Open through Sept. 25
Gallery hours: Mon.-Thurs. 10 a.m-4 p.m.; Fri. 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Closed weekends

Florida Community College at Jacksonville
Kent Campus Gallery
Bldg. E, Room 112
3939 Roosevelt Avenue

George Phillips Pitlak is a painter, photographer and mixed media artist who exhibits his work regionally and nationally. His works are in numerous private collections. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and received his B.A. in painting and printmaking from San Francisco State University. Pitlak has been working for the past 14 years as a professional tattoo artist. Recently he pursued post baccalaureate work at the University of North Florida and participated in workshops with Louise Freshman Brown. Pitlak also studied and painted in Florence and Vagliagli and at Il Chiostro in the Tuscan region of Italy.

(Artist Statement) In his current work, George Phillips Pitlak uses lead, ash, copper, emulsion, photographs and dried vegetation to evoke the spirit of alchemy. The photographs of graveyards and barren earth, with sheets of lead and copper, covered by ash, earth and vegetation symbolize the death of the physical and transformation to the spiritual…a representation of the alchemic process undergone throughout our physical existence.