RICHARD PHILLIPS
L.R.A., 2006
Oil canvas
100 x 95 inches (254 x 241.3 cm)
Courtesy Gagosian Gallery
RICHARD PHILLIPS
The exhibition will be held in the Gagosian Gallery of Beverly Hills from April 21 to May 26, 2007.
The Gagosian Gallery is one of the most important Art galleries in North America. Now, a new exhibition in its Beverly Hills gallery presents new paintings by the American artist Richard Phillips.
As the gallery quotes in a press note, “Over the last decade, Phillips has developed a striking signature style that derives its tension from his selective use of popular images that he subjects to the technical, value-laden refinements of academic painting. For Phillips, critique is as much an intrinsic material in the conception and staging of his paintings as the canvas and paint with which they are made. His deft and selective scrambling and conflating of subject and genre continues to provide challenging comment on the condition and reach of painting in our time: Is it a vital medium or a redundant object of nostalgic connoisseurship? How do current art practices relate to painting’s history? And is painting central or peripheral to them? As a self-conscious American painter weaned on postmodern appropriation strategies, Phillips is acutely interested in the continually evolving discourse on the many lives and deaths of painting and how this combines, throughout history, with the complex politics of making and reading images”.
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