Isabelle Abbot & Frank Phillips at 3North

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ISABELLE ABBOT & FRANK PHILLIPS Exhibition at 3North MARCH 22, 2023 - APRIL 28, 2023

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Isabelle Abbot & Frank Phillips Current Exhibition at 3North Dear Friends of PBG, We are excited to share a new in-person exhibition for Page Bond Gallery, located at 4015 Fitzhugh Avenue, the home of the 3North Design Firm!

The current exhibition features paintings by Charlottesville artists, Isabelle Abbot and Frank Phillips and will remain up thru Friday, April 28th.

3North is happy to have visitors come by the 1st Floor gallery BY APPOINTMENT. Appointments can be made during the hours of Monday – Friday 10am – 5PM by emailing me at page@pagebondgallery.com, or calling me at (804) 357-7169. Other times may also be available.

Enjoy this exhibition catalog and please let us know if you have any thoughts or questions. Feel free to share the catalog link with others so we can spread the word about the exhibition.

We will be announcing many more events at 3North - art openings as well as artist talks - in the coming months, so stay tuned!

Thank you all again.

With kind regards, Page

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ISABELLE ABBOT Distant Showers, 2017 Oil on canvas 30 x 30 inches $3,800 INQUIRE 6

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ISABELLE ABBOT Spring Clarity, 2023 Oil on canvas 28 x 32 inches $3,800 INQUIRE 8

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ISABELLE ABBOT Arriving, 2023 Oil on canvas 46 x 32 inches SOLD 10

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ISABELLE ABBOT Rosie Sky and Rolling Hills, 2020 Oil on canvas 36 x 48 inches $6,600 INQUIRE 12

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ISABELLE ABBOT View Out to the Water, 2020 Oil on canvas 36 x 48 inches $6,600 INQUIRE 14

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ISABELLE ABBOT Artist Statement

Every painting is a series of questions I pose to myself, about the landscape, about my relationship to my environment, about the specificities of where I am. How does this moment feel? How does the atmosphere, the topography, the light affect me? How can I communicate these sensations honestly and clearly? The answers come through editing, through paring down and cutting out extraneous detail to discover what is essential about a place.

The answer also comes through using paint as an investigative tool that can take on the textures and colors of earth and sky, allowing me to reconstruct my surroundings on the canvas. All the work begins with direct observation and, by asking and answering questions, grows into a painting that does not illustrate but embodies the qualities of a particular moment in a particular landscape. I am a painter of a very specific region and I want my viewers to feel instinctively where these paintings come from. I am paying homage, as well as feeding my own need to be oriented, to be grounded, to know where I am and to feel connected to that place.

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ISABELLE ABBOT Abbreviated CV EDUCATION 2011 MFA Painting, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 2005 BA Studio Art, University of Virginia (with Distinction) SELECT EXHIBITIONS 2016 Westminster Canterbury, Richmond, VA Landing, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2015 Summer Scenes, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA 2014 Knowing A Place, Cleo Driver Miller Gallery, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA 2013 Surveying Light, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA J Fergeson Gallery, Farmville, VA Bridgewater College Gallery, Bridgewater, VA 2011 New Work, J Fergeson Gallery, Farmville, VA 2009 Homeland, J Fergeson Gallery, Farmville, VA 2008 Greenwood, The North Gallery, Crozet, VA Reminiscence, The Gallery at Fifth and Water, Charlottesville, VA 2007 Horizons II, The Gallery at Fifth and Water, Charlottesville, VA 2006 Ridgelines, The Mezzanine Gallery at New Dominion Bookshop, Charlottesville, VA AWARDS & HONORS 2013 “Best of Cville” award for Best Visual Artist SELECT COLLECTIONS University of Virginia Health Systems Capital One Dominion Energy Boar’s Head Keswick

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FRANK PHILLIPS Memo 2, 2017 Acrylic and pencil on canvas 70 x 52 inches SOLD 18

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FRANK PHILLIPS Roscoe, 2013 Acrylic and pencil on canvas 62 x 50 inches $7,000 INQUIRE 20

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FRANK PHILLIPS Mezz, 2019 Acrylic and graphite on paper 22 x 16 inches $1,250 framed INQUIRE 22

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FRANK PHILLIPS Smudge Pot, 2012 Acrylic and graphite on canvas 68 x 62 inches $9,000 INQUIRE 24

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FRANK PHILLIPS Artist Statement

My work uses a flat plane to convey the visual ideas of construction, mass, and volume. The formally arranged imagery is all invented, but takes cues from architecture and engineering (materials and the structures themselves), as well as the erosion and the decay of perceived ruin. The display of process is an integral component to the work; it tracks the time, mistakes, revisions, and the experience used to arrive to a resolved composition. The end results are pieces that embrace surface and relate the ideas of: the used, the weathered, the discarded, and the beaten. I aim to create a quiet calm to the work that is still able to convey a stoic presence.

At its core, the compositions are about physicality and decision making. The immediacy of drawing and painting allows me to attack spaces on the canvas. The size of the plane forces me to use my entire body; the act of painting, drawing, erasing, and sanding all require a certain balance of touch and force. One idea completion may necessitate removal, thereby initiating another physical activity. As an artist, I need the action, and the work needs to be work; the labor is chronicled in the surface as removed elements are never really gone, only ghosts of the materials’ (pencil, charcoal, and paint) permanence.

Compositions are constructed primarily with line. Line acts as a device for the illusion of suspension as well as enclosing or mapping a shape. There emerges a printmaking look to the surface (at times with embossed marks) achieved through rubbings and other treated materials. Subsequently, the compositions read as a sort of blueprint. The line-play between the “exact” straightedge is offset by the “imperfect” hand and creates a diagrammed visual tension. ​

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FRANK PHILLIPS Abbreviated CV EDUCATION MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art B.A., Hobart College, (High Honors) SELECT EXHIBITIONS 2023 Solo Exhibition, Quirk Gallery, Charlottesville, VA 2022 Solo Exhibition, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC “Color Notes,” Solo Exhibition, George Gallery, Charleston, SC 2021 POETS Group Exhibition, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA Selected Work, Two-Person Exhibition, Colthurst Gallery, Charlottesville, VA 2019 “Pentimento,” Solo Exhibition, Shockoe Artspace, Richmond, VA “Intro7,” Hidell Brooks, Charlotte, NC “Those Who Can,” Group Exhibition, Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN “Continuum,” Solo Exhibition, The George Gallery, Charleston, SC 2018 “Too Much of Too Much,” Juried Exhibition, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA SELECT COLLECTIONS U.S. Embassies, U.S. Department of State AWARDS & HONORS 2018 Juror Prize for FROM 500 SKETCHES*, “Too Much of Too Much” Exhibition, McLean Project for the Arts 2017 Olsson Sabbatica 2016 Cochran Mastership for Fine Arts for Excellence in Teaching 2014 Robert E. Latham Mastership for Excellence in Teaching 2013 Excellence in Teaching Art Mastership 2012 Cochran Mastership for Fine Arts for Excellence in Teaching 2009 Cochran Mastership for Fine Arts for Excellence in Teaching 2006 Excellence in Teaching Art Mastership 2005 Faculty Incentive Award for Excellence in Teaching 2002 Norman Farquhar and Gordon N. Farquhar Mastership for Excellence in Teaching 1997 Arthur Dove Award for Excellence in Studio Art

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ISABELLE ABBOT & FRANK PHILLIPS Current Exhibition at 3North

Catalog Design Rachel Crawford, Registrar For inquiries or to set up an appointment, please email us at page@pagebondgallery.com or rachel@pagebondgallery.com

PAGE BOND GALLERY 804-359-3633 pagebondgallery.com P.O. Box 14551, Richmond, VA 23221

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