George Blaha
- Medium type
- Digital image
- Process
- Computer-generated imagery
- Subset
- Architectural
- Year
- 2021
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend
― Jacques Derrida
This is an architectural model for a pavilion at an unspecified location.
The design is based on the form of the mysterious Sabu Disc, an ancient Egyptian artifact of the Old Kingdom.
To produce dreamlike images for dreamlike apparitions to be appreciated by their dreamlike desires, I “make” CGI simulacra of artwork presented within virtual gallery environments. Digital “photo” documentation, in and of itself, is the finished work.
Biography
George Blaha’s work reflects his far ranging interests in ancient history and cultures, science fiction, Buddhist thought and practice, sacred geometry, psychology—and humor.
He studied fine arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, art history and philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and digital arts at Oakton Community College.
Currently, George works on art for online audiences, exhibiting on social media platforms and in virtual gallery exhibitions.
He has also shown at galleries in New York and Chicago. His work has been exhibited at museums and art centers across North America, including the Marsh Art Gallery at the University of Richmond Museums; Stedman Gallery at Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts, Rutgers University; Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota; Gibson Gallery at the Art Museum of SUNY; Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado; the Arts and Science Center for Southeastern Arkansas; Illinois State Museum; and University Galleries at Illinois State University.
George’s work has been discussed in catalogs that accompanied the exhibitions Portage; Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct; and The UFO Show, as well as in Arts Magazine, New City, and the Chicago Tribune. He is featured in Art Is: Speaking Portraits, George Quasha’s on-going web-based video research project investigating practitioners’ definition of what art is. He currently lives and works in Chicago.