George Kimmerling's new installation of digital prints and drawings, entitled Clipped, presents a broad narrative about desire, violence, crime, love and loyalty in the lives of men and boys. Since 1991, the artist has been collecting and archiving material from U.S. newspapers, vintage children's books, consumer magazines, architectural texts, infotainment Web sites, club postcards, and religious publications. Here, Kimmerling presents more than 120 documents, featuring characters both real and fictional — Alex King,Johnny Quest, Sam Manzie, Jim

Forest, Elián Gonzalez, Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, and many more who go unidentified. In a boldly colorful environment inspired by print media and graphic design, Clipped offers a tale of masculinity as contested ground, where the blurred lines between victim, hero, perp, father, son, student, teacher, and athlete are crossed again and again.
George Kimmerling has received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Corcoran School of Art, a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design, and attended the Whitney Museum of Art Independent Study Program. His work has been exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the Altoids Curiously Strong Collection in New York, at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, and at Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.