More Binaries

This one says, "text".

This one says, "love".

Binary Series Begins

Urbanism

53 1/2" x 40" oil on canvas

53 1/2" x 40" oil on canvas

Couple Rothko Homages

55" x 72" oil on canvas

55" x 72" oil on canvas

More Catching up

30" x 20" oil on canvas

30" x 20" oil on canvas

40" x 30" Oil on canvas

Catching up

I'm going to post a bunch of work from the last year and half.

20" x 40" oil on canvas

Peaks 20" x 20" Photo collage and oil on canvas  (With photos from Matthew Smith)

 

30" x 40" Oil on canvas

#53

24" x 30" oil on canvas

#52

40" x 40" oil on canvas

#51

15 1/2" x 11 1/2 " Oil on Canvas

#50

30" x 40" oil on canvas

Mural

80" x 80" latex wall mural

 This was done for the Arts and Gen Ed department building at my school, Haywood Community College.

#49 Olson

24" x 36" Oil and paper on canvas

 

 

This one is for my sister upon her graduation.  Her dissertation on modern epic American poetry included a chapter on Charles Olson.

#48

30" x 60" Oil on Canvas

This is based on a photo of an apartment building in Caracas.

#47

30" x 60" Oil on Canvas

Tempo 75 For Dancing 80

31 1/2' x 48" Acrylic and paper on canvas

This is a collaboration with artist and poet, Natalie Kinsey.  Great fun painting simultaneously.

#46

40" x 40" oil on canvas

#45 Vertical Remix 2

30" x 40" oil on canvas

This marks a turning point from acrylic to oil. This one is also the second painting based on Curt Cloninger's remixed images from Peter Greenaway's film, Vertical Features Remake.

#44

20" x 20" acrylic and magazine on canvas

#41-44 are meant to hang together like this:

#43

20" x 20" acrylic, masking tape and magazine on canvas

#42

20" x 20" acrylic and magazine on canvas

#41

20" x 20" acrylic and magazine on canvas

#40

10" x 12" Acrylic on canvas

#39 Ordination

32" x 38" Acrylic and paper on canvas

This one is a gift for a friend who has recently been ordained to be a pastor.

#38

20" x 20" acrylic on canvas

#37 Vertical Remix

36" x 46"
acrylic on canvas

While physically layered with paint, this one is more about a layer of ideas:

Layer 1: Physical watercolor drawing by filmmaker Peter Greenaway made in the late 1970's

Layer 2: The Peter Greenaway film Vertical Features Remake (1978) in which various fictional academics recreate a hypothetical film by a fictional artist based on his drawings, notes and film fragments. The watercolor drawing of Layer 1 is used in this film.

Layer 3: The video short, Vertical Features Remix (2009) by digital and internet artist Curt Cloninger in which he takes screen shots from Vertical Features Remake (Layer 2) and digitally remixes them into new digital paintings. A cropped section of the watercolor drawing of Layer 1 is remixed in this short.

Layer 4: Physical and magnified scale painting, Vertical Remix, by Jeremy Phillips, based on one screen shot from Curt Cloninger's cropped image (Layer 3) of Peter Greenaway's watercolor drawing (Layer 1).

#36 Rational Expressions

44" x 44"
acrylic and paper on canvas

The foundation collage incorporates images and text from:
1. a European history textbook
2. a guide to algorithms
3. an algebra 2 textbook
4. a handbook on textile manufacturing

#35 In the Red

45" x 45"
acrylic and newspaper on canvas

#34 Peripatetic Labyrinth

36" x 62"
acrylic on wood

This painting has 3 basic layers: First a loose color foundation; second a layer of what appear to be overlapping rectangles creating an illusion of overlapping depth, but actually constitute one single layer; third, the connecting labyrinths based on medieval meditation patterns.

#33 Ring the Bells

30" x 40" Acrylic and Paper on Canvas

This one is a commission - or a trade for work done on the website for my fair trade import business: www.indophilia.com.

#32 More Yellow News

16" x 20" acrylic and newspaper on canvas

#31 Yellow News

16" x 20" acrylic and newspaper on canvas

#30 Yellow News

10" x 12" acrylic and newspaper on canvas

#29

12" x 12" acrylic on canvas board

#28

12" x 16" acrylic on canvas

#27 Ghost Chairs

12" x 16" acrylic on canvas board

A friend called these sgraffito chairs "ghost chairs." It stuck.

#26

12" x 10" acrylic on canvas