Brad Phillips Does What He Wants

I'm going to make it a point not to fish around for articles on Brad Phillips. I wouldn't want to come across anything that so much as whispers the words "post-modern" in regards to his work, because I am really liking Brad Phillips right now. I'm going to assume that BP makes paintings out of a real devotional love of the image he solidifies in paint. So what if someone else, someone far more famous and canonized by history, already painted it? He likes it a lot, why not paint it again? So what if it is a cultural cliché that can easy be achieved with a magazine and a glue stick, I like the way ransom-style cutout messages look too. And so fucking what if this painting is of a seminal graphic design motif that has been published by the millions? Those rainbow stripes fucking rock, and Brad Phillips knows it. Winona never looked better.


We're Not Dead


Unknown Painting


Untitled


Private Study


Picnic for One


Ms. Ryder


If I Had a Pseudonym


Discouraging Letter


Dear Anxiety


Balanced Conditions


After Carlo


Youth in Asia


2003-7