George Clinton has been creating visual art for almost as long as he has been creating music. Starting with a rock drawing in 1959, and then evolving his iconic autograph derived from a silhouette of a dog, he was continuously sketching in the back of his tour bus.
Clinton’s paintings translate the psychedelic world of his music, costumes and stage sets into visual art. During the past several years, when he was unable to tour because of the pandemic, he entered a new chapter in his visual art, synthesizing sixty years of themes and characters.
George Clinton's work has been exhibited at Jeffrey Deitch, New York; SPILLMAN | BLACKWELL Fine Art, New Orleans; George Washington Carver Museum & Cultural Center, Austin; and The National Museum of African American Music, Nashville. His Mothership is on permanent display at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and is currently featured prominently throughout their Afrofuturism exhibition on view through August 18, 2024. Clinton currently lives and works in Tallahassee, Florida.