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Born and educated in New York City,
George Cladis, studied with Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Adja Yunkers. Following an outstanding career in aeronautics/aerospace (Distinguished Fellow, College of Aeronautics), he moved to Paris, France where he was Artist in Residence at the American Center for the Arts and the Cité International des Arts (1969-73). Returning to NYC, he invented novel techniques to portray experiences drawn from a tightly bound immigrant community and the pre-Glasnost industrial-military complex. In 1990, his work, Atomic Dust at Dawn, won first prize at the Cultural and Heritage Affairs of Union County, NJ sponsored by Merck &Co. Then, April Kingsley wrote: a radiance bursts out of agitated, turgid, paint-encrusted surfaces transmuting Cladis' spirituality to the physical canvas that the viewer takes back to the spiritual. George Cladis paints the universal unconscious. |
