Virtual Reality 2
- Oil on Canvas
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80 x 72 x 2.25 in
(203.2 x 182.88 x 5.72 cm)
- $11,459
- George Oswalt
'Virtual Reality 2,' by George Oswalt, Oil on Canvas Painting
This large scale 80" x 72" oil painting by George Oswalt features a summertime theme of women and girls at the beach with a beachball and seagull in the foreground. The two young girls are dressed identically in blue one piece swimsuits and one holds a plastic blow-up toy while the other holds the hand of a fully dressed young woman. The taller woman stands sideways in the foreground gazing at the viewer in a state of undress only wearing high heels. The painting is a study of the progression of time between youth and womanhood.
George Oswalt had his first one-man show in 1974 and since has shown in national and regional exhibitions including group and one-person shows. He received his MFA in 1993 from the University of Oklahoma. He has taught art in both high school and college over a 30-year period. Oswalt wrote an art review for the Oklahoma Gazette for two years and is currently painting full time. He is included in both private and public collections including the Fred Jones Art Museum in Norman, the Goddard in Ardmore the Mabee-Gerrer Museum in Shawnee and the Oklahoma State Museum of Art in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
"My paintings of figures and objects in vivid color are meditations on living in a hybrid world which has manifested into visual poems of beauty, yearning, time and space. I have spent years working in several series of paintings that deal with weightlessness, loss and life transitions. The imagery is intended to take the viewer on a journey of human yearning which is not merely marked by striving towards something but also by escaping from something." -- George Oswalt
- Subject Matter: Figurative
- Created: 2017
- Collections: Artsy: Summer Heat Exhibition - August 2020, Large Scale Paintings, Local Oklahoma Art