Matt Phillips

About

Matt Phillips
Was born in 1979 in Roanoke, Virginia

Matt Phillips is an American artist and he was born in 1979 in Roanoke, Virginia. Through his abstract oil and acrylic paintings, Phillips plays with colors, forms and volumes—the building blocks of our artistic experience—to create dynamic and shifting spatial relationships. Matt is also a critic, curator and professor of art at FIT in New York City. In the recent interview “The Spacetime of Fine Art” for Nautilus, the artist talked about his work. ”In my own paintings, I try to hold and release time for the viewer. Many of my works have no preconceived image or preliminary drawings. Instead, I just begin working directly on a canvas. Then, by adjusting the composition, revising color, painting over and correcting, a painting begins to tighten its orbit around a subject. This process mirrors music composition, in which disparate notes are found, revised and placed into sequence until they create tension and resonance”. Matt currently works and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Matt Phillips
Piano, piano, 2017
Silica and pigment on linen
149 x 119 cm

Matt Phillips
Left on the line, 2016
Silica and pigment on linen
41 x 51 cm

Matt Phillips
Dial, 2017
Silica and pigment on linen
76 x 61 cm

Matt Phillips

Piano, Piano

Studio d’arte Raffaelli

April 06 – July 01, 2017

Matt Phillips

La linea invisibile

Palazzo Conti Martini, Mezzocorona

 

On the occasion of the twenty-ninth edition of the “Settembre Rotaliano” event in Mezzocorona, for the third consecutive year Cellar Contemporary presents the “Terra” exhibition in the prestigious setting of Palazzo Conti Martini.

Matt Phillips

Piano Piano, 2017

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