George Mallett is a people person. The human figure has always been an integral part of his life. As a professor and one of the original founders of the Georgia State University Sculpture Department, his relationship with his students took a very important role in his style of teaching. It has been said that George would much rather be out among the masses than in the classroom and became infamous for his unapproved outings with his pupils. On many occasions he would take his classes with bags of clay in-hand out to the urban parks of downtown Atlanta and have them attempt to sculpt workers who relaxed in the park during their lunch hour. He became very interested in the relationships between human beings and how the lines of their form became intertwined in movement. Out of this grew a series of walking and standing figures that is still prevalent in his work today. George Mallett is credited for building the first casting foundry at Georgia State University.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2005
Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2001   
Cindy Nixon and George Mallett, Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1995 -96
Callaway Gardens Annual Exhibition
1992
Art Space Gallery
1989
Dekalb Council for the Arts, Ga.1986   
Japan America Society, co-sponsor;  Atlanta Botanical Society  Invitational
“Invitational Spring Promenade Garden Tour” ,  Atlanta Music Club; Atlanta, Ga.
“Invitational Historic Preservation Society”   Atlanta, Ga. 
“Tight Squeeze Festival”  Atlanta, Ga.
“Invitational  Southern Homes Show”  Atlanta, Ga. 
“Mattress Factory Show”  Atlanta, Ga. 
“Mardi Gras”  Dekalb Council for the Arts; juried show,  The Terraces;  Dunwoody, Ga. 
1985  
“Traveling Exhibition”  Piedmont  Arts Festival;  Atlanta, Ga. 
“Invitational  Exhibit”   Gainesville Arts Center;  Gainesville, Ga. 
“Faculty Exhibit”  Georgia State University;   Atlanta,  Ga. 
1978
“Georgia Artists Show” 
1977
“Fourteen Sculptors at the High Museum”   The High Museum of Art;  Atlanta, Ga. 
1975
“Thirteen Minus One Sculptors”   Peachtree Center;  Atlanta, Ga.    Keystone
Junior College;  Pennsylvania   
1974
"Artists in Georgia” The High Museum of  Art;  Atlanta, Ga.  
“Chiaha Annual Exhibition of  Painting and Sculpture” Chiaha Art Center;Rome, Ga
1972   1976
“Invitational Sculpture Show”  Agnes Scott College;  Decatur, Ga. 
Midtown Gallery: Atl, Ga.







GEORGE MALLETT CONTINUED 

1973
University of South Carolina ;  Columbia, SC.  1973
1972
“Georgia Artists II”  The High Museum of Art;  Atlanta, Ga. 
“Invitational Group Show”   Gallery of Contemporary Art;  Winston-Salem, NC
“One Person Show”   Midtown Gallery;  Atlanta, Ga 
1970
“Georgia Artists”  The High Museum of Art;  Atlanta,Ga. 
1968
“Festival of  Sculpture”  First Natonal Bank of Atlanta;  Atlanta, Ga. 
“Traveling Exhibition”   Smithsonian Institute
“Invitational Exhibition- The Figure in Sculpture”  University of Chattanooga; Chattanooga, Tn. 
”Annual Art Exhibit”  Callaway Gardens;  Pine Mountain, Ga.  


COLLECTIONS

Forty two foot commission piece for MARTA ;  Atlanta, Ga.  1978

Won competition for MARTA  sculpture commission:  East Lake Station;  Atlanta, Ga.  1984

Works held in private collections in St. Louis,  Minneapolis, and Atlanta, as well as in several university collections.

Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, GA

King and Spalding, Atlanta, GA

Bernard and Barbara Horowitz, Dallas, TX

Mr. And Mrs. Ben Johnson III,   Atlanta, GA