Georgia Tambasis

Georgia Tambasis was born in a small village in Greece and immigrated to the United States with her immediate family when she was ten years old. After earning a BSN degree in nursing from Thiel College and working in the field for over a decade, Georgia pursued her interest in art. She received a BFA from Youngstown State University and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has received numerous awards and honorable mentions in national and regional exhibitions. Selected solo and two-person exhibitions include Compass: It’s not an easy voyage, Nutting Art Gallery, West Liberty University, West Liberty, WV, Observations, The Summit Art Gallery, Weirton, WV, Gold Dust Falling from the Sky, The Art House on Elm, Youngstown, OH, From Corner to Corner, Etc. Gallery, Wheeling, WV, and Beneath the Fuzzy Surface, Sally Otto Art Gallery, University of Mount Union, Alliance, OH. Georgia taught art at the University of Texas at San Antonio, St. Phillip’s College, Northwest Vista College, and the Southwest School of Art and Craft, all in San Antonio, TX. Most recently she was an assistant professor of visual art at former Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, WV and an adjunct professor at Bethany College, Bethany, WV. Currently she is an independent artist, curator, and educator living in Wheeling, WV with her husband and cat. Her studio practice includes drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, and installation art.

About her work, Georgia states: “I paint, draw, sculpt, throw on the potter’s wheel, and alter forms much like I did as a child—drawing in the dirt with sticks and stacking rocks in a small village in Greece. Although my process is intuitive and spontaneous, it requires a sure, confident hand. Sometimes I have a general idea in mind, and other times I allow my hands to move freely with the available material. I usually create a body of work in a series.