Location: San Francisco, CA
Medium: Painting, Drawing, Video, Performance, Installation
Website: georgepfau.com
George Pfau is a San Francisco-based multimedia artist whose work explores the human body as a site of transformation, identity, and in-betweenness. He received his MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where his thesis research into monsters and the undead became the foundation of an ongoing practice. His work has been reviewed in KQED Arts, Art Practical, Vice Motherboard, Fast Company, io9, Boing Boing, Kotaku, AV Club, and Esquire Russia, and featured in the academic anthology Zombie Theory (ed. Sarah Juliet Lauro). He has presented his lecture “Zombies, identified” at galleries and universities across the U.S.
Pfau works at the intersection of painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and performance, using the zombie as both subject and conceptual lens. He approaches the zombie not as gore but as a figure for pressing questions of identity — the body that once held a person, now in an in-between state of becoming. His wooden stretcher bars act as skeletal armature; dense, layered oil paint becomes a skin-like membrane. The result sits deliberately in the gray zone between an illegible configuration of marks and an identifiable human form. He describes himself as an “image surgeon” — building and depicting a human-monster from dead materials imbued with time and care.
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