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Artist Exhibitions:
"Works from Perception: Recent
Paintings from the Midwest
Paint Group", Sheldon Swope
Museum of Art, Terre Haute,
IL; Feb. 6- March 14; first
stop of traveling exhibition
also to be shown at The
Albrect Kemper Museun in St.
Joseph, MO in Sept., 2009, and
the Spiva Art Center in
Joplin...
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Artist Reviews:
Although Philip Hale’s
expressionist process is not
like that of the cubist
Jacques Villon, or the slower,
more graphic process of
Bernard Buffet, his work, in
general shares qualities with
both of them. There is a very
solid Cubist underpinning to
everything. Planar effects and
a tangle of linear ...
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Artist Statement for Philip Hale
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It seems I have always been bothered by my own personal limitations, (intellectual, emotional, spiritual, physical, etc.). I’m not sure if this is some form of Awareness- or just poor self-image, but I think my feeling of personal limitation is an important reason why I paint. I understand that painting can serve as a formal and ritualistic way in dealing with limitation through a measured use and organization of visual borders and complimentary elements.
I have early gravitated towards representational painting and a subject matter and form of a certain beauty which normally involves relationships between natural and man-made objects and forms. I work from the traditional subject genres, (landscape, still life, figurative compositions, studies from the old masters), in part to be able to concentrate on formal relationships. I appreciate representational painting for its potential to find a tension between the subject and formal considerations. The best paintings for me take advantage of plasticity, which I understand to be the dynamic tension between the 2-dimensional material format and the 3-dimensional idea portrayed.
Drawing remains for me the central and key activity in the art of painting. For a number of years I have felt that my drawings have been more successful than my paintings. It seems to me that drawings can often more clearly show both a main form simultaneously with the smaller details and ideas without loosing the unity and energy in the picture. I believe my more recent paintings are becoming more successful in organizing color and achieving the qualities found in drawing.
I currently have paint studios in Ohio and in Costa Rica. For several years now I have worked part of the year as a certification inspector for the organic food industry, which is how I earn my main income. Living in Costa Rica with my wife, Yamile´Soto, now allows me to afford to paint for at least 6 months of the year with less distraction.
I associate my work as a part of a larger figurative painting movement taking place throughout the World. More specifically, I see that my work fits within a contemporary school of painting recently described by Gabriel Laderman as Post Abstract Figuration because it deals with issues of representation through a perspective of cubist and abstract analysis. I am a member of the Midwest Paint Group, whose work can be viewed at the website: www.midwest-paint-group.org. I studied with Stanley Lewis at the Kansas City Art Institute. I recognize painting as a collaboration effort between the old masters, teachers, and students borrowing and stealing from one another.
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