Collector's Chair III, 1985
Linocut on Handmade Paper, 22 1/2" x 29"
Georgia Deal was born in New York City in 1953. She completed a B.A. in fine arts in 1975 at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg and an M.F.A. in printmaking at the University of Georgia in Athens in 1977. Known as a master printmaker and papermaker, Deal has also been a visiting artist and has taught at numerous universities on the East Coast and abroad. She has exhibited widely, and her work can be found in several collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, and the Phillip Morris Collection. Her symbolic narratives, which often feature abstract, basketlike vessels or vortexes, mine the perennial themes of memory and anticipation, emptiness and fecundity. Her work abounds in humor and mystery, qualities that are complemented by the seductive surfaces of her handmade paper.
*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.