Georgia Pugh - Painter
ABOUT GEORGIA PUGH
Georgia Pugh is a painter who lives on a former farm in Western Massachusetts with her husband, Milton Howard. Educated at Smith College and the University of Wisconsin, she has also lived in New York City, Philadelphia, Colorado and Los Angeles. Besides working in the studio, her interests include swimming, choral singing and traveling to seek out subjects for her onsite drawings.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT

The "Seawall Series" portrays ruined structures of iron, concrete, rock and rebar, built to keep the water from the land. These eroded and cataclysmically broken walls present the paradox of powerful forms which, simltaneously imply the precarious nature of their existence.I use imagery to provoke a sense of the perpetual interaction and struggle between human will and the forces of nature. As a result of the intensity of color, compositonal force and movement, viewers are drawn into the drama of inevitability and pathos.
COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS
Georgia Pugh’s work is in numerous public and corporate collections throughout the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum; the Library of Congress, Boston Public Library, The Print Club of Philadelphia, Bristol Meyers Company, Prudential, Inc., Meriden Gravure Company, Himont, Inc., and J.P. Morgan.  Her paintings and drawings have been featured in solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries, including the Luise Ross Gallery, The Drawing Center, and Associated American Artists, in New York City; the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado; the Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke,  and the Springfield Museums, in Massachusetts.