1. George Herms was born on 1935 and is an American artist best known for creating assemblages out of discarded, often rusty, dirty or broken every-day objects, and juxtaposing those objects so as to infuse them with poetry, humor, and meaning.
11 Facts About George Herms
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George Herms is known for his works on paper, including works with ink, collage, drawing, paint, and poetry.
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George Herms's parents offered him $100 per month to return to college, so he took the money and "bought some jazz records and lived on $13 per month," and returned to Los Angeles, living for some time in Topanga Canyon, where he met the artists Wallace Berman on the occasion of his 20th birthday.
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George Herms helped Wallace Berman hang his first show in 1957 at Ferus Gallery.
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In 1959, George Herms became an original member of Bruce Conner's Rat Bastard Protective Association.
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George Herms has been a lecturer in Studio Art at University of California, Irvine, and University of California, Los Angeles ; Sculpture at UCLA and University of California, San Diego; and, Public Art at the Santa Monica College of Design, Art and Architecture.
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In 1981, George Herms was an artist in residence at the University of Denver in Colorado, and in 1991 an artist in residence at The Robbins Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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George Herms's work has been selected for group exhibitions, beginning with the "Gangbang" exhibition in 1960 at the Batman Gallery in San Francisco.
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The National Endowment for the Arts George Herms received three Individual Fellowships in 1968,1977 and 1984, respectively.
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George Herms was awarded the Rome Prize, Fellowship in Sculpture from The American Academy in Rome from 1982 to 1983.
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George Herms was granted a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Sculpture from 1983 to 1984.