Artist Information:
Philip Hale
Wilmington, Oh
United States
Tel: 937/382-2200
Member Since: Jul 2003
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Artist Statement:
It seems I have always been
bothered by my own personal
limitations, (intellectual,
emotional, spiritual,
physical, etc.). I’m not sure
if this is some form of
Awareness- or just poor
self-image, but I think my
feeling of personal limitation
is an important reason why I
paint. I understand...
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Artist Exhibitions:
"Realism and Its Discontents:
Midwest Paint Group with
Gabriel Laderman", Robert and
Elaine Stein Galleries- Wright
State University (Dayton),
March 25- May 6, 2011
Bowery Gallery, New York, 2011
National Juried Exhibition,
July-August, painting “Bajo
Piuses Buildings”.
"The Figure", a Midwest paint
Group Exhibition, Leedy
Voulkos Art Center, Kansas...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
Although Philip Hale’s
expressionist process is not
like that of the cubist
Jacques Villon, or the slower,
more graphic process of
Bernard Buffet, his work, in
general shares qualities with
both of them. There is a very
solid Cubist underpinning to
everything. Planar effects and
a tangle of linear ...
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It seems I have always been bothered by my own personal limitations, (intellectual, emotional, spiritual, physical, etc.). I’m not sure if this is some form of Awareness- or just poor self-image, but I think my feeling of personal limitation is an important reason why I paint. I understand that painting can serve as a formal and ritualistic way in dealing with limitation through a measured use and organization of visual borders and complimentary elements.
I have early gravitated towards representational painting and a subject matter and form of a certain beauty which normally involves relationships between natural and man-made objects and forms. I work from the traditional subject genres, (landscape, still life, figurative compositions, studies from the old masters), in part to be able to concentrate on formal relationships. I appreciate representational painting for its potential to find a tension between the subject and formal considerations. The best paintings for me take advantage of plasticity, which I understand to be the dynamic tension between the 2-dimensional material format and the 3-dimensional idea portrayed.
Drawing remains for me the central and key activity in the art of painting. For a number of years I have felt... |
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