Pat Phillips “Subsuperior”

Catinca Tabacaru

poster for Pat Phillips “Subsuperior”

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Catinca Tabacaru Gallery presents Pat Phillips’s first New York solo exhibition, SubSuperior. This is the artist’s first show with the gallery.

“I grew up in a middle class suburb among four other black families. Relatively blue collar, many of our parents worked in the few local industries in and around town. Out of the folks who looked like myself, we had a bus driver, janitor, factory worker, a Baptist preacher/lawyer, and my dad… a Corrections Officer at the local prison.

SubSuperior is a narrative exploring my own life, as well as the experiences of others stuck between racial and social classes. In an era that conveys progress, but only demonstrates marginal economic advancement, the struggles of the nuclear black family can create an illusion that things are better for everyone. Between the, “Y’all made it, so can everyone else” and the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality that is whole-heartedly regurgitated within the working middle class, many can simply overlook the systems that help maintain the standard and substandard of living.

Bounded by historical empathy and adversity, one must constantly reexamine his or her position within the Subsuperior. With limited opportunities, this can be the difference between being a sufferer within the system or those enlisted to uphold its practices.”
- Pat Phillips, 2019

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Schedule

from February 15, 2019 to March 31, 2019

Opening Reception on 2019-02-15 from 18:00 to 21:00

Artist(s)

Pat Phillips

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