Georgia Hupfel’s work serves as a love letter to the people, places, and experiences in her life. She sees painting as a way of immortalizing a person, moment, or feeling. Imbuing even the smallest or insignificant details, like an orange peel or a shadow, with meaning and importance. Georgia feels that in a digital time where we are so bombarded by imagery everyday and everything lasts forever, the overwhelming amount of information we have access to renders most of what we see unimportant and ordinary--nothing is really seen. She uses painting to highlight the things she want to remember and capture--little ephemeral sweetnesses.

Her work mainly consists of oil paint and wood stain on wood panels and cotton canvas. Georgia’s background is primarily in sculpture and she enjoys working on wood panels and layering canvases and composition to create a more dynamic ground on which to paint and create spaces with layers of context. She works mainly from photographs, and builds compositions to tell a story - allowing the images to recontextualize each other and create a new feeling the paintings individually might not deliver. She sees painting as a serious medium with a rich history and take inspiration from classical portraiture in a lot of her work, contemporizing it by allowing the subjects to be playful in emotion or costume. She love building upon a history of classical portraiture, women painted on black backgrounds with solemn faces and hands folded, and taking that context but placing a modern young woman in it making faces or wearing princess sunglasses. Georgia finds the juxtaposition of classical and modern highlights the emotions of the pieces.