Town, humorously and abstractly exploring the evolution of consciousness. 
Other plays that I've written include the one-act Cripple, about a woman
who believes that her absent husband has taken up residence inside the
living room sofa.


Poetry. As a poet I've been published by the Susquehanna University Press,
the art and literary journal of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design,
the chapbook Poetry Alive in Northwestern Pennsylvania, and the
Los Angeles art and literary magazine Caffeine.


Sculpture & Painting. I attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design
where I did core studies in sculpture (for which I was an Advanced Sculpture
Teaching Assistant), drawing, painting, multi-media, performance, and
installation art. As an abstract expressionist painter my works have been
included in a group show at Gallery 825, the Onyx and the Azatlan Cultural
Arts Center in Los Angeles. The collage designed by Think Hard at the bottom
of each page of this website is composed of various elements from Memphis
George paintings.


Film. At San Francisco State University I spent one year in general film
studies and two years in the selective Film Core, where I produced, wrote
and directed numerous short films dealing with abstracting the narrative
medium. My films have screened at various venues in the Bay Area. In
addition, I've written a feature length narrative screenplay entitled Grand
Mal about the relationship between a mute epileptic boy and a faded country
and western singer/songwriter.  I worked for five years at the San Francisco
Cinematheque (The Foundation for Art in Cinema) where I started as a
volunteer, then became Technical Director and later, Program Coordinator,
assisting Artistic Director Steve Anker. I also curated an avant-garde film
screening for The San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, in
conjunction with FrameLine and a one-time cable access show for the
Cinematheque. While in Los Angeles I worked in commercial production for
four years at various production companies as production assistant and an
assistant coordinator. I worked at Fox for the start up of the joint studio
Latin American Pay TV venture Cinecanal; and for two years as assistant to
Producer Vince Arcaro and Director/ Cinematographer Caleb Deschanel during
the start up of their production company DarkLight Pictures.  In 2004 I
participated in the Film Kitchen Mini-Festival at Pittsburgh Filmmakers and
won an award for my short absurdist film Haschenfigur Haus Frau in the
category of "Best Use of an Appliance".


Functional Art. My interest in functional art led me to start my own
jewelry design business under the name Memphis George in 1999. My work,
which is handcrafted and envisioned entirely by me, is sold at galleries and
boutiques in Florida, Rhode Island, California, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Michigan. Galleries carrying my work include The Gallery of Functional
Art in Santa Monica, CA; Don Drumm Studios and Gallery in Akron, OH;
Gallery Chiz in Pittsburgh, PA; Zipper Art Form + Function in Brooklyn and
Los Angeles. My work can be found in the collections of several celebrities
and various TV and film stylists in Los Angeles. My line of organic inspired
jewelry was photographed to appear in the fashion trade magazine Women's
Wear Daily. I completed a five-week Rotary Group Study Exchange tour of
Southern India in 2001 where I studied the jewelry of that country. I have
been a proud participant in the Three Rivers Arts Festival since 2001, where
I have been ranked in the top 15 percent of the artist market.  In 2009 I won an

Honorable Mention at Three Rivers Arts Frestival and in 2011 I won a Jurors

Choice Award.  I am a juried member of the Craftsmen's Guild of Pittsburgh,

Pittsburgh Society of Artists and Associated Artists of Pittsburgh.  I am a member

of the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council and an artist member of American Craft

Council.  A full list of gallery shows and retail art events that I've participated in

available upon request.

Teaching.  Through a grant obtained by the Washingtion Cultural Arts Center

in Washington, PA from the Pittsburgh based Benedum Foundation, I began

teaching art to at-risk high school students in the Fall of 2010.  My classes are

carefully constructed to integrate a variety of academic subjects into a wide range

of art mediums.  In fun and unexpected ways students learn the physics of sculpture,

the vocabulary of art history, the philosophy of what is mundane and what is

transcendent in painting and drawing, among many other things. My touchstones

for my own art are the same as for my teaching:  innovation and exploration. 

Gallerist.  In January of 2012 I opened Memphis George Fine Art to Wear Jewerly Gallery at

3229 1/2 Glendale Blvd in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Atwater Village.  Along with my jewelry I also host a gallery space in the store that I like to call the "Panopticon Salon".  Here I feature fine and functional art in a vartiety of mediums such as painting-both figurative and abstract, sculpture and clay.