Joel Daniel Phillips

Joel Daniel Phillips is an American artist best known for his realist life-size portraits, particularly of San Francisco, California residents that highlight disenfranchised segments of the population.[3][4]

Joel Daniel Phillips
Born25 July 1989[1]
Redmond, Washington, United States[2]
NationalityAmerican
Known forDrawing, Portraiture Artist
MovementContemporary Realism, Social Practice

Early life

Phillips was born July 25, 1989, and grew up in Redmond, Washington.[5] He received a BFA from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, in 2011,[6][7][8] and worked as a graphic designer before finding his first fine art representation and becoming a full-time fine artist.[9]

Career

San Francisco

Phillips was the third-place winner of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition in 2016.[10] The winning portrait titled “Eugene #4” was of a gentleman he met on the corner of Sixth and Mission Streets in San Francisco, a location he lived at early on in his career.[11] Between 2011 and 2017 Phillips drew more than 100 life-size portraits of his neighbors in San Francisco.[12] For Phillips, the focus on fringe populations represents “a visual record of my striving to recognize unknown and unnoticed individuals through the tip of my pencil.”[13]

Oklahoma

In 2017, Phillips moved to Oklahoma to participate in the Tulsa Artist Fellowship.[14] With this move, Phillips' work has expanded to explore questions behind how and why the neighborhoods his portraits came from became what they are today,. These recent works, depicting a range of historical material, are “a conscious re-examination of artistic culpability, historic ownership, and the hollowness of Western romanticization” and have been described as “seductive and terrifying." [15]

Exhibitions

Phillips’ work has been exhibited at galleries and institutions around the world, including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Tacoma Art Museum, The Art Museum of South Texas, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Ackland Art Museum, Gilcrease Museum and the Philbrook Museum of Art.[16][17] His work can be found in the public collections at the Denver Art Museum, Gilcrease Museum, West Collection and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.[18][19] 2018 saw the publication of Phillip’s first monograph with Paragon Press in Berkeley, California.[20]

In 2019 Phillips had his first solo museum exhibitions with a show at Philbrook Museum of Art in February and a show at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in March.[21][22]

Public Collections

References
  1. "Biography - Joel Daniel Phillips". Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  2. "Biography - Joel Daniel Phillips". Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  3. "Artsy - Joel Daniel Phillips' Disarming Portraits". Artsy. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  4. Gallery, Spoke (2016). Bad Dads: Art Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson. United States: Harry N Abrams. p. 252. ISBN 9781419720475.
  5. Gallery, Spoke (2016). Bad Dads: Art Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson. United States: Harry N Abrams. p. 252. ISBN 9781419720475.
  6. Phillips, Joel Daniel (2018). No Regrets in Life. United States: Paragon Press. p. 15. ISBN 9781732798014.
  7. "Alumnus Wins Prestigious National Award". 21 December 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  8. Gallery, Spoke (2016). Bad Dads: Art Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson. United States: Harry N Abrams. p. 252. ISBN 9781419720475.
  9. "Interview: Joel Daniel Phillips". Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  10. "Joel Daniel Phillips Goes in New Direction". Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  11. Phillips, Joel Daniel (2018). No Regrets in Life. United States: Paragon Press. p. 15. ISBN 9781732798014.
  12. Phillips, Joel Daniel (2018). No Regrets in Life. United States: Paragon Press. p. 15. ISBN 9781732798014.
  13. "Joel Daniel Phillips: Welcome to the Orange West". Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  14. "Tulsa Artist Fellowship Recipients". Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  15. "Potent drawings of atomic bomb test walk line between beauty and terror". Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  16. "Joel Daniel Phillips: Biography". Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  17. "Hashimoto Contemporary: Joel Daniel Phillips". Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  18. "Joel Daniel Phillips: Biography". Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  19. "Hashimoto Contemporary: Joel Daniel Phillips". Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  20. Phillips, Joel Daniel (2018). No Regrets in Life. United States: Paragon Press. ISBN 9781732798014.
  21. "Philbrook Museum to Show Larry Clark". Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  22. "Philbrook Museum of Art: Joel Daniel Phillips". Retrieved 22 July 2019.
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