NYAB Event - Phillis Ideal "Recent Paintings"

Phillis Ideal "Recent Paintings"

The Painting Center

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Phillis Ideal’s work is about the materiality of paint which represents a wide range of abstraction: including layers of transparent and thick, brushed and sprayed paint; collaged fragments embedded in medium; computer graphics, shards of other drawings, as well as, large gestural brush strokes. Thus, the scope is broad and the paintings exist as both a tangible material and as a catalog of visual language of different styles of image making. Some paintings are more complex in combining collaged references than others which are more reductive and elemental.

The studio practice underscores a playful and imaginative setting in which many moods, pictorial spaces, techniques and art history can coexist, referencing the vastness of the operations of abstraction. These paintings are moments in an open process which experiments with both formal relationships and chance elements to create meaning. In this work, she is interested in testing the system of making art within the mind of the artist and the viewer. These paintings are open to visual perception and stand on their own to engage an emotional and intellectual response.