The Philip Geiger Project
Steven Francis Fine Art
January 2025 - December 2025
Steven Francis Fine Art is thrilled to announce The Philip Geiger Project, a year’s worth of exhibitions celebrating the work of Philip Geiger.
Through many years of painting Philip Geiger has amassed a profound portfolio of work, impacting an extensive audience of admirers and painters alike with his unique way of translating his perceptions with paint. As a teacher at the University of Virginia, his influence extended beyond gallery walls as he taught other young artists the value and importance of perceptual painting. With today’s global and interconnected world, Philip Geiger’s philosophy and work has managed to reach a remarkable number of students, colleagues, contemporaries, and collectors.
We at Steven Francis Fine Art are deeply inspired by Philip Geiger’s story and the significant impact made by his work. We have thus created The Philip Geiger Project — a year of exhibitions inspired by Philip Geiger. Each show will highlight and exhibit a part of Geiger’s story by featuring artists directly influenced by his artwork and teaching, such as his close friends, contemporaries and former students. While it is not possible to explore every facet of his story in a single year, we hope for this project to act as the start of a more global conversation in the art world.
The project will officially kick-off in January 2025 with The School of Beauty and Goodness — a group exhibition at our Tradewynd Gallery featuring the work of six former students of Philip Geiger. The exhibitions that follow will build up to a retrospective of Geiger’s work at the Daura Museum at the University of Lynchburg, taking place at the end of the year.
Concurrent to the first show in January, we will be launching an online blog where you will find essays and notes written by fellow artists responding to Philip Geiger and his work. With every exhibition new essays will be added, so make sure to check back regularly and join the conversation.
Please join us throughout the year of 2025 at our SFFA locations and collaborative spaces to celebrate the legacy of this great American artist. Check out the calendar of events on our website to see the exciting exhibitions we have planned!
Steven Francis Fine Art would like to thank the following people for their help in making this project possible:
Philip Geiger
Elizabeth Geiger
Sarah-Faith Strait
Jeffrey Carr
David Campbell
Kathy Cudlin
Gallery 360, Roanoke, VA
George Logan
Scott Noel
Aaron Thompson
The Department of Art & Daura Museum, University of Lynchburg
The Department of Art, The Woodberry Forest School
CLICK HERE to see the calendar of planned exhibitions
CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR BLOG
Philip Geiger
Philip Geiger is a retired Professor of Art who taught at the University of Virginia for over thirty years. He earned his BFA from Washington University and received his MFA from Yale University. Geiger is a noted realist painter. His work has been reviewed by the New York Times, Art in America, ARTnews, and The New Criterion. He has exhibited at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York City, and his work is in a number of prominent collections. His paintings have been described as having “lustrous light, loose brushwork and subtle color” which “tellingly captures the nuances of mood and feeling that make up the more peaceful moments of contemporary family life.”
Philip Geiger, Birdhouse, Oil on Panel, 32” x 28,” Private Collection.
Philip Geiger, Pavilion Dogs, Oil on Panel, 24” x 32,” Private Collection.
Philip Geiger, Tilman Afternoon, Oil on Linen, 42” x 54,” Private Collection.