art, event/exhibition
Exhibition – Pat Phillips Consumer Reports
Exhibition – Pat Phillips Consumer Reports.
ABOUT EXHIBITION
Pat Phillips explores the social dynamics of America in his new series of paintings, Consumer Reports.
The artist describes the series as follows:
“Consumer Reports is a series that examines our relationships to goods. In a free-market economy, with an ever-increasing wealth gap, these paintings explore the perception of value and function for upward mobility. Through irrational expectations that disproportionately affect low/middle-class consumers, clothing and everyday items become superficial tools used in an attempt to gain both cultural and socioeconomic ground.”
Pat Phillips’s paintings combine personal and historical imagery into surreal juxtapositions, drawing on his experience living in America to mediate complex questions of race, class, labor and a militarized culture. He found his way to art through painting and photographing box cars. His paintings fuse this graffiti background with a sophisticated study of figuration. He embraces this entry point, creating paintings and drawings that address the social and political threads running through American culture.
Pat Phillips: Consumer Reports
Jeffrey Deitch Gallery
18 Wooster St,
New York, NY 10013