George Rush is an Assistant Professor in the Painting and Drawing program of the Department of Art. He received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally.
In addition to participating in numerous group exhibitions, he has had solo exhibitions at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York; Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen; Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid; Lemberg Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami. He previously taught at Yale School of Art, Vassar College, Rhode Island School of Design, Columbia University, and the University of Tennessee. He was a 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Painting. He will have a solo exhibition at David Richard Contemporary in Santa Fe, New Mexico in March, 2011.