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The roots of Ben Georgia's art lie in the movement known as abstract expressionism. Born in Jersey City, NJ in 1941,
Ben Georgia is in a direct line from the group of artists known as the Irascibles, abstract expressionist painters that
included Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Hans Hoffman, and Adolph Gottlieb. In
1950, these painters along with twelve others and a further ten sculptors put their names to an open letter to Roland
Redmond, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the letter, they rejected an art exhibition planned for the
Metropolitan Museum later that year on the grounds that 'a just proportion of advanced art' would not be included
in the exhibition. The letter dated May 20th, 1950 became, perhaps, the single most important letter in the history of
American art and it set in motion a train of events that paved the way for the rise of abstract expressionism in America.
In 1969, Theodoras Stamos, one of the Irascibles and a signatory to the letter, became Ben Georgia's teacher at
Columbia University and later at the Art Students' League where Ben studied from 1970 to 1975.
B E N G E O R G I A
A B S T R A C T E X P R E S S I O N I S T
INNER SPACES
oil on canvas, 60" x 60" / 152 cm x 152 cm
signed lower right front
