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Front Cover Feature – Philadelphia Stories

I am honored to have my artwork featured on the cover of Philadelphia Stories for the Fall 2022 edition. My piece Celestial Vortex is also...

Healing Power of Art Award

I am pleased to have been selected to receive a Special Recognition Art Award from “The Healing Power of ART: Resilience 2022” exhibition. Following are excerpts...

Interviews

2016 Renee Phillips Interview 2013 Art Promotivate Interview 2013 Reiki Inspired Art Article  2013 Dynasty Brush Interview...

Figurative Leanings: Installment 9

When my son was in nursery school I decided to go back to school toward a Masters in Family Therapy at what was then Hahnemann...

The Next Stage: Installment 8

From the beginning I have always been awed by theater spaces. During elementary school assemblies I would stare at the layers of velvet curtains on...

Connecting Dots: Installment 7

RELATIONAL PROPERTY: a property that depends on a thing’s relationship to other things. While taking philosophy at Rice, I was intrigued with the concept of...

Fully Cooked: Installment #6

Through the years my paintings have been ‘fully cooked’ entities. Under-paintings (painted sketches) are sometimes spontaneously loose so I know I could work that way...

Installment Five: Draping Abstract Space

Texture, color, light, shadow, depth, food for thought: Mix all these ingredients into the stew and maybe the outcome is an overcooked mash.  Or maybe...

Approaching The Center – Installment 4

My masters thesis exhibit was called Approaching The Center. Each large canvas was entitled Center Space Variation and numbered. The average size was 5’ X...

Kitsch or Quiche? (third installment)

The atmosphere of UMASS’ MFA program took some getting used to. In a school of 25,000 students there were only five painting candidates admitted per...

Still The Beginning (second installment)

At Rice my interests outside of art were developing. Among them were classical music and philosophy.  I also had wonderful art history classes, and during...

The Beginning

It’s the 40th anniversary of my MFA in painting from UMASS, and while living and working very much in the present I think it is...

Welcome, Springtime in January Exhibit

Welcome to my new site! I’ll be giving updates regularly, posting on my blog. For today, all I want to say is cruise around and...

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