Birth Name:

George Herms

Male

Birth Date:

Fri, Jul 05, 1935

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Woodland, California, United States

Age:

89

Zodiac Sign:

Cancer

Astrology Data:

Sun

12°

Can

51'

About George Herms

George Herms (born 1935) is an American artist best known for creating assemblages out of discarded, often rusty, dirty or broken every-day objects, and juxtaposing those objects so as to infuse them with poetry, humor and meaning. He is also known for his works on paper, including works with ink, collage, drawing, paint and poetry. The prolific Herms has also created theater pieces, about which he has said, "I treat it as a Joseph Cornell box big enough that you can walk around in. It's just a continuation of my sculpture, one year at a time." Legendary curator Walter Hopps, who met Herms in 1956, "placed Herms on a dazzling continuum of assemblage artists that includes Pablo Picasso, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, and Joseph Cornell, as well as California luminaries Wallace Berman and Edward Kienholz." Often called a member of the West Coast Beat movement, Herms said that Wallace Berman taught him that "any object, even a mundane cast-off, could be of great interest if contextualized properly." "That’s my whole thing," Herms says. "I turn shit into gold. I just really want to see something I've never seen before." George Herms lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for George Herms: Sun 12 Cancer, Moon 8 Virgo, Mercury 25 Gemini, Venus 28 Leo, Mars 18 Libra, Jupiter 13 Scorpio, Saturn 10 Pisces, Uranus 4 Taurus, Neptune 12 Virgo, Pluto 25 Cancer, Sun Sextile Neptune, Sun Trine Jupiter, Sun Trine Saturn, Sun Semi Square Venus, Mercury Sextile Venus, Mercury Sesquiquadrate Jupiter, Mercury Semi Sextile Pluto, Jupiter Trine Saturn, Jupiter Sextile Neptune, Saturn Opposition Neptune, Saturn Sesquiquadrate Pluto, Neptune Semi Square Pluto

Categories related to George Herms: Living people, University of California, Berkeley alumni, California, July 5 births, Artists from Los Angeles, People from Woodland, 1935 births, Assemblage artists, Beat Generation people

Photo attribution: Marlene Catherine Picard, Marlene Catherine Picard who took this photo at a March 1, 2015 party, gave me permission to upload the image to George Herms' Wikipedia page. She is a friend and understands it can be used by anyone else. I sent her an email with a link to Wikipedia's release generator and expect she will complete that in the next day or two.