Rebecca George has maintained an active professional studio in Chicago, IL since 1993; her history of materials has focused on drawing, painting and printmaking. In recent years her figure-narrative oil paintings and ink/charcoal drawings moved further into suggestive form with abstraction. In late 2016 George's oil paintings went deeper into nonrepresentational, focusing heavily on material and application method. "Art is an action," says George, "a balance of invention and discovery." Rebecca George stresses the importance of maintaining a detachment from the outcome in order for the paintings to evolve independent of expectations. The surfaces of George's paintings are highly attended to with gestural compositions continuously pushing into new territory. Her influences include Willem DeKooning, Helen Frankenthaler and Paul Gaugain. She holds a BFA from Maryland, Institute, College of Art (1993) and MFA in Painting and Drawing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2009).