Georg Vihos

 
 
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Georg Vihos

Born: 1937, Detroit, MI

Died: 2013, Sheboygan, WI

 

Education:

1969-70: Fulbright Scholar, Florence, Italy

1959-62: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1958: University of Athens, Greece

 

Awards/Commissions:

2008: Clifton and Doris Wharton Center for the Performing Arts, East Lansing, MI

1988: W.B. Doner Company, Lobby, Southfield, MI

1987: Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., 21st Floor Lobby, Chicago, IL

1985: Harris Hall, Lobby & Conference Walls, Ann Arbor, MI

1981: U.S. Patent – Vacuum Mounting System for Large Murals

1969-70: Fulbright Fellowship

1968: Louis Comfort Tiffany prize for painting

 

Solo Exhibitions:

2014: University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan, "A Life in Art"

2013: Trattoria Stefano, Sheboygan, WI, “The Art of Georg Vihos”

2012: Belian Art Center, Troy, MI, “Sixty Years”

2009: MAC ART Group, Miami, FL, “Spiritual Flesh”

2008: Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Michigan Masters Series, Birmingham, MI, “Spiritual Flesh”

2006: Mack B Gallery, Sarasota, FL, “Ancient Myths and Modern Images”

1987: Randolph & Hein, San Francisco, CA, Galleria Showroom

1986: C.G. Jung Institute, Evanston, IL, “Anthropos One”

1984: Rocklands Gallery, Monterey, CA, “Luminousart”

1982: Mott University Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, “A Look at Nature”

1981: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Junior Museum Program: “You Are an Artist, Too”

1978: 48 Great Jones Street, studio showing sponsored by Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY

1977: Lee Hoffman Gallery, Birmingham, MI

1970: Little Gallery, Birmingham, MI, “Drawings from Florence”

1970: Via Senese Gallery, Florence, Italy, “Fulbright Year”

1964: First One-Man Exhibition, Studio Gallery, Detroit, MI

 

Group Exhibitions:
2014: Timothy Cobb Fine Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2013: New Members Exhibition, Sheboygan Visual Artists, Sheboygan, WI

1990: “Artist Equity,” 1st Annual Members Exhibition, SOMAR, San Francisco, CA

1986: “20th New Horizons in Art,” juried, City of Chicago Purchase awarded to Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.

1986: “Art of Living,” Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI

1982: “24 x 24,” (artists from Detroit & New York), ParkWest Galleries, Southfield, MI

1981: “100 Artist Show,” Ten Windows On 8th Avenue, NY

1973: “Michigan Focus,” juried, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

1970: “Eight Americans in Italy,” Rome

1967: “Made in Detroit,” Franklin Siden Gallery

1968: “Michigan Artists,” Bloomfield Art Association

1964: “Michigan Artists,” The Detroit Institute of Arts

1962: “2nd Biennial, Drawings and Prints,” The Art Institute of Chicago

 

Bibliography:

Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Kevin Costello “Artist Draws Upon His Memories,” May 12, 2006

Art in America, May, 1984

Detroit Free Press, Trout Pomeroy, “Artist in Motion,” July 19, 1984

Detroit Free Press, Marsha Miro, “Review Hoffman Exhibition,” November 6, 1977

Impressario Magazine of the Arts and Leisure, Helen Zucker, Winter, 1977-78

Detroit News, Colby on Art, “Big Drawing Goes Public,” August 10, 1975

Detroit Free Press, Ruth Rattner, “Art in Detroit,” September 17, 1967

D.A.C. News, Morley Driver, “Detroit’s Ten Most Promising Artists,” February, 1967

Detroit Free Press, Morley Driver, “Detroit Artist George Vihos,” October 18, 1964

 

Teaching and Art-Related Employment

1969-89: Consultant with Design Origins, Madison Heights, MI

1971-75: Studio art and art history, Roeper City and Country School

1968-71: Instructor of Drawing, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

1967-68: Instructor of Life Drawing, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI

1965-66: Flint Junior College and Museum, Flint, MI

1964:       Bloomfield Art Association, Bloomfield Hills, MI

 

Collections           

           Corporate

            Alpha Stamping Corporation

            Buckheim and Roland

            Canterbury Agency

            Fieger, Fieger, Kenney & Johnson P.C.

            Johnsonville Foods

            Handleman Company

            Peat Marwick & Mitchell & Company

            W.B. Doner Company

 

            Public

            The Beaumont Foundation, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI

            Beverly Hills Grill, Beverly Hills, MI

            Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, MI

            The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

            Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI

            Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI

            Henry Ford Hospital, West Bloomfield, MI

            Marian University, Fond du Lac, WI

            Mission Health Medical Center, Livonia, MI

            New Detroit Hospital, Detroit, MI

            Oakland University, Rochester, MI

            Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT

            University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI

            University of Michigan, Harris Hall, Ann Arbor, MI

            Wayne State University, University Administration Building, Detroit, MI

            Wayne State Medical School, Detroit, MI

            Wharton Center for Performing Arts, East Lansing, MI 

 

            Private (selected)            

            Stig Aronnson

            Evelyn and George Bilson

            Peter Barth

            Jane Collon Booth

            Adrienne Cowden

            Robert and Jackie Cowden

            JC, Lucretia, and Ramsay Crawford

            Geoffrey Feiger, Esq.

            Drs. Eric and Lisa Goldberg

            Susan Hering

            Shannon Kring Buset

            John Newcomer

            Pat and  Mike Lawrence

            E.J. Levy

            Rob Levy

            Stanley Levy

            Joan Luby            

            Sara and Andrew Meisner 

            Colby and Mark Mitchell

            Jarie and Michael Ruddy

             J. Garland Schilcutt

            Betty Smth

            Nina Silbergleit

            Sabina Singh and Ken Strmiska

            Rosanne Thompson

            William Sloan

            Laura Klemm

            Ernest Zulia


Georg Vihos often worked on photographic backdrop paper stapled to the wall of his studio. With engineering guidance and financial support from Hardy Brodersen of Design Origins (Farmington Hills, MI), a vacuum sealing process, patented as TruSeal, was designed to protect and present his large-scale works of art on paper. 

            

                        

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