In 1983, having been on the faculty of Colorado State University, Philip Geiger joined the McIntire Department of Art of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville to teach figure drawing and introductory drawing. He is known for his highly realistic interior domestic scenes with figures sleeping, gathered around a dinner table or sitting alone pensively and quietly.
Geiger was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and earned his B.F.A. degree in 1978 from Washington University in St. Louis and his M.F.A. degree in 1980 from Yale University.
Born in 1956 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Philip Geiger paints oils that are painterly and scholarly.
The work is intended to provoke the imagination and to pull emotions from the observer.
Education –
Washington University, BFA 1978
Yale University, MFA 1980
Teaching Experience
1983-Present Associate Professor, University of Virginia
1980 to 1983 Assistant Professor, Colorado State University
1991and 1993 Drawing Marathon Instructor, New York Studio School, New York City
Awards
1993 Sesquicentennial Associateship
1987 Sesquicentennial Associateship
1987 Biography included in Who’s Who In American Art
1981 John-Hunter Memorial Award, Allied Artists of America, New York, NY
1980 Ely Harwood Schless Memorial Prize, Yale School of Art
1978 Tanasko Milovich Award, Washington University School of Fine Arts
1975 John T. Milliken Award, Washington University School of Fine Arts
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