WOP
without paper gallery
Renee Phillips
Renee Phillips lives and works in Chelsea, NYC and Miami,Fl.
Her work can be found in public and private collections internationally,and exhibits in numerous exhibitions from the Art and Cultural Center of South Florida to NYC.
She was most recently awarded by Architectural Digest Magazine for MADE in March 2015.
Education
B.A 2003 Fine Arts: Painting University of Miami, Florida
2002 American University of Paris, France
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO | TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2015 Haptic Perception, Renee Phillips and Maria Fragoudaki, 103 Allen, NY, NY
MADE, Architectural Digest Design Show, New York, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2015 Postcards From the Edge by Visual Aids, Luhring Augustine Gallery, NY, NY
2015 Ventus Calidus, Dacia Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Inaugural Exhibition, Wallace Studios, Deerfield Beach, Fl
2014 50 for 50, Joe Fresh, New York, NY
2014 Macro vs. Micro, High Line Open Studios, New York, NY
2014 Inaugural Exhibition, ArtWise Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, Fl
2014 All Media Juried Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Fl
2014 Spring Annual Group Exhibition, Baboo Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Seascapes, Special Merit Award, Light Space and Time Gallery
2013 School of Visual Arts Summer Residency Exhibit, NYC, NY
2013 All Media Juried Biennial, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Fl
2013 Sea and Sky, Liz Affif Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa
2013 Summer Heat IV, Rossetti Fine Art Gallery, Wilton Manors, Fl
2014 Art Collection Showcase, New York, NY
RESIDENCY PROGRAMS
2013 School of Visual Arts Summer Residency, Painting and Mixed Media, NYC
PRIVATE COMMISSIONS
Skye Dyer, Private Collection, Delray Beach, Fl
Dr. Wayne and Marcelene Dyer, Private Collection, Maui, HI and Boca Raton, FL Amanda & Harris Thompson, Private Collection, Boca Raton, Fl
Purgatory Pie Press, Stippling Commission, New York, NY
Georgie and Rick Taylor, Private Collection, Key Largo, Fl
ARTIST STATMENT
I am most interested in exploring the unseen, but felt, connection to our natural world.
Through mindful exploration of my surrounding environment at a macro and micro level,I aim to map
a moment in time within the evolutionary progress of life.
I observe natural life cycles in both nature and urban environments - growth, decay, rebirth, regeneration - and traslate the changing rhythms onto canvas.
My process relies heavily on learned alchemical experiments, intuition and physicality.
An intensive layering and re- working of the canvas results in highly tactile and seductive surfaces:
papers are applied, paint is poured on, sanded off, manipulated with heat, wind and water, glazed, enameled and reapplied until a certain energetic frequency is achieved.
This expressive mark making process acts as a conduit for connecting me to the natural world.