Beschreibung:
The paintings in this book draw from a vast trove of cultural detritus ? the tongue-in-cheek slogans of bumper stickers and needlepoint pillows to the sardonic quips of a misanthrope ? Phillips toys with the disjuncture between his phrases and their visual representation, combining commercial fonts, brightly colored words, and faux ransom lettering with sordid messages of sex, suicide, inadequacy, and self-degradation.00Marked by a wry penchant for the disconcerting and a proclivity for the absurd, Brad Phillips works somewhere between text and image, striving for the immediacy of both. His wordplay precipitates varied meanings, creating slippage and dissonance between interpretations. For Phillips, text becomes image, and image becomes text