I did not start taking art seriously until my good friend passed away on my 21st Birthday while he was stationed in Iraq while serving in the Marines. At age 24, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, which caused me to quit my ultrasonic inspector job and start taking foundational art classes at Otis College Of Art & Design, where I would ultimately learn to paint. For the last 12 years, I’ve used painting to silence the worries of my future and to cope with a disabled day-to-day life. With my work, I strive for a balance between the chaos and the detailed to the humorous and the horrendous. The ultimate goal is to bring a smile or a chuckle to the viewer. -Atom St. George - Shoutout LA feature 2022

Painter Atom St. George began his career in the aerospace field, but his young life took a few transformative turns, and for the past decade his increasingly abstract work reflects an entirely new kind of space. In his early twenties, St. George experienced loss, grief, and a real reckoning with his own mortality; his early work reflected a pensive obsession with the invisible fractal intricacies of his damaged neurons. For the past several years however, St. George’s vision and technique have expanded into a richly detailed, gestural, expressive language of dreamlike symbolism — especially fantastical plants and animals — along with pattern, motion and and activated palette. This breakthrough of inspiration finds him in a transcendent mood in which the work is no longer focused only on processing and ameliorating the trauma of his illness, but on exploring and celebrating the entirety of his consciousness.
-Shana Nys Dambrot -LA Weekly 2022