George Herms
George Herms is a multimedia artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Coming out of the Beat Generation, Herms is recognized along with Ed Kienholz, Wallace Berman, and Bruce Conner as a leading figure of the California assemblage movement. His work combines aged, stained, and rusted detritus, always stamped with the four letters: L-O-V-E. He believes that mundane, discarded objects are of great interest when properly contextualized.
Herms’ work has been displayed in museums and galleries like Susan Inglett Gallery, the Grand Central Art Center, Robert Berman Gallery, the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, the Crocker Art Museum, Catherine Clark Gallery, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Orange County Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the MOCA Pacific Design Center. His work is included in numerous public collections like the Hammer Museum, Stanford University, the Berkeley Art Museum di Rosa Preserve, the DeYoung Museum, the Museum of Modern Art NYC, and the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art.