A. George Duran

2 Fonda Place
Santa Fe, NM 87508
505-466-2279
duran@pardueduran.com

Hard-edge abstract paintings

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George Duran reinterprets traditional pictorial forms using acrylic paints on paper and canvas, exploring negative and positive space, color, and movement--the basic elements of art the world over.

As a youth, Duran worked alongside his Filipino father in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley. Unable to find employment other than as a farm laborer, Duran joined the Marines during the escalating conflict in Vietnam. Upon his return in 1968, he worked the canneries in Alaska for several seasons, and then upon the advice of brother, New York artist Robert Duran, he began making art.

George Duran briefly taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, and organized programs to increase the enrollment of minorities in the arts elite. He has exhibited in the San Francisco Bay Area, including SOMArts Gallery, Berkeley Art Commission Gallery, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. After moving in the mid-'70s to New York City, Duran joined The National Park Service, working on culturally significant monument sites such as Ellis Island and The Statue of Liberty. He was a member of the team that re-opened Ellis Island in 1976. Returning to San Francisco, Duran spent several years as a cabinetmaker and exhibits preparator at the California Academy of Sciences, while exploring traditional native designs and color field theory in his artwork. Now located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Duran continues to paint with a modernist approach using contemporary art materials.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
• Primitive Edge Gallery, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2006
• Artfest Video, Te Atinga's Te Ra Festival, Toihoukura, Gisborne, New Zealand 2000
• Laws of the Spirit Remain The Same, Berkeley Arts Commission Gallery, Berkeley, CA 1995
• Pacific Barrio, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA 1994
• Three Man Show, Nanny Goat Hill Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1974
• Third World Paintings and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1974
• Small Murals, Museum Intercommunity eXchange (M.I.X.), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1973
• Roots II-The Asian Community, M.I.X., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1972
• Student Shows, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1972-75

EDUCATIONAL TRAINING
• Museum Management, Smithsonian Workshop,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1988
• «Methods of Installing Museum Objects for Exhibition and Storage»,
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, 1987
• BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1974
• MFA program, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1974-75

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