George Stoll handcrafts items that are normally mass factory produced to create viewer-challenging installations whereby highly realistic objects are abstracted beyond their "domestic function." Included are sponges, toilet paper, and paper towels. In creating these works, he is focused on the relationship between consumer culture and high art.

His first exhibition was in 1994 in Los Angeles, and was titled Tupperware. Stoll elevates what is usually considered disposable to art by asking viewers to take another look at those objects that surround them."

Stoll was born in the suburbs of Baltimore, and in the 1970s and 80s, lived in New York City, where, while studying design, he held various jobs such as making jew...