Modern and Contemporary Artist Sculpture by Christopher Georgesco. Abstract Monumental Sculpture.

1950 - Lincoln, Nebraska 1951 - 1968 Grew up in Brentwood, CA Father - Internationaly noted Modernist Architect ,1908 - 1977 Mother - Mid Century Fashion Designer, Modern Painter Studio's 1968 - 1983 Studio, Venice Beach, CA 1983 - 1994 Studio, Los Angeles, CA 1994 - 2010 Studio, Palm Springs, CA

2009 - City of Palm Springs , "Male Figure Balzac" to be installed at Palm Canyon Drive & Andreas Road. Palm Springs , CA - Royal Carribean Cruise Lines , "Oasis of the Sea" (Largest cruise ship in world by 40%), Sculptures Installed, Finland. Ships Port, Florida - Dec 9, 2009. 2008 - Guest of Honor Christopher Georgesco, " A Romanian Architect in The U.S.A.", Centenar 1908 - 2008, Haralamb ( Bubi) Georgescu, "Mincu Univerisity of Architecture and Urbanism", Bucharest, Romania - Install Sculpture at Newly Restored 1958 "Pasinetti Residence", Haralan H. Georgescu Architect A.I.A., Summitridge, Beverly Hills, CA. - Donate Portion of Father's Architectual Archives to " The Getty Research Institute". Los Angeles, CA - "Receptor" 30ft. high Stainless Steel Sculpture relocated from Plaza Pasadena to storage in Armory Park to Pasadena City College, CA 2007 - Contacted by "Willow Glen Partners" about 1958 "Pasinetti Residence Restoration", by Haralamb Georgescu, Beverly Hills, CA - Meetings with Wim De Wit, Head of Special Collections and Visual Resources, Curator of Architectual Collections,The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA - Meet with Los Angeles Historical Society about "Passinetti Residence" Historical Status, Beverly Hills, CA 2006 - " New Paintings", Thaipoon, Roermond, The Netherlands 2005 - "Leaving the Square," NEWSPACE, Los Angeles, CA 2004 - Build "New Leaf Sculptures" and "New Painting on Overlaped Painted Plexi", Riverside County Studio, Palm Springs, CA 2003 - "New Painting & Sculpture", NEWSPACE, Los Angeles, CA 2002 - Abandon Black and White Steel Volumes . Start "Leaf Series" / "Arc Radius Pieces", Riverside County Studio, Palm Springs, CA 2001 - "Isotopes ", NEWSPACE, Los Angeles, CA 2000 - Start building White Steel Column's / "Isotopes", Riverside County Studio, Palm Springs, CA 1999 - "Urns & Vessels", NEWSPACE, Los Angeles, CA 1998 - Start building Black Sculptures.,"Urns & Vessels", Riverside County Studio, Palm Springs, CA 1995 - 1998 - Participated in Local Group Shows: - "Vallarie Miller Gallery",Corporate Way Complex, Palm Desert, CA - "Gallery Blu", El Paseo , Palm Desert, CA - "Art on El Paseo", Palm Desert, CA 1995 - Leave South Central, L.A. / Buy Home in Desert. Build Outdoor Metal Fabrication Studio / Sculpture Garden, Riverside County, Palm Springs, CA 1994 - Married to Marijon (Maria) Verstappen. Spend time in Neatherlands. Visit Germany and Belgium. 1990 - 1993 Finish working in Concrete and Stainless Steel". Begin working in "Painted Steel", South Central, Los Angeles, CA 1990 - "Concrete and Stainless Steel", Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1989 - 1990 Move to New Studio and set up for "Concrete and Stainlerss Steel" Sculpture Fabrication, South Central, Los Angeles, CA 1983 - 1988 - Art Director // FRANCE: Paris, Monaco, Du Cap, St. Tropez, Nice, Cannes, Arles, Loire Valley, Aix-en Provance, Versailles, Lyon, Marseille. // ITALY: Rome, Perugia, Milan, Florence, Spoletto, Assisi, San Remo, Pietrasanta, Carrera, Bologna, Siena, Tuscani, Pisa, Venice. // NETHERLANDS: Amsterdam, Maastrict, Sittard, Heel, Eindhoven. // GERMANY: Aachen. // SWITZERLAND: Zurich, St. Moritz, Bern, Zerrmatt, Lucerne. // BELGIUM: Brussels, Brugge, Antwerp. // ENGLAND: London, Stone Henge. // ASIA: Singapore, Bali, Indonisia. // AUSTRALIA: Sydney, Melbourne. // MEXICO: Mexico City, Taxco, Guadalajara, Guymas, Puerta Vallarta, San Miguel, Guanajuato, Acapulco. // YUCATAN: Cancun, Merrida, Cuernavaca. // AMERICA: Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Maui, Kaui, Oregon, Seattle, Washington, San Francisco, Berkley, Oakland, Atlanta, Las Vegas, New Orleans, New York, NY, New Jersey, Chicago. // CANADA: Vancover, Victoria Island, Montreal. 1983 - "Christopher Georgesco: New Aluminum Sculpture", Newspace, Los Angeles, CA 1982 - "Stainless Steel Pieces", NEWSPACE, Los Angeles, CA 1981 - "Nine Year Retrospective", NEWSPACE, Los Angeles, CA 1980 - "Georgesco: New Sculpture", NEWSPACE, Los Angeles, CA - Install 24 foot high "Stainless Steel "Split Plane" Sculpture "Receptor" at The Plaza Pasadena, City of Pasadena, CA 1979 - "Georgesco: Split Plane Series", NEWSPACE, Los Angeles, CA 1978 - "Christopher Georgesco: Sculpture", NEWSPACE, Los Angeles, CA 1977 - "Christopher Georgesco: Tripods and Columns", NEWSPACE, Los Angeles, CA 1976 - "Concrete Columns", NEWSPACE, Los Angeles, CA 1975 - Start Building Concrete and Steel Columns, Venice, CA 1974 - "Floor Pieces", Studio, Venice, CA 1973 - "Cement Block", Studio, Venice, CA 1972 - "Wood and Canvas Pieces", Studio, Venice, CA 1971 - Quit Santa Monica City College. Make Art full time. 1970 - Lease 5,000 square feet on Abbot Kenny, Venice, CA 1969 - Finish "Balance Beam Series" started in 1968 1968 - Move to Venice Beach, CA. - Attend Santa Monica City College.

2009 - 100 Kuenstler-100 Kacheln, Zinkhutter Hof Museum, Stolberg, Germany (Catalog)

2007 - "For the Children", Ludwig Forum Museum of Art, Aachen, Germany (Catalog)

2005 - 2006 "Experience Color" El Paseo Exhibition: Palm Desert = Art Destination,"City of Palm Desert, CA 2003 - "LAPD: Pattern & Decoration in Los Angeles" Rosamond Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Curated by Michael Duncan. September. - "Sculpture Outlet" Newspace, Los Angeles, CA 2000 - "New Sculpture at Newspace," Newspace, Los Angeles, CA 1998 - Permanent Collection, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 1997 - Gramercy International Art Fair at the Chateau Marmont with Newspace, Hollywood, CA 1996 - Gramercy International Art Fair at the Chateau Marmont with Newspace, Hollywood, CA - "Newspace in Las Vegas", CAC, Las Vegas, NV - "Selected Gallery Artist", Gallery Blu, Palm Desert, CA 1995 - "Gallery Artist" , Vallarie Miller Gallery, Palm Desert, CA. 1994 - "Balls", Newspace, Los Angeles, CA 1992 - "Real Space; Sculpture Survey", The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA 1988 - Hoffman / Borman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1988 - MOCA Contemporary Art, L.A. / Third Biennial Art Auction (Catalog) 1987 - "A Southern California Collection", Cirrus Gallery Los Angeles, CA (Catalog) 1984 - "Constructed Metal - Modern Sculpture", College of Creative Studies, (Catalog) - University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA (Catalog) - "Broad Spectrum: Contemporary LA Painters and Sculptors 84" (Catalog) - The Design Center of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (catalog) 1983 - Santa Monica City College, Sculpture Garden, Santa Monica, CA 1982 - "Aspects of Sculpture", John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1982 - The Brook House Sculptutre Invitational at Kaiser Center, Curated by The Oakland Museum (Catalog) 1980 - " Sculpture in California; 1975 - 1980", San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (catalog) - "The Plaza Pasadena", Pasadena Civic Center, Pasadena, CA 1979 - "Newspace in San Diego", University Art Museum, California State University San Diego, San Diego, CA - "Our Own Art", Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Sculpture Garden, Newport Beach, CA 1977 - "Four Californians", La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA (catalog) - "Recent Acquisitions: Selected Works 1974-1977", La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA - "Big Summer", Newspace, Los Angeles, CA 1976 - "Los Angeles 8", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalog) - St. Augustine Church, Santa Monica, CA - "Five Sculptors - USA", Carl Schlossberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA 1973 - Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona Del Mar

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2009 - "For The Children", Kunstler Les Artistes, ( Katalog), Zinkhutter Hof Museum of Art, Stolberg, Germany

2009 - Palm Springs Sun, May 22, 2009. Palm Springs City Art Council Recomending Male Figure Balzac by

2009 - Los Angeles Times, 1-17-09, Home Section, "Modernism Squared", by Jeffrey Head

2007 - Kunstler, Les Artiste, ( Katalog ), Ludwig Fourm Musumn of Art, Aachen, Germany

2006 - "Hip Hollywood Homes" Author, Sue Hostetler, Clarkson Publishers, Page 93

2005 - "Experience Color" 2005-06 El Paseo Exhibition, Palm Desert=Art Destination,CA.

2003 - Miles, Christopher, "Sculpture" ARTFORUM, Summer Issue - Frank, Peter, "Pick of the Week" LA WEEKLY, June 6-12 - Myers, Holly, LOS ANGELES TIMES, "Branching Out", May 23. - "Georgesco Works Sizzle" LOS ANGELES TIMES, May 1 - Parr, Jorie, "Desert Inspires Artist" THE DESERT SUN, April 27. 2000 - Martin, Victoria, "New Sculpture at Newspace," ARTWEEK, September 1999 - Pagel, David, LOS ANGELES TIMES, January 14 1990 - LOS ANGELES TIMES, August - ANGELES Magazine August, Christopher Georgesco at Jan Turner, L.A. 1987 - Wortz, Melinda, "A Southern California Collection", catalog, Cirrus Gallery, December 86- January 87 1984 - "A Broad Spectrum; Contemporary LA Painters and Sculptors '84", catalog, - The Design Center of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA - "Constructed Metal: Modern Sculpture", catalog, College of Creative Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, January - February, p 5 reproduction 1983 - Muchnic, Suzanne, "The Galleries", LOS ANGELES TIMES, February 25, p 13-14, reproduction - Estes, Jane, "Pasadena Bridges Falling Down, Going Up", STAR NEWS, April 25, p A43, reproduction 1982 - Loper, Mary Lou, "Art Lady Hits the Gallery Road", LOS ANGELES TIMES, April 1, p 2 1981 - Muchnic, Suzanne, LOS ANGELES TIMES, February 5, p 13-14, reproduction - Armstrong, Richard, "Christopher Georgesco at Newspace", ART IN AMERICA, No. 9, November, p 176-177 - Wilson, William, LOS ANGELES TIMES, February 6, p 8 1980 - Wilson, William, Muchnic, Suzanne, LOS ANGELES TIMES, February 15 - Hubbard, Harold N., "Sculpture in California 1975-1980", catalog, - San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, May - July, p 34-35 reproduction - "Pasadena's $ 115 Million Plaza Officially Opens", LOS ANGELES TIMES, September 28, p 30 1979 - Armstrong, Richard, "Los Angeles", ARTFORUM, November, p 76-77, reproduction - Muchnic, Suzanne, LOS ANGELES TIMES, February 16, p 12 - "Newspace in San Diego", catalog, University Art Museum, - California State University San Diego, San Diego, CA, reproduction - Singerman, Howard, "Preserving Constructivism", ARTWEEK, March 3, p 5 1978 - Wilson, William, "A Critical Guide to the Galleries", LOS ANGELS TIMES, February 24, p 12 - "More Art News", LOS ANGELES TIMES, June - Goerz, Gay, "Sculpture Dedicated", EVENING OUTLOOK, Current Living, June 5, reproduction 1977 - Wilson, William, "A Critical Guide to the Galleries", LOS ANGELES TIMES, February 11, p 11 - Wilson, Willam,LOS ANGELES TIMES, February 25 - Spelman, Martha, "Geometry in Concrete", ARTWEEK, March 5, Vol. 8, #10, reproduction - Muchnic, Suzanne, "Four Abstractionists - Krebs, Spence, - Therrien, Georgesco", ARTWEEK, August 27, Vol. 8, #28, P 8 - Wortz, Melinda, "Psychological Manipulations", ARTNEWS, May issue, p 104-106, reproduction - Armstrong, Richard, "Four Californians", catalog, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, reproduction 1976 - Wilson, William, "A Critical Guide to the Galleries", LOS ANGELES TIMES, February 20, p 10 - Seldis, Henry J./Wilson, William, "A Critical Guide to the Galleries", LOS ANGELES TIMES, February 27, p 4 - "More Art News", LOS ANGELES TIMES, April 11 - Wilson, William, "Surfeit of Cinderellas at LACMA", LOS ANGELES TIMES, April 4, - Ianco-Starrels, Josine, 'LA 8 Due at County Museum", LOS ANGELES TIMES, April 14, p 4 - LOS ANGELES TIMES, View Section, April 14 - "LA 8: Painting and Sculpture '76", catalog, Los Angeles County - Museum of Art, April - May 1976, reproduction - "Art News", LOS ANGELES TIMES, May 16 - Marmer, Nancy, "L.A. 1976: The Dark Underside", ARTFORUM, July issue, p 32-35, reproduction - Jacobs, Jody, "A Big Apple Benefit for a Health Center", LOS ANGELES TIMES, December 22, p 2-3 1972 - Leopold, Michael, "New Names, New Faces", THE ART GALLERY, October issue, p W5, reproduction

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Grand Hyatt Hotel, Tokyo, Japan

City of Palm Springs, CA

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Santa Barbra Museum of Art, CA

La Jolla Musem of Contemporary Art, CA

Laguna Museum of Art, CA

University of California Los Angeles, CA

University of California Santa Barbara

Pasadena City College, CA

Knapp Communicatons, Los Angeles, CA

McCrory Corporate, New York, NY

King World Productions, Merv Griffin, Los Angeles, CA

Valley Presbyterian Hospital, Los Angeles, CA

Raychem Corporation, Menlo Park, CA

Warner Brothers Records, Los Angeles, CA

Pasadena Plaza, City of Pasadena, CA

Sea Horse Corporation, Installation Manzanillo, Mexico

Princes Cruise Lines, Installation Italy

Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Installation Norway

Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington, DC

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