Joel Daniel Phillips

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Joel Daniel Phillips
Born25 July 1989
Seattle, Washington, United States
Known for Drawing, Portraiture Artist
MovementContemporary Realism, Social Practice

Joel Daniel Phillips is an American artist best known for his realist life-size portraits, particularly of San Francisco, California residents that highlight disenfranchised segments of the population. [1] [2]

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Early life

Phillips was born July 25, 1989, and grew up in Redmond, Washington. [2] He received a BFA from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, in 2011, [2] [3] and worked as a graphic designer before finding his first fine art representation and becoming a full-time fine artist. [4]

Career

Early Work

Between 2011 and 2017 Phillips drew more than 100 life-size portraits of his neighbors in San Francisco. For Phillips, the focus on fringe populations represented “a visual record of my striving to recognize unknown and unnoticed individuals through the tip of my pencil.” [5]

Phillips was the third-place winner of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition in 2016. [6] The winning portrait titled “Eugene #4” was of a gentleman he met on the corner of Sixth and Mission Streets in San Francisco, where Phillips lived from 2011 to 2016.

Later Work

In 2017, Phillips moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma to participate in the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. [7] With this move, Phillips' work expanded to explore questions behind how and why the neighborhoods his portraits came from became what they are today. These works, depicting a range of historical material, are “a conscious re-examination of artistic culpability, historic ownership, and the hollowness of Western romanticization” and have been described as “seductive and terrifying." [8]

In 2020 Phillips received an Artist Integration Grant from the Tulsa Artist Fellowship to commission a series of poems in response to his "Killing the Negative" drawings. This grant enabled the project to expand from a series of drawings and paintings by Phillips to include prose responses by some of the leading voices in contemporary American poetry, including noted poet, historian and educator Quraysh Ali Lansana, U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green and others. The works are a response to a subset of the Farm Security Administration’s (FSA) foundational commissioned photographs of the Great Depression. These images are of course, well known, and images like “Migrant Mother” by Dorothea Lange have become some of the most recognizable and important images in the American photographic lexicon. Less known, however, is the process by which these images were selected for publication: Roy Stryker was the head of the FSA, and for the first 4 years of the project, images he deemed unworthy were “killed” by punching a hole in the original negative. [9]

These collaborative works have been the subject of gallery exhibitions in New York City, Los Angeles and Oslo, Norway. The project has been received to significant acclaim, and works from this series have been acquired by the Crocker Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art and 21c Museum Hotels. Left Field Books will be publishing a complete catalogue of the poems and visual works in 2023. [9]

Exhibitions

Phillips’ work has been exhibited at galleries and institutions around the world, including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Tacoma Art Museum, The Art Museum of South Texas, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Ackland Art Museum, Gilcrease Museum and the Philbrook Museum of Art. [10] His work can be found in the public collections at the Denver Art Museum, Gilcrease Museum, West Collection and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. [10] Phillips' work has been selected for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery for the past three concurrent exhibitions (2016, 2019 and 2022), at which he received 3rd prize in 2016 and Honorable Mention in 2022. [11] [12] [13]

In 2019 Phillips had his first solo museum exhibitions with a show at Philbrook Museum of Art in February and a show at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in March. [14] [15]

Published work

Public Collections

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References

  1. ↑ "Artsy - Joel Daniel Phillips' Disarming Portraits". Artsy . 25 May 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Gallery, Spoke (2016). Bad Dads: Art Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson. United States: Harry N Abrams. p. 252. ISBN   9781419720475.
  3. ↑ "Alumnus Wins Prestigious National Award". 21 December 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  4. ↑ "Interview: Joel Daniel Phillips" . Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "Joel Daniel Phillips: Welcome to the Orange West" . Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  6. ↑ "Joel Daniel Phillips Goes in New Direction" . Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  7. ↑ "Tulsa Artist Fellowship Recipients" . Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  8. ↑ "Potent drawings of atomic bomb test walk line between beauty and terror" . Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  9. 1 2 "Killing the Negative Artist Statement" . Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  10. 1 2 "Hashimoto Contemporary: Joel Daniel Phillips" . Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  11. ↑ "Outwin 2016 Prize Winners" . Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  12. ↑ "Outwin 2019 Prize Winners" . Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  13. ↑ "Outwin 2022 Prize Winners" . Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  14. ↑ "Philbrook Museum to Show Larry Clark" . Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  15. ↑ "Philbrook Museum of Art: Joel Daniel Phillips" . Retrieved 22 July 2019.
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