57. RICHARD PHILLIPS
 |
|
Janise Carter
2005 84 x 63 1/8 in. (213.4 x 160.3 cm) Oil on linen |
 |
|
Ere I Perish (After Fra Angelico)
2010 12 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (31.8 x 31.8 cm) Pastel on grey toned paper |
 |
|
Selena
2001 84 x 60 in. (213.4 x 152.4 cm) Oil on linen |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1962 in Marblehead, MA. (USA)
Nowadays:
Lives and works in New York, NY
Studies:
In 1984 ,
he obtained his BFA in Painting, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.
(USA)
In 1986, he obtained his MFA in
Painting, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT. (USA)
Themes and
style:
Richard
Phillips’s strikingly distinctive paintings derive their tension from an
unsettling blend of lurid imagery and a refined, almost academic painting
style. He often incorporates material taken from a range of cultural sources,
from porn, advertising and fashion spreads from the 1950s,1960s and 1970s to
the pop paintings of Mel Ramos, Alex Katz and Andy Warhol, translating these
into glossy, hyperrealist portraits. The result is stylised figures either in
heightened colour, reminiscent of 70s Technicolor films, or in black and white,
which he paints in flat, slick surfaces on canvas or aluminium. He often crops
the body from each figure, scaling up his subjects’ faces and re-situating them
against a bold, neutral ground. Phillips’ figuration involves a level of
abstraction where a radical lack of illusion sits on equal terms with the
artist’s strong fascination for and empathy with his protagonists. His
subjects, often drawn from pop culture or politics, are presented with few
naturalistic details or clues to the place or setting. Staring out of their
frames in blank perfection, they become the empty and inaccessible ciphers of
contemporary power.
Techniques:
His work
is mainly developed in paintings.
Solo Exhibitions:
2015 Richard Phillips. Gagosian Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2014 Richard Phillips. Galerie Max Hetlzer, Berlin, Germany.
Richard Phillips: Negation of the Universe. Dallas
Contemporary, Dallas, TX.
2012 Richard Phillips: Lindsay Lohan. The Institute of Modern
Art, Brisbane, Queensland,
Australia.
Richard Phillips. Gagosian Gallery, West 24th Street, New
York, NY.
2011 Richard Phillips: Most Wanted. White Cube, London,
England.
2010 Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action. White
Cube, London, England.
2009 Richard Phillips: New Museum. Gagosian Gallery, Madison
Avenue, New York, NY.
2007 Richard Phillips. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA.
2006 Richard Phillips: Early Works on Paper. Galerie Max
Hetzler, Berlin, Germany.
2005 Richard Phillips: Michael Fried. White Cube, London,
England.
Law, Sex & Christian Society. Friedrich Petzel Gallery,
New York, NY.
2004 Richard Phillips: Paintings and Drawings. Le Consortium,
Dijon, France.
2003 Richard Phillips: Neue Bilder. Galerie Max Hetzler,
Berlin, Germany.
2002 Birds of Britain. White Cube, London, England.
Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany.
2001 America. Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY.
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany.
2000 Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland.
1999 Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany.
Galerie Rudiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany.
1998 Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY.
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England.
1997 Richard Phillips, Paintings. Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA.
Richard Phillips: New Paintings. Turner & Runyon Gallery,
Dallas, TX.
1996 Richard Phillips: Recent Paintings. Edward Thorp
Gallery, New York, NY.
1995 Knoxville Paintings. Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY.
1994 White Columns, New York, NY.
Group Exhibitions:
2015 Theories on Forgetting. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills,
CA.
The Shell (Landscapes, Portraits & Shapes). Almine Rech
Gallery, Paris, France.
2014 Horror vacui. Gagosian Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2013 REMEMBER EVERYTHING: 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler.
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin,
Germany.
2012 The Deer. Le Consortium Dijon, Dijon, France.
2011 Figures in a Landscape. Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong.
2010 Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project. The
National Arts Club, New York.
Adolf Dietrich / Richard Phillips, Painting and
Misappropriation. Swiss Institute
Contemporary Art, New York, NY.
Size Does Matter, Curated by Shaquille O’Neal. The FLAG Art
Foundation, New York,
NY.
Endless Bummer / Surf Elsewhere. Blum & Poe, Los Angeles,
CA.
Lebenslust und Totentanz. Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria.
2009 Talk Dirty to Me. Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York,
NY.
Diana und Actaeon. The Forbidden Glimpse of the Naked Body.
Museum Kunst Palest
Düsseldorf, Germany.
2008 Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in
Art from the Logan Collection.
Vassar College, New York, NY.
Focus the Figure. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO.
Insight. Gagosian Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Always There Part 2. Max Hetzler Gallery, New York, NY.
Wall Rockets. The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY.
Attention to Detail. The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY.
No Ghost Just a Smell. Museum Of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL.
Blasted Allegories: Works from the Ringier Collection.
Kunstmuseum Luzern,
Switzerland.
2007 Triennale di Milano. Milan, Rome.
2003 Today’s Man. John Connelly Presents, New York, NY.
No Ghost Just a Shell: The Annlee Project. Van Abbemusuem,
Eindhoven, The
Netherlands.
Coollustre. Collection Lambert, Avignon, France.
Breathing the Water. Hauser Wirth and Pressenhuber, Zurich,
Switzerland.
Welcome Home. Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY.
2002 No Ghost Just a Shell. Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich,
Switzerland.
Some Options in Realism. Carpenter Center for the Visual
Arts, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA.
Some Options in Realism. Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York,
NY.
2001 The Contemporary Face: From Picasso to Alex Katz.
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg,
Germany.
2000 And if There Were No Stories. Stephen Friedman Gallery,
London, England.
Girlfriend. Galerie für Zeitgenössische, Leipzig, Germany.
Greater New York. P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York,
NY.
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Paintings from 1950 to
the Present.
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural
Center, Staten
Island, New York, NY.
.00. Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY.
1999 Das XX Century. INIT Kunsthalle Berlin, Germany.
New York–London. Taché-Lévy Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
Blueprint. Gallery Spark, New York, NY.
Painting Pictures. Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA.
art lovers. Tracey, The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary
Art, Liverpool, England.
1998 People, Places and Things. Marianne Boesky Gallery, New
York, NY.
Some Women/Pretty Girls. The Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida
Atlantic University,
Boca Raton, FL.
Hanging. Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil.
1997 Painting Group Show. Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York,
NY.
The Prophecy of Pop. Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans,
LA.
Hospital. Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany.
Richard Phillips, Paul Graham, Hillary Lloyd. Bronwyn Keenan,
New York, NY.
Summer Show. D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY.
Whitney Biennial. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
NY.
1996 Painting into Photography/Photography into Painting.
Museum of Contemporary Art,
North Miami, FL.
Everything Is Real. Jessica Fredericks Gallery, New York, NY.
Sugar Mountain. White Columns, New York, NY.
Transfixed. Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, NY.
Artist in Residence. Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, TN.
1995 September Group. Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY.
Summer Group. Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY.
1994 David’s Friends. Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA.
Paint Royale. Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY.
Summer Group. Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY.
1993 5 Painters. Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY.
Summer Punch ’93. Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Confessional. Elizabeth Koury Gallery, New York, NY.
Animal Kingdom. Champion Paper Co, Fairfield, CT.
Public Collections:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
Chase Bank, Zurich, Switzerland.
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Forth Worth, TX.
UBS PaineWebber Art Collection, New York, NY.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina,
Greensboro, NC.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
In his own words:
“I had some initial success coming out of
art school – I mean it was brief. It was really the end of that art boom so I
had this false sense of, “Oh yeah wow the art world is awesome!” Only to be
humbled beyond measure in 1990 when the economy went through the floor and the
brakes were put on pretty much to the point of nothingness.
That’s when I began drawing and painting
because I made sculptures when I first came to New York, not paintings. In
those alternate wiped-out times I started making drawings, and eventually
friends convinced me to make paintings of those drawings, and they were pretty
wacky, pretty wild, but I was able to begin my art program all over again from
scratch.”
Representative
Galleries:
Gagosian
For
more Information:
http://richardphillips.tumblr.com/
http://www.grandlifehotels.com/culture/grandlife-interviews-richard-phillips/