George Seyffert

I paint to give form to the unseen forces that shape how we live.

I grew up in New York City and I have spent nearly a decade practicing law. That background is not incidental to my work. It is the work. I understand from the inside how legal systems, urban infrastructure, and institutional power operate on people’s lives, and I make paintings about what that actually feels like.
I work in mixed media on large-format cotton canvas. Oil, acrylic, charcoal, ink, pastel, paper, and plaster build up in layers across the surface. Beneath most works are pages from case law textbooks, legal notepads, receipt paper, and sticky notes. These materials are not decorative. They are evidence.

My collection, Urban Cartographies (2024 to present), maps the experience of moving through a city that depends on people while rarely accounting for them. Figures emerge outlined but unfilled. Lines trace pathways, detours, and fractures. I let texture and gesture carry the emotional weight that stems from my everyday life as an attorney and childhood experiences.

I am currently exploring abstract portraiture. Faces repeat, distort, and fragment as a direct rejection of systems that reduce people to categories.

A collection of work responds to the current political climate. As a painter and an attorney watching the structures I have studied come apart in real time, I have no interest in staying quiet. My anger is not a liability. It is where the work starts.

I work from my studio in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Works are placed privately with collectors. Studio viewings are by appointment.