January 18th, 2012
"Summer Sunday Afternoon" by Phillip Spinks. Acrylic on Canvas. Each Panel is 20" x 20" / Overall Dimension: 6' x 6'
Our next show at The FP3 Gallery welcomes local South End artist, Phillip Spinks. His show opens on January 18th, and a reception with the artist will take place on Thursday, February 2nd, from 6-8pm in The FP3 Gallery at FP3 Boston.
Phillip is best known for his abstract multi-layered paintings and has most recently found inspiration in what is lost or has been destroyed only to create new meaning in what remains. Hurricane Katrina, for example, has played a moving and inspirational influence on his recent work. Other influences are distilled from his sense of self, based on a southern heritage enhanced by his many travels and the cultures both urban and rural, which he has encountered. This history invoked with a vivid imagination creates images hauntingly surreal, yet vaguely familiar in the recesses of our primal memories.
He has been in numerous juried exhibitions throughout the US and his work is also in many private and public collections in Boston and beyond. Learn more about Phillip’s work here – and to learn more about FP3 Boston or tour our available Boston luxury condos, contact FP3 today.
A bit more about Phillip Spinks now exhibiting at the FP3 Gallery:
Phillip Spinks was born in Nurnburg, West Germany in 1972, and he has lived throughout the United States and Europe, from the mountainous deserts of the southwest to the Mississippi Gulf Coast and from deep in the Bavarian forests to Colonial New England. He studied engineering, creative writing and archaeology at Boston University.
He’s been a painter and printmaker living and working in Boston for more than ten years. He has his work in many public and private collections such as Merck & Co., Children’s Hospital and the Beal Corporation, and he’s been in numerous juried exhibitions and has shown throughout the United States and Germany.
His current body of work is about taking what is lost or destroyed and creating new meanings as well as anchoring what remains.
On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina struck both New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf coast. His parents’ and his grandmother’s homes were gutted by the storm surge of Katrina. Anything below three and a half feet was buried in sediment and debris. Ninety percent of his family photographs were completely destroyed. As his parents and he sifted through what was left of their home, they found items of their recent past. Broken china, splintered chairs, clothing and images lost in frames, melted by the ravages of the storm. What remained were fragments of memories, a face here, an arm draped over a shoulder, the edge of a building.
After smell, sight is the strongest sense linked to memory. Looking through photo albums and frames, the images both lost their meaning and sparked moments in times remembered.
He saw the austere beauty in the imagery that remained, and as opposed to allowing the loss of the images to create a void in his mind, he chose to reclaim these memories and create a new vehicle to contain them. This body of work is titled Recovering Memories.
Studio:
450 Harrison Ave.
#230
Boston, MA 02118
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