| Matt Phillips | ||
| Birth Date: 1927 |
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| A painter, printmaker and teacher, Matt Phillips was born in New York City and studied at the University of Chicago, Stanford University and the Barnes Foundation.
Matt Phillips’ entire body of work is marked by innovation. Throughout four decades of producing art, he has been consistently driven to create new possibilities for expression. Uniquely Phillips’ quest for novelty has been practiced within one medium: printmaking. Monotype remains the medium for which Phillips is best known. While he has produced work in a variety of printmaking techniques, the majority of his oeuvre has been produced in the monotype medium. A placid Montana landscape is created with fluid lines of color while a bustling New York street scene is brought to life with painterly bursts. This tension finds reflection in his personal life as well. The artist frequently travels to exotic locations around the world in search of new visual stimuli, but yet returns to his secluded Montana home every summer. Phillips translates each location into unique artworks that convey a remarkable sense of place.
What is a monotype? A monotype is more a drawing than a print. The artist draws on a non-absorbent surface (such as copper or plexiglass) in watercolor or oil, and the puts the plate through a printing press transferring the image to a sheet of paper. Because there is no image in the plate the print is unique, a single impression or monotype. Sometimes there is enough ink or a second printing from the plate. If that is printed, it is always considerable lighter than the first printing and is referred to as a “ghost” impression.
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