Noah Travis Phillips "Unsolicited Collaboration(s)"
w/ David Gilbert / @davygilby
Rema Hort Mann Foundation - @remahortmannfoundation
Dec 9 – Jan 22, 2012
House & Garden
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery @klausgallery
October 26 - December 23, 2018
unsolicited collaboration
My studio is a world I control, a place resembling a laboratory or stage where I choose what to make, what to celebrate, give them importance and stature and to memorialize that which could be easily overlooked. Like their materials, my assemblages similarly “want” to be noticed and taken seriously.
my studio becomes a place where fragile and unconventionally beautiful forms (images) are given the space to take root. It becomes a place to examine and celebrate the unusual.
representational strategy of oscillation and difference; their subjects are hard to pin down.
the studio becomes a small ecosystem of its own. Material objects develop, grow, occupy space, inhabit their environment, fall apart, die, and regenerate in different guises.
This artificial imagery brings with it a strange idea of nature: its cultural gendering as both feminine and fragile: the messy eco-system of my studio relating to the precariousness of environmental change in the Anthropocene.