Ars Moriendi 2.0: Brad Phillips on Heaven’s Gate
Brad Phillips muses on the Heaven’s Gate mass suicide as a piece of folk American installation art
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Philip Seymour Hoffman in Hindsight: An Essay by Brad Phillips
PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 ESSAY BY BRAD PHILLIPS ILLUSTRATION BY PIERCE MCGARRY Philip Seymour Hoffman died 896 days ago as of today. Soon after his death I learned he was something I’m all too familiar with—an opiate addict. Philip Seymour Hoffman played out a classic…
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Brad Phillips: Bullshit Both Talks & Walks
Brad Phillips’ photorealistic and text-based paintings are autobiographical, figuring his wife in intimate moments, or depicting various phrases that might amuse or terrify him. These are confessional works, expressing dread, absurdity and the complexity of love and domesticity. In turns provocative and erotic, or dad-jokey and…
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Antemortem Glory: An Essay by Brad Phillips
PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 15 WRITTEN BY BRAD PHILLIPS Two Acrobats, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1932-33 There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free. –…
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A Conversation with Cristine Brache
Pretty, Little, Thing (Castigada), bone china, silicone, perspex, dried lavender, 2016 INTERVIEW BY ZOE KOKE In ppants (for Brad), we see the legs of a woman. Cristine Brache stands in faded blue denim pants before a wood cabinet. Her hands rest calmly at her sides.…
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Sympathy for the Forger: An Essay by Brad Phillips
PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 14 BY BRAD PHILLIPS In the May 2014 issue of Modern Painters, I wrote an article called “The Quotational Pandemic” in which I attempted to address the slew of painters I saw at that time (art being so terribly boring and unoriginal…
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Review: Intensive Nesting
BY JESSICA KIRSH Tiziana La Melia Innocent Oyster, 2015, 27″ × 29″, Watercolour, flashe, collage on waterjetcut aluminium, LED lights The left column recites a list of debris that author Jane Bennett found in the grate over a storm drain on Cold Spring Lane in…
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A Week of Canadian Painting: Brad Phillips
Because we are a Canadian-run publication and we admire those who continue to work with the arguably dated medium of paint, in the arguably dismal landscape of the Canadian art-world, we have decided to do a week-long feature on some of our favorite current Canadian…
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A Week of Canadian Painting: Jay Isaac
Because we are a Canadian-run publication and we admire those who continue to work with the arguably dated medium of paint, in the arguably dismal landscape of the Canadian art-world, we have decided to do a week-long feature on some of our favorite current Canadian…
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Shitty Genius: An Essay by Brad Phillips
SHITTY GENIUS AN ESSAY BY BRAD PHILLIPS PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 12 I am writing in this fashion, where I’m referring to myself, because it allows me to tell you that it’s possible I have been told I am a genius. And that it’s…
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Mark Delong: Essay by Brad Phillips
PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 11 “When this sky is dead, will they give us a new one?” – Martin Amis, Einstein’s Monsters Imagine, because at times it might seem terribly appealing, that art was obliterated by a holocaust of unspeakable and nefarious dimensions.…
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