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“We flow pretty easily in between our two areas. George keeps his brushes, pencils, and pens in cups made by Georgia.

And that philosophy is all around me in physical form when I walked into the studio.”Ībove: An early galley of his book sits next to some of the tools that went into its making. For myself, it’s an important reminder that process is the actual destination. “The entire studio has a decidedly unfinished veneer. Above: “Georgia’s husband is a contractor, and they were both influenced by David Ireland, who championed a form of process as the end goal,” explains George. The large work table was made by Georgia’s husband, DJ.

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Above: “The studio has windows on three sides, so how the light moves through our space is something that is hard to ignore. It was an ode to process.” Here, five blocks from Ocean Beach, George drew portraits of Black pioneers-ultimately turning the drawings into a tour de force of a book for HarperCollins: Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen hit bookstores in September and is already in second printing.īelow, he gives us a tour of his shared studio-a space he likens to church, a place where he can stretch out and make a mess, a room to call his own. So when Georgia asked him if he’d like to be her studio mate (the artists formerly sharing the space with her had moved on), he didn’t hesitate. He kept saying, ‘You need a space to get dirty.’ ” It was around that time that his then-boyfriend urged him to find a dedicated spot for his fine art pursuits: “I was working at cafes, at my boyfriend’s house, at my dining table. (A veteran of the magazine world, he struck out on his own in 2011, launching creative branding studio McCalman.Co.) But in 2016, he found himself rekindling his love for drawing, which ultimately led him to his own monthly illustrated column for the San Francisco Chronicle. It gave me what I needed to slip into who I am,” he says.įor a long time, George considered himself solely a creative director. It’s here, in this stripped-down, soulful floor of a ramshackle building, that he became an artist: “It’s a place of engagement on a daily basis. It’s nurturing and warm and welcoming.”Īrtist and creative director George McCalman is waxing rhapsodic about the studio space he shares with ceramicist Georgia Hodges in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset. Everyone who visits says something similar. From the very first time I walked into the space five years ago-when it wasn’t even my studio!-I felt an affinity for it. Icon - Check Mark A check mark for checkbox buttons.

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