelt, MD
2011 Process Improvement Innovation Award, NASA's GOES-R satellite program, Greenbelt, MD
2009 Community Service Award,Town of North Brentwood, MD
2004 3rd Place, Graphics & Illustration Portfolio, New Jersey Press Association
2003 3rd Place, Better Newspaper Contest for Graphics & Illustration,New Jersey Press Association
2003 Newspaper Association of America Minority Fellow, Poynter Institute/Media Studies, St Petersburg, FL
2000 3rd Place, Informational Graphics, South Carolina Press Association
1983 Fellowship Recipient, African American Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1977 Certificate of Merit, Anti-Apartheid Poster Show, New York, NY

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