Jeffery Geller (NC), The Geometry of Promise

Painted collage, signed at lower right, labeled to the verso, matted and framed below glass. Sight size 30 x 18 in.; Frame dimensions 41 x 29 in. Being sold to benefit NC Modernist, a non-profit documentation of Modernist houses across North Carolina. Jeffery Geller is an American contemporary artist and educator based in Red Springs, North Carolina. After moving from Wyoming to Southern California in 1959, he studied painting and sculpture at California State University, Northridge, where he earned his bachelor's degree. He continued his graduate studies at Duke University, studying under painter Vernon Pratt and engaging with artists and scholars Irwin Kremen and Paul Ziff. Beginning in 1983, Geller taught philosophy and logic at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, maintaining close ties with the university's art department until his retirement in 2018. His artistic practice encompasses painting, sculpture, collage, ceramics, and mixed media. Geller has exhibited at the Armory Gallery in Fayetteville (2006), the Hogarth Biennial in New York (2014), and Art in Bloom Gallery in Wilmington (2018), among other venues. He received an Artist Support Grant from the Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County in 2024 and has earned several awards in regional juried exhibitions. He is also co-owner of Red Springs Artspace, a gallery dedicated to exhibiting contemporary and regional artists. Good estate condition.

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