EileeGeorge.Art

Eilee George is a mixed media artist living and working in Colorado. The area’s abundant beauty, as well as the human psychological states that are eased by it, inspire much of her acrylic and mixed media paintings, her digital photography, and her ink, graphite, and/or colored-pencil drawings in their subject matter, while her painting technique that she developed–Neopixelism–is derived from a desire to demonstrate to the world that humankind is not only united by the same atomic makeup, but are also linked, similarly to how molecules are, into symbiotic and interdependent relationships. She strives to create an acknowledgement, a connection, a catharsis and an inner peace in her viewers, in order to soothe and counter this age of emotional and mental anxiety.

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DETAILS

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BIO

Eilee George is a contemporary artist currently living and working in Denver, Colorado. She was born in 1968 in Little Rock, Arkansas. She primarily paints in acrylics, but also works in colored pencil, graphite, charcoal, pastels, fibers, photography, and mixed media. She is experimenting in multimedia works, combining digital art with traditional, and including music and poetry she composes.

She developed an original painting style she coined Neopixelism, following and developing further the fledgling Pixelist works of the 1970’s and 80’s. In her vibrant and highly patterned works, she uses lines and shapes that vibrate with life, suggesting the unifying atomic nature of us all, as well as the connections between us, echoing molecular structures in her more recent work. Her paintings read as different experiences up close than they do far away: dancing currents of shapes, and the lines that connect them, seem to gel–like works of the Impressionists–into a more cohesive image, echoing the way humans sometimes get lost in the forest for the trees…or even the leaves. Her aesthetic is dynamic and modern, and her colors are joyous, while her handling of light and shadow are dramatic and evoke the contrasts between the darker and lighter aspects of life itself.

In her beginning years as an artist, she studied obsessively to become a photorealist, and drew and sold abundant portraits and figure studies. As she mastered realism, she sought to find her own voice rather than merely regurgitating reality. She also turned to nature as she isolated socially from people following numerous traumatic experiences, preferring to show the world in an idealized state before humans spoiled it. She cycled through Surrealism, Impressionism, Expressionism, and Nonrepresentational Abstraction before pulling back into her own style based on brushwork and a philosophy of the makeup and interactions of the universe.

One of her earlier series in her mature years, the Forestree collection, depicts trees in various seasons with progressive arrangements of brushstrokes, ranging from almost a static grid, to overlapping horizontal and vertical strokes, to diagonal strokes, to freer, random strokes, to some that even seem to nest within and float above one another; yet, amazingly, each of the images still congealed into cohesive images from the distance dictated by their respective scales. Trees had been an obsession for her since she was a little girl, with her father’s scheme to persuade her to apply herself to her scholastic studies (with which she was bored) by bribing her through a visit from the local art star in their small town. The artist explained that he used almost every school subject in his art, and offered to teach her to draw one thing of her choosing if she brought her grades back up. She chose trees, and applied herself to her schoolwork. When that same artist was too busy to fulfill his promise, she was undaunted, and with her newfound academic attitude, she studied botanical resources and drew in the field until her trees gained the life she craved.

Her second major series, the Holy Land series, still incidentally included plant life, but also allowed her to branch out into architectural and other environmental subjects as well as spiritual topics. It was in this phase that she decided to integrate written messages into her work–in this case particularly, scripture. As an artist and a believer, she decided that it was appropriate to weave the words into the natural patterns of her Neopixelist painting to almost conceal them from a distance, so that one must get close and study the work to glean the message, parallel to how the faithful are instructed to read the Bible: not by skimming it, but to meditate on each passage to more deeply comprehend its meaning.

Eilee studied at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, USA, studying drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture and woodworking. She at first aimed for a BFA, but at her parents’ insistence, instead obtained a Bachelor of Science in Art Education in 1990. But she felt more of a calling to art production than art education, and, confident in her conceptual abilities, chose a program that would teach her a wide variety of production skills. She earned an Associate of Applied Science in Industrial Design Technology from the Art Institute of Colorado in Denver, Colorado, USA by 1995. The disciplines she studied there included more woodworking, welding, mold-making and plastics manipulations, theatrical set design, lighting design, a beloved dive into furniture design and fabrication, and her eventual deep love of architectural model building, which tied not only back into her childhood hobby of building dollhouses and furniture, but also into a demi-career of being an architectural model builder and coordinator of a model shop. (Perhaps notably, there were never dolls in her dollhouses; they threw off the scale.) Echoes of this structural hobby and career can be seen referenced and scattered through different stages of her work, and eventually it also infused into her landscape photography when she found a love of abandoned places that reminds her that we are all finite.

The artist briefly taught art in public schools and had various art-adjacent jobs, including graphic and website design. She has not sought contests and exhibitions so much as focusing on developing her unique oeuvre. When she has shown, it has been largely in Joplin and St. Louis, Missouri, and more recently in Denver, Colorado–from 1984 through to the time of this writing (2025). She is now ready to reach out to participate more in the legitimate art world, armed with a rich, dynamic and unique style, and messages that are poignant and ever-evolving.

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Eilee George

Born 1968 in Little Rock, Arkansas, the United States of America

Residing and working in Denver, Colorado, USA

EDUCATION

EXHIBITIONS

2021, Escape show, Next Gallery, Denver, Colorado, the United States of America

2014, Small Works show, Core Gallery, Denver, Colorado, the United States of America

2012, Members Show, Carla Wright Gallery, Denver, Colorado the United States of America

2011, ColorUsSpring show, Carla Wright Gallery, Denver, Colorado, the United States of America (featured artist)

2008, Staff Art Show, RNL Architecture, Denver, Colorado, the United States of America

2007, Bough House benefit silent auction/One Home, Cherry Creek/Denver, Colorado, the United States of America

1995, Graduate Portfolio Exhibition, Art Institute of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, the United States of America

1992, Members Show, Academy of Arts Gallery, Ellisville/St. Louis, Missouri, the United States of America

1986, Members Exhibition, Gables Gallery, Joplin, Missouri, the United States of America

ART FAIRS

2012, Downtown Denver Arts Festival, Denver, Colorado, the United States of America

2012, Art in the Domain Art Festival, Austin, Texas, the United States of America

COLLECTIONS

Ms. Wadsworth, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Mr. & Mrs. Flagg, Highlands Ranch, Colorado, the United States of America

Ms. Smith, Lakewood, Colorado, the United States of America

Mr. and Mrs. Levy, Denver, Colorado, the United States of America

Mr. Winkler, Manchester, Missouri, the United States of America

Mr. & Mrs. Campbell, Parker, Colorado, the United States of America

Mr. Rogers, Naperville, Illinois, the United States of America

Mr. & Mrs. Burgoon, Grand Rapids, Michigan, the United States of America

Ms. Kyle, Atlanta, Georgia, the United States of America

Mr. & Mrs. Spaeth, Cape Coral, Florida, the United States of America

Dr. & Mrs. Ellefson, Carthage, Missouri, the United States of America

AWARDS

2007, 2nd Place, Bough House benefit & silent auction, One Home, Cherry Creek/Denver, Colorado, the United States of America

1986, 1st & 3rd Place (drawing division), Webb City High School, Webb City, Missouri, the United States of America

1986, 1st Place (drawing division), Webb City High School, Webb City, Missouri, the United States of America

1986, honorable mention (drawing division), Webb City High School, Webb City, Missouri, the United States of America

SELECTED PRESS

https://www.westword.com/slideshow/first-friday-6195518/6195533 (slide 14)

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