BRIAN PHILLIPS

JULY 12 –  JULY 26

 

Brian Paul Phillips is currently exhibiting a series of drawings depicting the American suburban 80's style ranch homes. These drawings are juxtaposed against the cityscape of coastal skyscrapers in Busan, Korea which is in clear view from the windows of Pod 2.  Phillips 's images are created through the processes of drawing with carbon ink from a printer. He draws his images then finalizing the drawing by printing them from a copy machine. The drawings are meant to be printed and it is the copies that become the finished works.  After being copied, the drawings are meant to be continually copied as to lose the original and thereby always existing is an original copy, one that takes on a life of its own. Like that of the sprawled suburban homes and landscapes of America.

 

Phillips was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Maine College of Art in 1998 and a Master of Fine Arts from Ohio State University in 2000. He was a resident at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2000.

 

Brian experienced a suburban childhood, immersed in the popular culture of 1970s-80s film and music. At 20 years old, Brian left the Midwest for the coast of Maine.  The cultural and geographical differences between Maine seaside villages and the Missouri suburbs allowed him to reflect on his geographical history within his works.  Brian later traveled back to the Midwest for graduate school, where he continued to revisit in his work, the strangeness and familiarity of culture and scenery.

 

Brian currently lives and works in Groton,  Massachusetts.