Staff Show
New York Exhibition 27 July–6 August
Urge. Creation. Personalities. Tastemakers. New York Staff Show
The outsider often doesn’t realize the inextricable link between the art professional and the art maker. Whether the aesthetics-driven world of an international auction house attracts personalities already in the habit of artistic creation, or reveals in the individual a latent desire to create is debatable. Regardless, the closer one looks, the clearer it becomes that the urge exists in most of our colleagues, from specialists to business administrators. The Staff Show is a peek into the artistic selves of the tastemakers at Phillips, uncovering the synergy between and among artists, art professionals, and the global art world that is particular to the industry. Conceived of and executed by the employees of our New York office, the works encompass photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, and new media, by established and new artists alike. Phillips is pleased to present our very own employees in this annual exhibition.
Holden Babcock Untitled, 2016 Sheetrock, plaster, oil paint 36” x 48”
Richard Berardino 1) LABOAOTG-3; 2) LABOAOTG-5, 2016 Oil on Canvas 1) 48” x 48”; 2) 48” x 48” www.richardberardino.com
Patrick Brennan Ice Storm, 2016 Flashe, acrylic and silk on canvas 14” x 11”
Rachel Daley Untitled, 2012 Ball point pen on Bristol board 12” x 16”
Ricardo Jean 1) A Day at Bayside; 2) Big Bad Wolf ; 3) Chiaroscuro Study #01; 4) Chiaroscuro Study #06; 5) Knight Rider Caricature; 6) Not the Mama!; 7) Pinocchio; 8) Prince Tribute; 9) Selena; 10) Sprite Bottle Drawing; 11) The Freshest House Party; 12) The Greatest of All Time, 1) 2015; 2) 2015; 3) 2013; 4) 2015; 5) 2016; 6) 2015; 7) 2016; 8) 2016; 9) 2015; 10) 2014; 11) 2015; 12) 2016 1) Prismacolor Markers and Micron Pen on Marker Paper; 2) Prismacolor Markers and Micron Pen on Watercolor Paper; 3) Conte Crayons on Black Drawing paper; 4) Conte Crayons on Black Drawing paper; 5) Prismacolor Pencils on Black Drawing paper; 6) Prismacolor Markers on Marker paper; 7) Prismacolor Markers and Micron Pen on Watercolor Paper; 8) Prismacolor Pencils on Black Drawing paper; 9) Prismacolor Markers, Micron Pen, and White China Marker on Marker Paper; 10) Prismacolor Markers and White China Marker on Marker Paper; 11) Prismacolor Markers and Micron Pen on Marker Paper; 12) Prismacolor Pencils on Black Drawing paper 1) 8” x 11”; 2) 7” x 10”; 3) 12” x 9”; 4) 12” x 9”; 5) 9” x 12” 6) 7” x 10”; 7) 8” x 11”; 8) 9” x 12”; 9) 8” x 11”; 10) 8” x 11”; 11) 8” x 11”; 12) 9” x 12” Ricardo Jean is an Illustrator from Brooklyn, and graduated from Brooklyn College with a Bachelors of Arts degree in 2010. His preferred mediums are graphite pencils, Conté crayon, Micron Pen, and Prismacolor Markers and Prismacolor Pencils.His art draws inspiration from aspects of pop culture, namely from his childhood, and his personal interests. His interests in animation, comic books, and video games have helped shape his artistic expression. His goal as an artist is to express who he is completely while simultaneously allowing his audience to walk away from their viewing experience with a sense of connectedness and nostalgia.
Harris Johnson 1) Socks n’ Birkenstocks; 2) Star;
1) Oil on canvas; 2) Oil on canvas;
3) Grumpy; 4) Sunset/ Tunnel; 5)
3) Oil on canvas; 4) Water mixable and
Mommy; 6) Coffee Cup (Our pleasure
oil on canvas; 5) Oil on canvas; 6) Oil
to serve you); 7) Grimy NYC; 8) Bird/
on canvas; 7) Oil on canvas; 8) Oil on
Spirit; 9) Roach; 16) Fire/Pizza;17)
canvas; 9) Enamel and oil on canvas;
Water Jug; 20) Flower, 1) 2015; 2)
16) Oil on canvas; 17) Oil on Canvas;
2016; 3) 2016; 4) 2015; 5) 2016; 6)
20) Oil on canvas
2015; 7) 2015; 8) 2015; 9) 2016; 16)
1) 20”x16”; 2) 16”x20”; 3) 16”x20”;
2014; 17) 2016 20) 2016
4) 16”x20” 5) 16”x20”; 6) 20”x16”; 7) 16”x20”; 8) 18”x24”; 9) 16”x20”; 16) 18”x24”; 17) 20”x16”; 20) 20”x16”
Barrett Langlinais Untitled, 2016 Colored pencil on paper 8.5� x 5.5�
Cary Leibowitz PLEASE DON’T TELL ANYONE YOU SAW ME, 2016 Latex on wood 15” x 9.5”
Selina Yunqing Lin Self Portrait, 2014 Acrylic on wood 14” x 11”
Jon Lutz An Island, 2015 Gouache and collage on panel 12” x 9” Jon Lutz is the director of 106 Green, a gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Liia Magi 1) Last Night In Havana; 2) Plaza Vieja; 3) Street Performers in Old Havana, 2015 1) Pen and Ink on Paper; 2) Pen and Ink on Paper; 3) Pen and Ink and Watercolor on Paper 1) 11.8” x 9”; 2) 11.8” x 9”; 3) 11.8” x 9” Born and raised in Tallinn, Estonia, Liia started drawing as soon as she could get her hands on a pencil, and never stopped. Since then, life has taken her to twenty-two countries on three different continents, with more travels ahead. After arriving in New York City, she completed her BFA degree in Communications Design at Pratt Institute in 2012. Liia has since been illustrating and designing for clients such as Saatchi & Saatchi, Dylan’s Candy Bar and Phillips Auctions.
Garry Nichols Map of Greenpoint, 2016 Collage, pencil, charcoal on hemp colored paper 25� x 19.5�
Jason E Osborne 1) Spider Hug; 2) 1 Less Mystery, 2016 1) Acrylic on Canvas; 2) Mixed Media 1) 11” x 9”; 2) Dimensions vary
James Reeder 1) Object 33; 2) Object 35; 3) Object 36; 4) Object 38, 2016 Gelatin silver print 1) 14” x 10”; 2) 10” x 14”; 3) 14” x 10”; 4) 10” x 14”
Robert Rogan 1) Untitled (portrait); 2) Untitled, 2016 1) Pencil on Paper; 2) Pen on Paper (two portraits on the front and back of the paper) 1) 6” x 3.75”; 2) 4.5” x 2.75”
Bryan Rosado The Wreck Room, 2011 Archival Pigment Print 16” x 20”
Ryan Russo 1) Death Becomes Her 2, 2) Requiem for a Dream 2, 3) Altered States 1, 2014 each VHS videotape (transfer) and acrylic on canvas each 18 x 22 in.
Alexis Sabater Stickball Dreams, 2016 Rubber, foam, glue, paint on canvas 24” x 30” Born in Puerto Rico, raised in NYC. A sports enthusiast that believes in the Positive Power of Play while seeking to represent the power of position in the ever changing landscape in sports.
Pablo Serrano-Otero Luquillo, Dorado, Toa Baja (Triptych), 2013 Archival Pigment Print 15.25” x 12.25” x 2” (Individual) 51.75” x 12.25” x 2” (Combined) Pablo Serrano is an artist born and raised in Puerto Rico who, upon starting formal studies in architecture, developed an affinity for geometry, light, and materiality, qualities that he kept exploring moving on to the photographic medium for his Bachelors of Fine Arts in the Savannah College of Art and Design. Transplanted and backtracking his identity, Pablo applies the formal qualities of large format architectural photography onto structures that were once common to him, extracting the visual dialect of the people that inhabit and design them as they live.
Catherine Shi Untitled, 2016 Archival pigment on enhanced matte paper 16� x 20�
Eli Show Crop Circles, 2016 Laser Cut Diptych 16” x 20” each
Emily Sinclair 1) Piazza dei Signori, Padova; 2) Padova; 3) Venezia, 2010 Intaglio Etching 1) 7 3/4” x 9 1/ 2”; 2) 7 3/4” x 9 1/ 2”; 3) 7 3/4” x 9 1/ 2” Emily Sinclair was educated at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She has been living and working in New York since 2013.
Carolina Swan 1) Poison Ivy; 2) Dawn Wiener, 2013 1) Gouache and Pen on Paper, framed, 2) Gouache and Pen on Paper, framed 1) 12” x 18”; 2) 12” x 18” I always describe my work as “girly kitschy art”. Kitsch has almost a negative meaning as “poor taste”. As a fan of John Waters, poor taste to me is good taste. I don’t want to follow rules of what others consider as art. I want to do art that I myself want on my walls and that I’m proud of. I am inspired by all sorts of culture from fairy tales, punk rock music, old cartoons, travel, carnivals, tattoos and my Mexican background. I began painting with my younger brother, Dave in Seattle in the early 2000’s. In this time I developed a love for gouache, an opaque water color. I adore how there could be various shades of a color in a single stroke.I have always been drawn to female leads or strong female roles. In these two painting, Poison Ivy is the bass player for the Cramps, a Psychobilly band from the 70’s and yet she steals the show with her eccentric stage outfits and presence. Dawn Wiener, is the protagonist of Todd Soldonz’s classic film, Welcome to the Dollhouse. And it’s a coming of age story that shines the light of dark side of junior high. It is isn’t all football games, pom poms and school spirit.
Jon Thies 1) Red Machines; 2) Hell House, 2016 1) Granite, metal, and rubber; 2) Acrylic paint, sheetrock, wall plaster mounted to canvas 1) 4” x 16”; 2) 36” x 120”
Jamie Timms Repeater (Diptych), 2016 Acrylic on solar panel, custom electronics, digital file 160 x 120 cm. (62 7/8 x 47 1/4 in.) In the depths of the digital age where the internet is infinite and rarity obsolete, the works of the series are concerned with time and space, connecting the past, present and future and arguably, returning to the origins of painting. British-born Jamie Timms has lived in Europe, Japan and California, and is New York-based. He received his Master’s in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2010) and Bachelor’s in Fine Art from the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco (2005).
Jeff Velazquez 1) Untitled; 2) Bunny Secret Society; 3) Internet Search; 4) Self-Portrait as Pigasus, 2016 1) pencil, gouache on paper; 2) pencil on paper; 3) pencil, silk-screen ink, China Marker, colored pencil on paper; 4) pencil, colored pencil, gouache on paper 1) Sheet 9 3/4” x 7 1/ 2”. Frame 12 3/4” x 10”; 2) Sheet 30” x 22 1/ 2”. Frame 36 1/4” x 28 1/8”; 3) Sheet 22 1/ 2”x 30”. Frame 25”x 32 1/ 2”; 4) Sheet 9 3/4”x 7 1/4”. Frame 14 3/4”x 11 3/4” In Kindergarten, I was attacked by a teacher’s aide who wouldn’t be let near children today but in the MEAN 1970’s, it was more than socially acceptable to beat kids with impunity. And what, do you ask, was my crime? Drawing! I was violently pulled away from what was surely a masterpiece, dragged before the headmaster, and denounced for wanting to do nothing but draw all day. My sweet, kind German teacher wouldn’t be given over to such hysteria and instructed that I be left with her. My German was excellent back then but has long since faded and yet, despite all that trauma, I still occasionally draw today.
Photography. Painting. Drawing. New Media. New York
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