Curtis Phillips’ work is represented in collections in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom and United States.
ONE PERSON MUSEUM EXHIBIT
1998 Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Connecticut College,
Imaginary Landscapes, New London, CT
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 Christopher Hill Gallery, St Helena, CA
2022 Big Sky Harlem Gallery Pop Up, New York, NY
2021 Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Christopher Hill, St. Helena, CA
2019 Barba Contemporary, Palm Springs, CA
2018 Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Barba Contemporary, Palm Springs, CA
2014 Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 Seek Art, New York, NY
2012 Graeter Gallery, Portland, OR
2011 Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA
2010 Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Beverly Hills, Ca
2007 Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Beverly Hill, CA
2006 Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Bangkok, Thailand
2006 Cheryl Hazan Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA
2004 Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Recent Paintings, Portland, OR
2003 Timothy Yarger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002 Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Fieldwork, Portland, OR
2002 Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Arboreal, Portland, OR
2001 Timothy Yarger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001 Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Miniatures, Portland, OR
2000 Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Contemporary Landscape Paintings, Beverly Hills, CA
2000 Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Lambent: New Paintings, Portland, OR
1999 Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA
1999 Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Atmospherics, Portland, OR
1999 O’Hara Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Miniatures, Portland, OR
1998 Christy Stubbs Gallery, Dallas, TX
1997 O’Hara Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
1996 Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Introduction, Portland, OR
1995 Jamison Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1993 Several Thoughts Gallery, Seattle, WA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Lyman-Allyn Museum, Connecticut College, New London, Conn.
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, Oregon
Philip Morris Inc., New York, New York
Peter Klein Collection, Nussdorf, Germany
Ashforth Pacific, Portland, Oregon
Campfire Audio, Portland, Oregon
Nicolas Cage, Los Angeles, California
Denzel Washington, Los Angeles, California
Madeleine Stowe, Los Angeles, California
John Milius, Los Angeles, California
Hanlon Brown Design, Portland, Oregon
Strobe Zine and Assoc., Vancouver, Washington
TV & FILM
2014 Horrible Bosses 2
2013 PlayStation 4 Super Bowl Commercial
2003 Nicolas Cage Interview / Barbara Walters Special
2000 The Family Man
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
D.K. Row. "Cloudy skies...", Oregonian, August 24, 2004
Richard Speer. Willamette Week, December 11, 2002
D.K. Row. "Review", Oregonian, December 5, 2002
Camilla Raymond. "Subtle landscapes of the subconscious", Oregonian, July 19, 2000
Jay Bowyer Bell. Review Magazine, April 1, 1999
D.K. Row. "Phillips on Phillips" , Oregonian, June 14, 1999
Toni Hulse. "Imaginary Landscapes", Lyman Allyn Museum catalogue for exhibition, October 3 - December 31, 1998
Christine Temin. "'Lost' finds way with Nature", The Boston Globe, April 8, 1998
Jamie James. The New Yorker, September 22, 1997
Gregory Tozian. "Brave new worlds: Curtis Phillips gets ready to paint New York red", Anodyne Magazine, September 1997
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Christopher Hill Gallery, St. Helena, CA
2022 Timothy Yarger Fine Arts, Los Angeles, Ca
2021 Christopher Hill Gallery, St. Helena, CA
2021 Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020 Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Los Angeles, Ca
2019 Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 Barba Contemporary, Palm Springs, CA
2017 Timothy Yarger Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Cheryl Hazan Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Yarger Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA
2015 Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 Seek Art, New York, NY
2014 Graeter Gallery, Portland, OR
2012 Yarger Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA
2012 Cheryl Hazan Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Graeter Gallery, Portland, OR
2011 Affordable Art Fair, Yarger Fine Art, New York, NY
2011 LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Cheryl Hazan Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Red Show, Cheryl Hazan Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, IL
2010 Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Los Angeles Art Show, Presented by the Fine Art Dealers Association, Benefiting the Art Museum Council of LACMA
2006 Los Angeles Art Show, Presented by the Fine Art Dealers
2004 Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Western Perspectives, Vancouver, BC
2004 Los Angeles Art Show, Presented by the Fine Art Dealers
2003 Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Bangkok, Thailand
2002 Charles Hespe Gallery, Springscapes, San Francisco, CA
1998 New Art Center, Newton, MA, Lost in the Woods: Foliage and Form at the Turn of the Century, curated by Randi Hopkins, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
1998 Miami Art Fair ‘98, O’Hara Gallery, Miami, FL
1998 Art Dealer’s of America Art Fair, Armory, New York, NY
1997 O’Hara Gallery, Winter Invitational: Seven Artists, New York
1997 Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery
1997 Seattle Art Fair ‘97, Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA
1996 Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Triton Contemporary Art Fair, Triton Hotel, San Francisco, CA
1995 Portland Art Museum, Oregon Biennial, juried by William Fagley, Portland, OR
1995 Jamison Thomas Gallery, Fifteen Years, closing show, Portland, OR
1994 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1993 Friesen Gallery, Visual Sound III, Seattle, WA
“The aura of apocalypse reminiscent of J.M.W. Turner”
It is tempting to categorize Curtis Phillips’ art as –simply as – a continuation of the great tradition of landscape painting. We are led to this easy conclusion by the obvious debt Phillips’ work owes to everything from mid-17th century Dutch landscape (Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan van Goyen, Salomon van Ruisdael, Philips Koninck) to early Barbizon (Georges Michel, Theodore Rousseau) to German romantic painters (Caspar David Friedrick, Arnold Bocklin) to the painters of the American West (Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, Frederick Edwin Church)—and for that matter, the American East (the Hudson River School, the Luminists) – and even “postmodern” landscapists such as April Gornik, Anselm Kiefer, and Gerhard Richter. But Phillips’ painting is no more bound by its models than its models were and are bound by theirs.
His work embodies intellectual and spiritual pretensions that expand far beyond self-conscious historicism. Phillips’ landscapes mean something more than landscape.
At the same time, these landscape paintings mean “landscape” so emphatically, so palpably, so wholly, that, if anything, they obviate their artistic roots in their search for transcendence. Phillips may work with foreknowledge of Ruisdael, Rousseau, and Richter; but, encouraged (and technically influenced) as he may be by their models, they do not at basis motivate him. Rather, it is the landscape itself – the visual/physical presence of landscape and the very idea of landscape – that motivates Phillips to paint landscapes, and to paint them as he does.
Peter Frank, LA Weekly, Angeleno
Curtis Phillips is a contemporary artist who has pioneered a genre of painting all his own. Drawing on the work of the abstract expressionists such as Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning, Phillips works with large monochromatic color fields. But unlike the abstract expressionists, who emphasized spontaneous, automatic or subconscious creation, Phillips approaches his canvases with the distinct intent of painting space, controlling his brushwork and pigment in a focused exploration of light, shadow and the finest gradations of color.
Timothy Yarger Fine Arts, Beverly Hills, Bangkok
“The pictorial emphasis on the earth as a mineral world mirrors Phillips’ conceptual emphasis on painting as a material act, an act of making pictures—and in the act, perhaps finding them—rather than presenting them.”
