Anna, 2020
Oil on linen
98.1 in. x 72.1 in. / 249.2 cm. x 183.1 cm.

Richard Phillips is an American artist born in 1962 in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He received his BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design before pursuing his MFA in painting at Yale School of Art.

Known for his large-scale, hyperrealistic paintings, Richard Phillips engages the complex web of human obsessions with sexuality, politics, power, and death that are constantly exploited in mainstream media. Subjecting popular images to a range of classical painterly techniques, he estranges their familiarity and thus imbues them with new meaning. Photographic images of politicians are re-cast in neon, while supermodels are represented as academic paintings, as if to augment their status as pop icons. Over and over again throughout his work, the glossy idealism of advertising propaganda is subverted by his underlying resistance to its blatant seduction.

He has exhibited in New York, London, Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong. His work belongs in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Tate Modern, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Van Abbemuseum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

In addition to his paintings, Phillips has produced a number of films.

Phillips currently lives and works in New York City.

Courtesy of the artist (@richardfphillips)

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